GCN Circular 13

GRB 971214 Optical Observations                                     #013


S. G. Djorgovski, S. R. Kulkarni, J. S. Bloom (Caltech), R. Goodrich (WMKO), 
and D. A. Frail (NRAO) report on behalf of the Caltech GRB collaboration:  
"Analysis of the spectra of the proposed optical transient counterpart (OT) 
of GRB 971214, obtained at the Keck-II 10-m telescope on 17 Dec 1997 UT, 
shows a possible detection of an extended emission line at a wavelength of 
7567 A.  It is also intriguing that a faint emission line at a similar 
wavelength (7533 A) has been detected from a faint galaxy about 4.5 arcsec 
north of the OT (see our previous email on GCN3
Not found
 
 
).  If this line emission from 
the OT is real, it can be interpreted as the [O II] 3727 line at z = 1.03.  
However, we emphasize that this marginal detection has to be checked with 
additional data."