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The host to gamma-ray burst 970508: a distant dwarf galaxy?

Galama, T. J.; Bloom, J. S.; Kouveliotou, C. +6 more

If the optical transient to gamma-ray burst (GRB) 970508 is indeed associated with the 8 May burst and is connected with the z = 0.835 absorption system reported by Metzger et al. (1997) [Natur, 387, 879], then either the GRB originated from an intrinsically very faint galaxy (L ≲ 0.01L_∗) or it occurred at a large distance from a host g…