GCN Circular 6698
Subject
GRB 070802: VLT redshift
Date
2007-08-02T10:22:41Z (17 years ago)
From
Daniele Malesani at Niels Bohr Inst,Dark Cosmology Center <malesani@astro.ku.dk>
J.X. Prochaska (UCO/Lick), C.C. Thoene, D. Malesani, J.P.U. Fynbo, P.M.
Vreeswijk (DARK), report:
We observed the candidate afterglow of GRB 070802 (Barthelmy et al., GCN
6692; Berger et al., GCN 6695) with the ESO VLT + FORS2. A 30-min
spectrum was acquired starting on Aug 2.378 UT. From the detection of
several Fe lines, we measure z=2.45.
We acknoweldge excellent support from the VLT staff, in particular Alain
Smette.