TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  5951
SUBJECT: GRB 061217: Confirmation of host candidate
DATE:    06/12/21 17:47:43 GMT
FROM:    Antonio Deugarte at IAA-CSIC  <deugarte@iaa.es>

A. de Ugarte Postigo, A. J. Castro-Tirado, J. Gorosabel, 
M. Jelínek (IAA-CSIC, Granada), J. Aceituno, A. Guijarro 
(CAHA, Almería), A. Monreal (AIP Potsdam), J. Alfonso 
(CSIC Madrid), J.A. Caballero (MPIE) 
on behalf of a larger collaboration,

report:

"We have revised the R band images obtained from the 3.5m
telescope (+PMAS) at Calar Alto (Jelínek et al. GCN 5933) and we
detect an object in the refined error box of XRT (Evans et al GCN
5932) at the following coordinates (J2000) with an uncertainty
of 0.5":

R.A.: 10:41:39.06
Dec.: -21:07:28.7

This object seems to be stable in subsequent images obtained
from the 2.5m INT (+WFC) on 18.24 UT Dec 2006. This supports
the identification of the host galaxy candidate reported by  Berger
et al. (GCN 5949) A finding chart is available at:
http://www.iaa.es/~deugarte/GRBs/061217/061217.gif"

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[GCN OPS NOTE(21dec06): Per author's request, the Dec value was 
corrected from "-21:07:20.7" to "-21:07:28.7".]