GCN Circular 7210
Subject
GRB 080121: Nearby SDSS galaxies
Event
Date
2008-01-23T22:51:25Z (18 years ago)
From
Daniel Perley at U.C. Berkeley <dperley@astro.berkeley.edu>
D. A. Perley, R. J. Foley, and J. S. Bloom (UC Berkeley) report:
Two SDSS spectroscopically-catalogued galaxies are present in NED*
within the Swift-BAT error circle of GRB 080121 (Cummings et al., GCN 7209):
SDSS J090858.15+414926.5 09:08:58.1 +41:49:27 z=0.045322
SDSS J090904.12+415033.2 09:09:04.1 +41:50:33 z=0.046041
Several other, fainter extended sources are also present in the field,
possibly indicating that this GRB may have occurred within a group or
small cluster. At a redshift of z=0.046, the isotropic energy release
would be ~10^47 erg, several orders of magnitude less than typical
short-hard bursts.
* The NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED) is operated by the Jet
Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under
contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.