TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 8748 SUBJECT: VLA radio detection of GRB 081221 DATE: 08/12/28 16:10:17 GMT FROM: Poonam Chandra at U Virginia/NRAO Poonam Chandra (RMC) and Dale A. Frail (NRAO) report on behalf of the Caltech-NRAO-Carnegie GRB Collaboration: "We used the Very Large Array to re-observe the field of view toward GRB 081221 (GCN 8687) at a frequency of 8.46 GHz on 2008 Dec 28.16 UT for a longer integration. The GRB radio afterglow is clearly detected at the Gemini optical afterglow position (GCN 8698) with the flux density of 167 +/- 27 uJy. The National Radio Astronomy Observatory is a facility of the National Science Foundation operated under cooperative agreement by Associated Universities, Inc."