Skip to main content
Testing. You are viewing the public testing version of GCN. For the production version, go to https://gcn.nasa.gov.
Announcing GCN Classic Migration Survey, End of Legacy Circulars Email. See news and announcements

GCN Circular 4553

Subject
GRB 060121: A short-hard GRB in a cluster?
Date
2006-01-22T01:28:37Z (19 years ago)
From
Eran Ofek at Tel Aviv U. <eran@wise1.tau.ac.il>
E. O. Ofek (Caltech) report:

The position of the short-hard burst GRB060121 (Arimoto et al. GCN 4550;
Prigozhin et al. GCN 4551) is located 10.3 arcmin from the center of
the galaxy cluster ZwCl 0906.7+4603.

Note, that the probability to find a galaxy cluster
in the NED archive, within 10 arcmin from a random position
on the celestial sphere (with Galactic latitude |b|>25 deg),
is about 5%.
A graph of this probability as function of angular distance is
available from:
http://astro.caltech.edu/~eran/GRB/060121/ProbDistCluster.jpg
Looking for U.S. government information and services? Visit USA.gov