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GCN Circular 9116

Subject
GRB 090406: pseudo-z= 0.91 from prompt emission spectrum
Date
2009-04-09T09:43:25Z (15 years ago)
From
Alexandre Pelangeon at LATT,CNRS,U. Toulouse <alexandre.pelangeon@gmail.com>
A. Pelangeon & J-L. Atteia (LATT-OMP) report:

We used the spectral parameters of GRB 090406
provided by Golenetskii et al. (GCNC 9103)
to compute the spectral pseudo-redshift(**) of this burst
detected by Konus-Wind and Konus-RF instrument.


We find a pseudo-redshift pz= 0.91 +/- 0.10


** cf. http://www.ast.obs-mip.fr/grb/pz
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