ar X iv : a st ro - p h / 99 03 15 6 v 1 1 0 M ar 1 99 9 RXTE All - Sky Monitor Localization of SGR 1627 – 41

The fourth unambiguously identified Soft Gamma Repeater (SGR), SGR 1627–41, was discovered with the BATSE instrument on 15 June 1998. Interplanetary Network measurements and BATSE data constrained the location of this new SGR to a 6 segment of a narrow (19) annulus (Hurley et al. 1999c; Woods et al. 1998). The All-Sky Monitor (ASM) on RXTE observed two bursts from this source. We use the ASM data to further constrain the source location to a 5 long segment of the BATSE/IPN error box. The ASM error box lies within 0.3 of the supernova remnant (SNR) G337.0–0.1. The probability that a SNR would fall so close to the error box purely by chance is ∼ 5%. An association between these two objects would be consistent with the current understanding of SGR origins: that they are young neutron stars near the remnants of the supernova explosions where they were born. Subject headings: gamma rays: bursts – X-rays: bursts – stars: neutron