{
  "bibcode": "1999GCN...335....1B",
  "body": "Optical Report: Fast X-ray Transient from BeppoSAX\n\nJ. S. Bloom, S. R. Kulkarni, S. G. Djorgovski (Caltech) and D. A. Frail\n(NRAO) report on behalf of the larger Caltech-NRAO-CARA GRB collaboration:\n\n\"We have examined the Digital Sky Survey at the position of the radio\nsource reported by Frail et al. (GCN #334) found in the error circle of\nSAX J0835.9+5118 (GCN #333). An astrometric plate solution for the\nfield was obtained using the USNO A2.0 Catalogue with an r.m.s.\nuncertainty of 0.23 arcsec (ra) and 0.26 arcsec (dec).  Near the\nposition of the radio source is a faint source, probably a galaxy with\nR ~ 19.5.  The centroid position of this optical source is\nRA: 08h36m1s.1, Dec:  51o17'06\".9 (J2000) which is ~3.5 arcsec to the East and \n~1.5 arcsec to the North of the radio position.  Though the radio source appears\nto be offset from the galaxy, given the uncertainties in the absolute\nposition of the radio source we cannot rule out the possibility that\nthe radio source is in the nucleus of the galaxy.\"\n\nA finding chart can obtained at:\n\n     http://astro.caltech.edu/~jsb/XRB990520/\n\nThis message can be cited.\n\n\n[GCN OP NOTE (21May99):  This circular was adjusted (at the author's request)\nto include a missing phrase \"~3.5 arcsec to the East and\".]",
  "circularId": 335,
  "createdOn": 927242095000,
  "email": "jsb@astro.caltech.edu",
  "subject": "Optical report on X-ray/GRB transient",
  "submitter": "Josh Bloom at CIT  <jsb@astro.caltech.edu>"
}