GCN Circular 5320
Subject
GRB 060714: OA redshift
Date
2006-07-15T05:23:29Z (18 years ago)
From
Pall Jakobsson at U Hertfordshire <palli@star.herts.ac.uk>
Pall Jakobsson (U. Hertfordshire), Paul Vreeswijk (ESO),
Johan P.U. Fynbo, Jens Hjorth (DARK, NBI), Rhaana Starling
(U. Amsterdam), D. Alexander Kann (TLS Tautenburg) and
Dieter Hartmann (Clemson University) report on behalf of a
larger collaboration:
Using FORS1 on the Very Large Telescope, we have obtained
3*30 min spectra (300V) of GRB 060714 (Krimm et al., GCN 5311).
The acquisition image shows the UVOT optical afterglow candidate
to have R ~ 20.4 on July 14.990 (8.54 hours post-burst).
The combined spectrum is rich of absorption features, including
Ly-alpha, Ly-beta, S II, C II, C IV, Si II, Si IV, Fe II, Al II
and Zn II, corresponding to a redshift of z = 2.71.