3 Host galaxies

3.1 GRB 980519

High-resolution (seeing $\sim 0\hbox{$.\!\!^{\prime\prime}$}5$) late-time imaging is shown in Fig. 1. At the location of the OT a faint $R\approx26$ source is seen. The expectation that the OT is fainter than this leads us to suspect that we are seeing the host galaxy, possibly with a small contribution from the OT. It appears from Fig. 1 that this galaxy may be part of an interacting system, possibly powering a star burst. Alternatively, the galaxy is an irregular system consisting of several sub-clumps with detectable star formation.

3.2 GRB 980613

A fairly large and bright host galaxy has been observed with Keck-II [3, (Djorgovski et al. 1998)] and NOT. Figure 2 shows the very blue ($R \sim 23.4 \pm 0.2,\ R\!-\!I < 0$) edge-on disk host galaxy with a companion galaxy nearby. The position of the OT coincides with the centre of the host. The host is of significantly larger angular extent than any other known GRB host galaxy, so it will be possible to obtain detailed information about the host's morphology.