GCN Circular 11449
Subject
GRB 101213: object within the X-ray error circle
Event
Date
2010-12-13T12:06:44Z (16 years ago)
From
Daniele Malesani at Dark Cosmology Centre, Niels Bohr Inst <malesani@dark-cosmology.dk>
D. Malesani and A. de Ugarte Postigo (DARK/NBI), report:
We notice the presence of an object within the error circle of the X-ray
afterglow of GRB 101213 (Sakamoto et al., GCN 11448; see also
http://www.swift.ac.uk/sper/). The object is visible in the DSS as well
in gri images of the SDSS. It is classified as a galaxy in the SDSS
catalog. The coordinates are:
RA(J2000) = 16:05:15.20
Dec(J2000) = 21:53:49.2
Magnitudes from the SDSS are (AB):
g = 22.07 +- 0.09
r = 21.22 +- 0.07
i = 21.12 +- 0.12
Despite the bad visibility of this GRB right now, the field will be
observable from the Northern hemisphere in a couple of weeks. Given the
brightness of the potential host galaxy, and hence the likely low
redshift, a search for an associated SN may be attempted (also to
confirm the object as the GRB host).