A photometric redshift of z = 6.39 ± 0.12 for GRB 050904

Nature

Volumn 440, Issue 7081, 2006, Pages 181-183

  Haislip, J B ^a   Nysewander, M C ^a   Reichart, D E ^a   Levan, A ^b   Tanvir, N ^b   Cenko, S B ^c   Fox, D B ^d   Price, P A ^e   Castro Tirado, A J ^f   Gorosabel, J ^f   Evans, C R ^a   Figueredo, E ^g,h   MacLeod, C L ^a   Kirschbrown, J R ^a   Jelinek, M ^f   Guziy, S ^f   De Ugarte Postigo, A ^f   Cypriano, E S ^h,i   LaCluyze, A ^a   Graham, J ^j   Priddey, R ^b   Chapman, R ^b   Rhoads, J ^k   Fruchter, A S ^k   Lamb, D Q ^l   Kouveliotou, C ^m   Wijers, R A M J ⁿ   Bayliss, M B ^a,l   Schmidt, B P ^o   Soderberg, A M ^c   Kulkarni, S R ^c   Harrison, F A ^c   Moon, D S ^c   Gal Yam, A ^c   Kasliwal, M M ^c   Hudec, R ^p   Vitek, S ^q   Kubanek, P ^r   Crain, J A ^a   Foster, A C ^a   Clemens, J C ^a   Bartelme, J W ^a   Canterna, R ^s   Hartmann, D H ^t   Henden, A A ^u   Klose, S ^v   Park, H S ^w   Williams, G G ^x   Rol, E ^y   O'Brien, P ^y   Bersier, D ^z   Prada, F ^f   Pizarro, S ^h   Maturana, D ^h   Ugarte, P ^h   Alvarez, A ^h   Fernandez, A J M ^f   Jarvis, M J ^aa   Moles, M ^f   Alfaro, E ^f   Ivarsen, K M ^a   Kumar, N D ^a   Mack, C E ^a   Zdarowicz, C M ^a   Gehrels, N ^ab   Barthelmy, S ^ab   Burrows, D N ^d   more..

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^f INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE ANDALUCÍA CSIC   (Spain)

^g UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^h Southern Observatory for Astrophysical Research   (Chile)

ⁱ LABORATÓRIO NACIONAL DE ASTROFÍSICA   (Brazil)

^j UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^k STScI   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^m NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^o AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^p ASTRONOMICAL INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

^q CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^r UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^s UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^t CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^u AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF VARIABLE STAR OBSERVERS   (United States)

^v Thueringer Landessternwarte   (Germany)

^w LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^x UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^y UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^z LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^aa UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^ab NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAILURE ANALYSIS; INFRARED RADIATION; PHOTOMETRY;

GAMM-RAY BURSTS (GRB); OPTICAL AFTERGLOW; STAR FORMATION;

GAMMA RAYS;

GAMMA RAY RADIATION;

ARTICLE; COSMOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; GAMMA RADIATION; HISTORY; INFRARED RADIATION; IONIZATION; PHOTOMETRY; PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 33644859766     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04552     Document Type: Article

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