{
  "bibcode": "2000GCN...698....1H",
  "body": "Stephen Holland, Johan Fynbo, Bjarne Thomsen (University of Aarhus),\nMichael Andersen (University of Oulu),\nGunnlaugur Bjornsson (University of Iceland),\nJens Hjorth (University of Copenhagen),\nAndreas Jaunsen (University of Oslo),\nPriya Natarajan (Univeristy of Cambridge, & Yale), and\nNial Tanvir (University of Hertfordshire)\n\n\tWe have initiated a survey of the host galaxies of gamma-ray\nbursts (GRBs) using the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph on the\nHubble Space Telescope.  The data will consist of deep images of the\nhost galaxies of eleven GRBs taken at least one year after the GRB\noccurred.  We have waived the normal one-year proprietary period for\nthis data, and we will make drizzled images available to the\nastronomical community.  The web site for the Survey of the Host\nGalaxies of Gamma-Ray Bursts is\n\"http://www.ifa.au.dk/~hst/grb_hosts/index.html\".\n\n\tWe have obtained 8983 seconds of STIS images taken with the\n50CCD (clear) aperture of GRB 980519.  A combined image is now\navailable at \"http://www.ifa.au.dk/~hst/grb_hosts/data/index.html\".\nThis data was taken approximately 750 days after the burst.  We find\ntwo small galaxies within approximately 1.5 arcseconds of the GRB.\nThe bright galaxy has an AB magnitude of 27.0 +/- 0.1 in the STIS\n50CCD (clear) aperture while the fainter galaxy, which we presume to\nbe the host, has an AB magnitude of 28.0 +/- 0.3.  The total flux from\nboth objects agrees with the Kron-Cousins R-band magnitudes measured\nby Hjorth et al. (1999, A&AS, 138, 461), Sokolov et al. (1998, GCNC\n148), and Bloom et al. (1998, GCNC 149) if the combined colour of the\ntwo galaxies is V-R = 0.8 +/- 0.4.  The GRB occurred approximately 0.7\narcseconds to the north of the centre of the faint galaxy.  The bright\ngalaxy shows some signs of a barred spiral structure.  The central\nregions have a full-width at half-maximum (after correcting for the\npoint spread function) of ~0.06 arcseconds.  The faint galaxy is\nelongated with an ellipticity of ~0.3 and a major axis of ~1\narcsecond.",
  "circularId": 698,
  "createdOn": 960906231000,
  "email": "holland@ifa.au.dk",
  "subject": "GRB980519, HST/STIS observations of the host galaxy",
  "submitter": "Stephen Holland at IFA, U of Aarhus  <holland@ifa.au.dk>",
  "eventId": "GRB 980519"
}