TITLE: GCN GRB OBSERVATION REPORT NUMBER: 4074 SUBJECT: GRB051008: Radio Observation DATE: 05/10/08 23:00:42 GMT FROM: Patrick B. Cameron at Caltech P. B. Cameron (Caltech) reports on behalf of the Caltech-NRAO-Carnegie collaboration: "We observed the field of GRB 051008 (GCN 4069) with the Very Large Array at 8.5 GHz beginning October 8.86 UT (~4 hours after the burst). No radio source is detected within the XRT error circle (GCN 4073) with a 2-sigma upper limit of 80 uJy. We find one source above the 4-sigma level in the BAT error circle at RA(J2000) 13:31:22.92 +/- 0.07 DEC +42:04:31.7 +/- 0.3 with a flux density of 175 +/- 40 uJy. However, the probability of finding a source of this brightness in a region with 3-arcmin radius is ~54% (Fomalont et al., 2002, ApJ, 123, 2402). The National Radio Astronomy Observatory is a facility of the National Science Foundation operated under cooperative agreement by Associated Universities, Inc."