GCN Circular 5555
Subject
GRB 060908: redshift
Date
2006-09-08T23:48:02Z (18 years ago)
From
Evert Rol at U.Leicester <er45@star.le.ac.uk>
E. Rol (U of Leicester), P. Jakobsson (U of Hertfordshire), N. Tanvir
(U of Leicester), A. Levan (U of Hertfordshire), report for a larger
collaboration:
We obtained a spectrum of GRB 060908 (Evans et al, GCN 5544) with
Gemini-North/GMOS, for a total of 30 minutes starting approximately 2
hours post burst. We identify absorption lines of CIV (1548, 1551) and
SiII (1304), and possibly AlIII (1863), at a redshift of z = 2.43 +/- 0.05.
We thank the Gemini staff for their support with the observations.