A γ-ray burst at a redshift of ≈ 8.2

Nature

Volumn 461, Issue 7268, 2009, Pages 1254-1257

  Tanvir, N R ^a   Fox, D B ^b   Levan, A J ^c   Berger, E ^d   Wiersema, K ^a   Fynbo, J P U ^e   Cucchiara, A ^b   Kruhler T ^f,g   Gehrels, N ^h   Bloom, J S ⁱ   Greiner, J ^f   Evans, P A ^a   Rol, E ^j   Olivares, F ^f   Hjorth, J ^e   Jakobsson, P ^k   Farihi, J ^a   Willingale, R ^a   Starling, R L C ^a   Cenko, S B ⁱ   Perley, D ⁱ   Maund, J R ^e   Duke, J ^a   Wijers, R A M J ^j   Adamson, A J ^l   Allan, A ^m   Bremer, M N ⁿ   Burrows, D N ^b   Castro Tirado, A J ^o   Cavanagh, B ^l   De Ugarte Postigo, A ^p   Dopita, M A ^q   Fatkhullin, T A ^r   Fruchter, A S ^s   Foley, R J ^d   Gorosabel, J ^o   Kennea, J ^b   Kerr, T ^l   Klose, S ^t   Krimm, H A ^h,u   Komarova, V N ^r   Kulkarni, S R ^v   Moskvitin, A S ^r   Mundell, C G ^w   Naylor, T ^m   Page, K ^a   Penprase, B E ^x   Perri, M ^y   Podsiadlowski, P ^z   Roth, K ^aa   Rutledge, R E ^ab   Sakamoto, T ^h   Schady, P ^ac   Schmidt, B P ^q   Soderberg, A M ^d   Sollerman, J ^e,ad   Stephens, A W ^aa   Stratta, G ^y   Ukwatta, T N ^h,ae   Watson, D ^e   Westra, E ^d   Wold, T ^l   Wolf, C ^z   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^d HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^f MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR EXTRATERRESTRISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

^g TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^h NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^k UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^l UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^o INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE ANDALUCÍA CSIC   (Spain)

^p EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

^q AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^r RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^s STScI   (United States)

^t THÜRINGER LANDESSTERNWARTE TAUTENBURG   (Germany)

^u UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^v CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^w LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^x POMONA COLLEGE   (United States)

^y ASI SCIENCE DATA CENTER   (Italy)

^z UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^aa GEMINI OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^ab MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^ac UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^ad STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^ae GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSMOLOGY; EXTRATERRESTRIAL MATTER; GAMMA RAY RADIATION;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COSMOS; GAMMA RADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 70350686721     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08459     Document Type: Article

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