Implications for cosmic reionization from the optical afterglow spectrum of the gamma-ray burst 050904 at z = 6.3

Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 485-498

  Totani, Tomonori ^a   Kawai, Nobuyuki ^b   Kosugi, George ^c   Aoki, Kentaro ^c   Yamada, Toru ^c   Iye, Masanori ^c   Ohta, Kouji ^a   Hattori, Takashi ^c  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Tokyo Institute of Technology ^*  (Japan)

^c NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cosmology: early universe; Galaxies: intergalactic medium; Gamma rays: observations; Gamma rays: theory

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; GALAXIES; GAMMA RAYS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; STARS;

COSMOLOGY: EARLY UNIVERSE; GALAXIES INTERGALACTIC MEDIUM; GAMMA RAYS BURSTS; GAMMA RAYS: THEORY; GAMMA-RAYS:OBSERVATIONS; OPTICAL AFTERGLOW; REIONIZATION; SPECTRA'S; UPPER LIMITS;

COSMOLOGY;

EID: 33746660209     PISSN: 00046264     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pasj/58.3.485     Document Type: Article

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