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GCN Circular 6249

Subject
GRB 070406: photo-z of a bright galaxy in BAT error circle
Date
2007-04-06T21:29:54Z (18 years ago)
From
Eran Ofek at Tel Aviv U. <eran@wise1.tau.ac.il>
E. O. Ofek (Caltech) reports on behalf of a larger collaboration:

Within the BAT error circle of GRB070406 (Cummings et al.; GCN 6247),
there is a relatively bright (g~18.5) SDSS galaxy.
The coordinates of the galaxy are:

13:15:52.94 +16:31:26.0   J2000.0

and it has a photometric redshift of 0.11.
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