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GCN Circular 16698

Subject
GRB 140817A draft circular on nearby galaxy
Date
2014-08-17T16:46:49Z (10 years ago)
From
Jay R. Cummings at NASA/GSFC/Swift <james.r.cummings@nasa.gov>
GRB 140817A Close to nearby galaxy

J. R. Cummings, K. L. Page (U Leicester) on behalf of the Swift science team:

We note the presence of a low-redshift galaxy in DSS, SDSS, 2MASS (SIMBAD) whose
center is 98 arcseconds from the center of the Swift-XRT refined position error
circle (Osborne, GCN Circ. # 16697), MCG+10-12-141 at z ~ 0.018368. The angular
size of the galaxy is about 0.8 arcmin.
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