Spitzer: Farthest Grb Discovered!, GRB 050904 |
Spitzer: Farthest Grb Discovered!, GRB 050904 |
Sep 12 2005, 02:21 PM
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http://gcn.gsfc.nasa.gov/gcn/gcn3/3924.gcn3
--- We derive for this source a photometric redshift z = 6.10 (+0.37, -0.12; 90% confidence) ... --- GRB distance: redshift of 6.10 = 12.7 billion ly At 01:51:44 UT / september 4th, Swift-BAT triggered GRB050904. More information: http://gcn.gsfc.nasa.gov/other/050904.gcn3 -------------------- - blue_scape / Nico -
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Sep 12 2005, 02:31 PM
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ESO press release:
Star Death Beacon at the Edge of the Universe Astronomers Find Farthest Known Gamma-Ray Burst with ESO VLT http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2005/pr-22-05.html -------------------- - blue_scape / Nico -
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Sep 13 2005, 02:34 PM
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SWIFT press release:
MOST DISTANT EXPLOSION DETECTED, SMASHES PREVIOUS RECORD !!! GRB duration: about 3.5 minutes press release: http://swift.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/swift/news/2005/05-259.html press release images and animations: http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/starsg...istant_grb.html -------------------- - blue_scape / Nico -
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Feb 7 2006, 07:08 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
Astrophysics, abstract
astro-ph/0509737 From: Cusumano Giancarlo [view email] Date (v1): Sat, 24 Sep 2005 09:45:33 GMT (61kb) Date (revised v2): Sun, 5 Feb 2006 22:13:20 GMT (693kb) Date (revised v3): Tue, 7 Feb 2006 05:44:48 GMT (61kb) Detection of a huge explosion in the early Universe Authors: G. Cusumano, V. Mangano, G. Chincarini, A. Panaitescu, D.N. Burrows, V. La Parola, T. Sakamoto, S. Campana, T. Mineo, G. Tagliaferri, L. Angelini, S.D. Barthelemy, A.P. Beardmore, P.T. Boyd, L. Cominsky, C. Gronwall, E.E. Fenimore, N. Gehrels, P. Giommi, M. Goad, K. Hurley, J.A. Kennea, K.O. Mason, F. Marshall, P. Meszaros, J.A. Nousek, J.P. Osborne, D.M. Palmer, P.W.A. Roming, A. Wells, N.E. White, B. Zhang Comments: 11 pages, 1 table, 3 figures. Note: this paper has been submitted for publication in Nature, It is embargoed for discussion in the popular press Gamma-ray Bursts (GRBs) are bright flashes of high energy photons that can last from about 10 milliseconds to 10 minutes. Their origin and nature have puzzled the scientific community for about 25 years until 1997, when the first X-ray afterglows of long (> 2 s duration) bursts were detected and the first optical and radio counterparts were found. These measurements established that long GRBs are typically at high redshift (z 1.6) and are in sub-luminous star-forming host galaxies. They are likely produced in core-collapse explosions of a class of massive stars that give rise to highly relativistic jets (collapsar model). Internal inhomogeneities in the velocity field of the relativistic expanding flow lead to collisions between fast moving and slow moving fluid shells and to the formation of internal shock waves. These shocks are believed to produce the observed prompt emission in the form of irregularly shaped and spaced pulses of gamma-rays, each pulse corresponding to a distinct internal collision. The expansion of the jet outward into the circumstellar medium is believed to give rise to ``external'' shocks, responsible for producing the smoothly fading afterglow emission seen in the X-ray, optical and radio bands. Here we report on the gamma-ray and x-ray observation of the most distant gamma-ray burst ever observed: its redshift of 6.29 translates to a distance of 13 billion light-years from Earth, corresponding to a time when the Universe was just 700 million to 750 million years old. The discovery of a gamma-ray burst at such a large redshift implies the presence of massive stars only 700 million years after the Big Bang. The very high redshift bursts represent a good way to study the re-ionization era soon after the Universe came out of the Dark Ages. http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0509737 -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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