Spectroscopic limits on the distance and energy release of GRB 990123

Science

Volumn 283, Issue 5410, 1999, Pages 2075-2077

  Andersen, Michael I ^a   Castro Tirado, Alberto J ^b,c   Hjorth, Jens ^d   Møller, Palle ^e   Pedersen, Holger ^d   Caon, Nicola ^f   Cairós, Luz Marina ^f   Korhonen, Heidi ^a,g   Osorio, María Rosa Zapatero ^f   Pérez, Enrique ^c   Frontera, Filippo ^h  

^a NORDIC OPTICAL TELESCOPE   (Spain)

^b CENTRO DE ASTROBIOLOGÍA CSIC INTA   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE ANDALUCÍA CSIC   (Spain)

^d Astronomical Observatory University of Copenhagen ^*  (Denmark)

^e EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

^f INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE CANARIAS   (Spain)

^g UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^h UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; COSMOS; ENERGY; GAMMA RADIATION; PHOTOMETRY; POLARIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 0033605734     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.283.5410.2075     Document Type: Article

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24. We thank the NOT director for continued support to our GRB programme. This research was supported by the Danish Natural Science Research Council (SNF), the Icelandic Council of Science and the University of Iceland Research Fund. The Nordic Optical Telescope is operated on the island of La Patma jointly by Denmark. Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden in the Spanish Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias. The data presented here have been taken using ALFOSC, which is owned by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA) and operated at the Nordic Optical Telescope under agreement between IAA and the Astronomical Observatory of the University of Copenhagen.