GCN Circular 9160
Subject
VLA observations of short burst GRB 090417A
Date
2009-04-19T13:23:35Z (16 years ago)
From
Poonam Chandra at U Virginia/NRAO <pc8s@virginia.edu>
P. Chandra (RMC) and D. A. Frail (NRAO) report on behalf of a larger
collaboration:
"We have used the Very Large Array (VLA) to image a field centered on
the 2MASS galaxy suggested by Fox (GCN #9134) to be a possible host of
the short duration burst 090417A (GCN # 9133, 9138). The VLA observed
the burst at a frequency of 8.46 GHz on two epochs, April 17.92 UT and
April 18.90 UT. Within a radius of 1.5 arcmin around the 2MASS galaxy
there are no radio sources detected at either epoch to a 4-sigma limit
of 104 uJy and 84 uJy, respectively. No further observations are planned.
The National Radio Astronomy Observatory is a facility of the National
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Universities, Inc."