[vsnet-grb-info 15409] GRB 140817A draft circular on nearby galaxy

[GCN Circulars]

TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  16698
SUBJECT: GRB 140817A draft circular on nearby galaxy
DATE:    14/08/17 16:46:49 GMT
FROM:    Jay R. Cummings at NASA/GSFC/Swift  <james.r.cummings at nasa.gov>

GRB 140817A Close to nearby galaxy

J. R. Cummings, K. L. Page (U Leicester) on behalf of the Swift science team:

We note the presence of a low-redshift galaxy in DSS, SDSS, 2MASS (SIMBAD) whose
center is 98 arcseconds from the center of the Swift-XRT refined position error
circle (Osborne, GCN Circ. # 16697), MCG+10-12-141 at z ~ 0.018368. The angular
size of the galaxy is about 0.8 arcmin.