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GCN Circular 10173

Subject
GRB 091117: XRT source coincident with a DSS galaxy
Date
2009-11-19T04:56:34Z (15 years ago)
From
Edo Berger at Harvard <eberger@cfa.harvard.edu>
E. Berger (Harvard) reports:

"Inspection of Swift/XRT observations of the short GRB 091117 (GCN 
#10171) reveals an X-ray source coincident with an extended object in 
DSS images.  The DSS object (APMUKS B020129.84-171252.3) is located at 
the following coordinates (J2000):
	RA = 02:03:53.35
	DEC = -16:58:30.6
Optical observations are in progress."
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