{
  "bibcode": "2007GCN..7076....1J",
  "body": "Pall Jakobsson (U. Hertfordshire), Johan P. U. Fynbo,\nPaul M. Vreeswijk, Daniele Malesani (DARK, NBI) and\nJesper Sollerman (DARK, NBI;  U. Stockholm) report\non behalf of a larger collaboration:\n\nUsing FORS2 on the Very Large Telescope, we have obtained \n2*30 min spectra (grism 300V) of the optical afterglow \nof GRB 071112C (Perri et al., GCN 7059).\n\nThe spectrum displays numerous Fe II lines and the Mg II \ndoublet (2796,2803) in absorption corresponding to a redshift \nof z = 0.823 (based on a preliminary wavelength calibration).\nAt this redshift we also find emission lines corresponding\nto [O II] 3728 and [O III] 5008.\n\nWe thank the Paranal staff for excellent support, especially\nStephane Brillant and Linda Schmidtobreick.",
  "circularId": 7076,
  "createdOn": 1194932458000,
  "email": "P.Jakobsson@herts.ac.uk",
  "subject": "GRB 071112C: VLT redshift",
  "submitter": "Pall Jakobsson at U Hertfordshire  <P.Jakobsson@herts.ac.uk>",
  "eventId": "GRB 071112C"
}