GCN Circular 7384
Subject
GRB 080310: Magellan redshift
Event
Date
2008-03-10T09:16:48Z (18 years ago)
From
Edo Berger at Princton U <eberger@astro.princeton.edu>
E. Berger (Carnegie/Princeton) and M. Rauch (Carnegie) report:
"We obtained a spectrum of the optical afterglow of GRB 080310 (GCNs 7381,
7382) using the MagE spectrograph on the Magellan/Clay 6.5-m telescope.
From preliminary analysis we determine a redshift of about 1.7 based on
broad Ly-alpha absorption at ~3300A. Further observations and analysis
are on-going."