Cosmological Implications of the Very High Redshift GRB 050904

Price, Paul Antony; Cowie, L L; Minezaki, Takeo; Schmidt, Brian; Songaila, A; Yoshii, Yuzuru

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Cosmological Implications of the Very High Redshift GRB 050904

Date

2006

Authors

Price, Paul Antony

Cowie, L L

Minezaki, Takeo

Schmidt, Brian

Songaila, A

Yoshii, Yuzuru

Publisher

IOP Publishing

Abstract

We report near-simultaneous multicolor (RIYJHK) observations made with the MAGNUM 2 m telescope of the gamma-ray burst GRB 050904 detected by the Swift satellite. The spectral energy distribution shows a very large break between the I and J bands. Using i