GRB 970111
Abstract
D. A. Frail, National Radio Astronomy Observatory; S. R. Kulkarni, California Institute of Technology; L. Nicastro, D. Dal Fiume, M. Orlandini, E. Palazzi, and G. Pizzichini, ITESRE, Bologna; F. Frontera and G. Zavattini, Universita di Ferrara; L. Amati, M. N. Cinti, E. Costa, M. Feroci, and L. Piro, IAS, Frascati; and R. Jager and J. Heise, SRON, report: "We have detected a single unresolved (at a level of 1") radio source coincident with one of the two x-ray sources (source 'a') seen toward GRB 970111 by BeppoSAX (IAUC 6539). Observations at 20 cm with the Very Large Array on Jan. 13.58 UT yield the position R.A. = 15h28m44s.57 +/- 0s.01, Decl. = +19 44'35".0 +/- 0".2 (equinox J2000.0) and a flux density of 2.0 mJy. There is no radio source in the error circle of BeppoSAX source 'b' above a 3-sigma level of 0.18 mJy. A radio monitoring program is underway of the entire 10'-radius error circle; a preliminary analysis of 20-cm data taken on Jan. 12.58, 13.58, and 15.57 shows no significant variability for any of the radio sources detected in this larger field at a level of 1 mJy or more." K. Hurley, Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, on behalf of the Ulysses Gamma-Ray Burst Team; and C. Kouveliotou, G. Fishman, and C. Meegan, Marshall Space Flight Center, NASA, on behalf of the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory BATSE Team, report: "A preliminary triangulation of this event has been done using Ulysses and BATSE data. The resulting position is an annulus whose half-width is 0.045 deg centered at R.A. = 11h50m56s, Decl. = +33 21'.8 (equinox 2000.0), with central radius 49.979 deg. Combining this with the BeppoSAX error circle (IAUC 6533) gives an approximately trapezoidal error box with corners at R.A., Decl. = 15h28m20s, +19 30'.2; 15h28m57s, +19 46'.8; 15h27m59s, +19 32'.2; 15h28m38s, +19 49'.7 (equinox 2000.0). Only one of the BeppoSAX sources given on IAUC 6539, source 'a', lies within this error box. Further analysis is expected to reduce the width of this error box substantially."
- Publication:
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International Astronomical Union Circular
- Pub Date:
- January 1997
- Bibcode:
- 1997IAUC.6545....1F