GCN Circular 6275
Subject
GRB 070412: Nearby bright galaxy
Event
Date
2007-04-12T02:30:59Z (19 years ago)
From
Edo Berger at Carnegie Obs <eberger@ociw.edu>
E. O. Ofek (Caltech) and E. Berger (Carnegie) reports on behalf of a larger
collaboration:
The XRT error circle of GRB 070412 (Romano et al. 2007; GCN 6273),
coincides with the outskirts of a nearby (z=0.037) bright (r=13.6) galaxy
(CGCG 215-024).
The XRT position is 46.5" from the galaxy center (34 kpc projected).
The SDSS coordinates of the galaxy are:
RA = 12:06:07.818
DEC= +40:09:02.68 (J2000)