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GCN Circular 4351

Subject
GRB 051215: A short GRB in a cluster?
Date
2005-12-15T01:24:41Z (19 years ago)
From
Avishay Gal-Yam at Caltech <avishay@astro.caltech.edu>
E. O. Ofek and A. Gal-Yam (Caltech) report:

The position of the apparently short burst GRB051215 (Swift trigger 172767) 
GCN) is located 0.9 arcmin from the galaxy cluster candidate NSC 
J105231+383822 
(Gal et al. 2003 AJ 125, 2064).
The estimated photometric redshift of the cluster is 0.09.
An SDSS image of the cluster is available from:
http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~eran/GRB/051214/SDSS_Cluster.jpg

[GCN OPS NOTE(15dec05): Per author's request, the 051214 was changed to 051215.]
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