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----- Submission 1 (Tue Apr 05 12:58:39 GMT 2005) -----
  Phase II Proposal 10467 (sgr1806_2) successfully submitted.


----- Submission 2 (Wed Apr 06 15:40:16 GMT 2005) -----
  Phase II Proposal 10467 (sgr1806_2b) successfully submitted.
----- Submission 3 (Fri Apr 08 08:48:31 GMT 2005) -----

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----- Submission 1 (Thu Feb 10 18:42:00 GMT 2005) -----
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----- Submission 3 (Thu Feb 10 18:59:23 GMT 2005) -----
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----- Submission 4 (Thu Feb 10 18:59:49 GMT 2005) -----
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      <Abstract>On 2004 December 27, the ``magnetar'' candidate SGR1806-20 experienced a giant flare, the third detected from Soft Gamma-ray Repeaters since 1979 (GCN Circulars #2920, #2922). This was by far the most luminous flare ever observed from a Galactic high energy source (more than 10^46 erg/s). Following this event, SGR1806-20 was observed and detected in the radio band (GCN # 2928, #2930) and resolved into two parts: a point-like and a diffuse component. Our team, based on the radio 
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