GCN Circular 6759
Subject
GRB 061110A: redshift confirmed
Date
2007-08-13T17:22:18Z (17 years ago)
From
Daniele Malesani at Niels Bohr Inst,Dark Cosmology Center <malesani@astro.ku.dk>
J.P.U. Fynbo, C.C. Thoene, D. Malesani, J. Hjorth, P.M. Vreeswijk
(DARK), and P. Jakobsson (Univ. Hertfordshire) report on behalf of a
larger collaboration:
We inspected in detail our VLT spectra (Thoene et al., GCN 5812) of the
afterglow of GRB 061110A (Falcone et al., GCN 5795; Chen et al., GCN 5797).
Further to the lines reported in GCN 5812 (6552 and 8803 A), interpreted
as [OII] and [OIII] 5007 at z=0.758, we also detect emission at 8547 A,
which corresponds to Hbeta at the same redshift. We thus consider the
redshift to be secure.