BIMA Observations of Gamma-Ray Bursters GRB 970111 and GRB 970228
Smith, I. A., Gruendl, R. A., Liang, E. P., and Lo, K. Y.
The Satellite per Astronomia X (BeppoSAX) is successfully producing small
error boxes to gamma-ray bursts, permitting rapid follow-up multiwavelength
searches for fading and quiescent counterparts.
For GRB 970228 this led to the discovery of the first
convincing fading counterpart.
However, no counterpart was found for GRB 970111.
In this Letter, we present our observations approximately one week
after GRB 970228 and one month after GRB 970111 using the
Berkeley-Illinois-Maryland Association array (BIMA) at 3.5 mm.
No fading millimeter-wave sources were detected, but we demonstrate that
BIMA is well suited for performing future searches.
Status:
September 20, 1997, ApJ, 487, L5.
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