[vsnet-grb-info 3607] GRB051109B: Late-time Radio Observations
GCN Circulars
gcncirc at capella.gsfc.nasa.gov
Sun Aug 13 04:26:22 JST 2006
TITLE: GCN GRB OBSERVATION REPORT
NUMBER: 5441
SUBJECT: GRB051109B: Late-time Radio Observations
DATE: 06/08/12 19:23:53 GMT
FROM: Alicia Soderberg at Caltech <ams at astro.caltech.edu>
A. M. Soderberg (Caltech), D. A. Frail (NRAO) and P. Chandra (UVA/NRAO)
report on behalf of the Caltech-NRAO-Carnegie GRB Collaboration:
"We re-observed the field of GRB 051109B (GCN 4222) centered on the
revised XRT position (GCN 5387) using the VLA on August 9.5 UT 2006 (t~9
months after the burst) at a frequency of 1.43 GHz. Comparison with our
previous VLA observations (GCN 4245) reveals no new sources within the
revised XRT error circle. We place a 3-sigma limit of 0.21 mJy.
Adopting a redshift of z=0.08 for the putative host galaxy (GCN 5387),
this limit corresponds to a radio luminosity 100 times fainter than that
observed for GRB 030329 at a comparable epoch (Frail et al. 2003, ApJ,
619, 944).
The National Radio Astronomy Observatory is a facility of the National
Science Foundation operated under cooperative agreement by Associated
Universities, Inc."
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