{
  "bibcode": "2009GCN..9526....1M",
  "body": "Daniele Malesani (DARK/NBI) reports:\n\nI inspected the SDSS images of the field of GRB 090618 (Schady et al., \nGCN 9512). A faint object is visible in the r and i frames at the \nposition of the optical afterglow (e.g. Schady et al., GCN 9512; Cenko, \nGCN 9513), likely the host galaxy of the GRB. Nothing convincing is \nvisible in the u, g, and z images. Compared to nearby SDSS stars, the \nmagnitudes are r = 22.7 +- 0.3 and i = 22.2 +- 0.4. The bright host \nmagnitude is consistent with the low redshift reported by Cenko et al. \n(GCN 9518)\n\nA supernova as bright as SN 1998bw (Galama et al. 1998, Nature, 395, \n670) would peak at r(AB) ~ 23.6 at z=0.54.",
  "circularId": 9526,
  "createdOn": 1245343972000,
  "email": "malesani@astro.ku.dk",
  "subject": "GRB 090618: SDSS host detection",
  "submitter": "Daniele Malesani at Dark Cosmology Centre, Niels Bohr Inst  <malesani@astro.ku.dk>",
  "eventId": "GRB 090618"
}