HETE-2 Localization and Observations of the Short, Hard Gamma-Ray Burst GRB020531

D. Q. Lamb, G. R. Ricker, J. -L. Atteia +44

The {\it HETE-2} (hereafter \HETE) French Gamma Telescope (FREGATE) and the Wide-field X-ray Monitor (WXM) instruments detected a short ($t_{50}=360$ msec in the FREGATE 85-300 k…