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GCN Circular 14796

Subject
GRB 130606A: 10.4m GTC refined redshift z = 5.91
Date
2013-06-07T01:59:16Z (11 years ago)
Edited On
2024-11-18T10:09:10Z (4 days ago)
From
Alberto Castro-Tirado at Inst.de Astro. de Andalucia <ajct@iaa.es>
Edited By
Judith Racusin at NASA/GSFC <judith.racusin@nasa.gov> on behalf of Leo P. Singer at NASA/GSFC <leo.p.singer@nasa.gov>
A. J. Castro-Tirado, R. Sánchez-Ramírez (IAA-CSIC), J. Gorosabel (EHU-UPV,
IAA-CSIC), M. Jelinek, J. C. Tello, P. Ferrero, O. Lara-Gil, R. Cunniffe
(IAA-CSIC), D. Pérez-Ramírez (U. Jaén), S. Guziy (Nikolaev Univ.), P. Kubanek (FZU),
J. M. Castro Cerón (ESAC), A. Fernández-Soto (UV), S. Mottola (DLR), S. Hellmich (DLR),
R. Fernández-Muñoz (EELM-CSIC), V. F. Muñoz-Martínez (UMA), L.
Sabau-Graziati (INTA), A. Martín-Carrillo (UCD), J. Cepa (IAC), A. Tejero
and C. Álvarez-Iglesias (GTC), on behalf of a larger collaboration,
report:

"A detailed analysis of our 10.4m GTC spectrum reported on GCNC 14790
reveals several absorption metallic lines (N V, Si II and Si IV amongst
others) at a common redshift of z = 5.91 which we propose to be the
redshift of GRB 130606A."

[GCN OPS NOTE(10jun13): Per author's request, SG was added to the author list.]
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