GCN Circular 1200
Subject
GRB 011211: Optical Spectroscopy
Event
Date
2001-12-13T20:19:00Z (24 years ago)
From
Andrew S. Fruchter at STScI <fruchter@stsci.edu>
A. Fruchter (STScI), P. Vreeswijk (A'dam), J. Rhoads, and I. Burud (STScI)
report for a larger collaboration:
We have observed the optical counterpart of GRB (XRF) 011211 (GCN 1188, 1191)
using the FORS2 spectrograph on the Yepun (VLT4) 8-m telescope of the European
Southern Observatory. We find an absorption line system corresponding to a
redshift of z=2.14 superposed on the continuum emission. Hydrogen Lyman
alpha, as well as the absorption lines of several metals including C, Fe and
Si, are clearly detected.