GCN Circular 5635
Subject
GRB 060927: Possible host galaxy (star?) in the SDSS
Event
Date
2006-09-27T16:15:49Z (19 years ago)
From
Alexander Kann at TLS Tautenburg <kann@tls-tautenburg.de>
D. A. Kann (TLS Tautenburg) reports:
There is a faint object visible in the SDSS r' band image (Cool
et al., GCN 5631) at position:
RA = 21:58:11.95 (329.54981)
Dec = +05:21:51.34 (5.36426)
It has model magnitudes:
u' = 24.114 +/- 0.976
g' = 24.414 +/- 0.497
r' = 22.915 +/- 0.216
i' = 23.009 +/- 0.345
z' = 21.672 +/- 0.426
This is very close to the afterglow location determined by
Schaefer et al. (GCN 5629) and Guidorzi et al. (GCN 5633) and
closer than the APM galaxy mentioned by Barbier et al. (GCN
5627).
The object is listed a being a star in the SDSS object table, but
it could also be a very compact host galaxy. If it is a star,
special care must be taken when undertaking deep photometry.
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