TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 6092 SUBJECT: GRB 070201: IPN constraints and nearby galaxies DATE: 07/02/10 00:43:43 GMT FROM: Eran Ofek at Tel Aviv U. E. O. Ofek (Caltech) report: I note that the IPN coordinate constraints of GRB 070201 (Golenetskii et al.; GCN 6088) do not contain the position of the galaxy M31 (cf. Perley & Bloom; GCN 6091). The ecliptic latitude of M31 is 33.3 deg, while the Konus/Wind satellite constrained the ecliptic latitude of this burst to lay between +60 and +90 deg. However, the relatively massive/nearby spiral galaxy NGC 5985 (distance of ~40 Mpc) satisfies the IPN constrains. A plot of the galaxy position and IPN annulus is in: http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~eran/GRB/070201/NGC5985.jpg I further note that the total area within the IPN constraint is about 8 sq deg.