Robust photometric redshift determinations of gamma-ray burst afterglows at z ≳ 2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 490, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1047-1053

  Curran, P A ^a   Wijers, R A M J ^a   Heemskerk, M H M ^a   Starling, R L C ^b   Wiersema, K ^b   Van Der Horst, A J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

Author keywords

Gamma rays: bursts; Methods: data analysis; Techniques: photometric

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; ALGORITHMS; BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; COSMOLOGY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; ERROR ANALYSIS; ERRORS; GAMMA RAYS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; INFRARED DEVICES; IONIZING RADIATION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTOMETRY; POPULATION STATISTICS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

AND MODELS; ERROR ESTIMATES; GAMMA RAYS: BURSTS; GAMMA-RAY; GREAT-ER; HOST GALAXIES; METHODS: DATA ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO; NEAR INFRARED; OPTICAL; PARAMETER FITTINGS; REDSHIFT DETERMINATIONS; REDSHIFTS; SPECTRAL ENERGY DISTRIBUTIONS; SPECTRAL INDICES; TECHNIQUES: PHOTOMETRIC;

STARS;

EID: 54949097831     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: 14320746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:200810545     Document Type: Article

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