GCN Circular 3924
Subject
GRB 050904: photometric redshift
Date
2005-09-05T18:55:57Z (19 years ago)
From
Daniele Malesani at SISSA-ISAS,Trieste,Italy <malesani@sissa.it>
L.A. Antonelli, A. Grazian (INAF/OAR), P. D'Avanzo (INAF/OABr), V. Testa
(INAF/OAR), S. Covino, G. Tagliaferri, G. Chincarini (INAF/OABr), A.
Fernandez-Soto (Univ. Valencia), D. Malesani (SISSA), F. Fiore and L.
Stella (INAF/OAR) report on behalf of the MISTICI collaboration:
"We observed the field of GRB 050904 (Cummings et al., GCN 3910; Mineo
et al., GCN 3920) with the ESO VLT-UT1, in the J, H, and K bands (with
ISAAC) and in the I band (with FORS2).
The afterglow (Haislip et al., GCN 3913; D'Avanzo et al., GCN 3921) is
detected in all filters, including the I band.
We derive for this source a photometric redshift z = 6.10 (+0.37,
-0.12; 90% confidence) by adopting a chi square minimization technique
(Fontana et al., 2000, AJ, 120, 2206). This is in agreement with the
result of Haislip et al. (GCN 3919).
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