[AAVSO-HEN] GRB 051214: A short GRB in a cluster?

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TITLE:   GCN GRB OBSERVATION REPORT
NUMBER:  4351
SUBJECT: GRB 051214: A short GRB in a cluster?
DATE:    05/12/15 01:24:41 GMT
FROM:    Avishay Gal-Yam at Caltech  <avishay at astro.caltech.edu>

E. O. Ofek and A. Gal-Yam (Caltech) report:

The position of the apparently short burst GRB051214 (Swift trigger 172767) 
GCN) is located 0.9 arcmin from the galaxy cluster candidate NSC 
J105231+383822 
(Gal et al. 2003 AJ 125, 2064).
The estimated photometric redshift of the cluster is 0.09.
An SDSS image of the cluster is available from:
http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~eran/GRB/051214/SDSS_Cluster.jpg



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