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GCN Circular 4692

Subject
GRB 060206: Spectroscopic Redshift
Date
2006-02-06T09:34:16Z (19 years ago)
Edited On
2024-11-18T09:52:27Z (4 days ago)
From
Johan U. Fynbo at U.Copenhagen <jfynbo@astro.ku.dk>
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>
Johan P. U. Fynbo, Marceau Limousin, José María Castro Cerón,
Brian L. Jensen (DARK Cosmology Centre), Jyri Näränen (Helsinki
Observatory) report on behalf of a larger collaboration:

"From the calibrated ALFOSC spectrum of the afterglow of GRB 060206
(GCN #4682, #4683, #4684, #4686) we measure a redshift of
z=4.045 based on Lyman-alpha, SiII, SiII*, OI, CII and SiIV
among other lines. Our previous estimate was off due to a
calculation error for which we apologise."
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