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GRB 990506

gammaBurst SIMBAD gB 170 papers

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Right ascension: 11h 54m 41.00s
Declination: −26° 45′ 00.0″
Galactic l, b: 287.54, 34.42
Redshift z: 1.3
Radial velocity: 2.0447e+05 km/s

Also known as

6 identifiers

GRB 990506GRB 990506ATrigger 7549XRF 990506XSS J11559-2637[STK2001] 11304b

In the same field

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Object	Type	Separation	V
CD-26 8854	Star	194.3″	10.56
[LDM2003] GRB J115450.1-264035	Galaxy	291.7″	—
GALEX J115455.1-263740	WhiteDwarf	478.7″	—

Provenance

where this card came from

Archive	Read at (UTC)	Record
Seeded from the bulk archive load; no per-object fetch yet.

Machine-readable: /api/v1/object/grb-990506 · Registry entry updated 2026-08-14.