Hubble Space Telescope and Spitzer Observations of the Afterglow and Host Galaxy of GRB 050904 at z = 6.295

Berger, Edo; Chary, R; Cowie, L L; Price, Paul Antony; Schmidt, Brian; Fox, Derek B; Cenko, Stephen B; Djorgovski, S G; Soderberg, A M; Kulkarni, Shrinivas R; McCarthy, P J; Gladders, M D; Peterson, Bruce; Barger, A. J.

Hubble Space Telescope and Spitzer Observations of the Afterglow and Host Galaxy of GRB 050904 at z = 6.295

Date

2007

Authors

Berger, Edo

Chary, R

Cowie, L L

Price, Paul Antony

Schmidt, Brian

Fox, Derek B

Cenko, Stephen B

Djorgovski, S G

Soderberg, A M

Kulkarni, Shrinivas R

Publisher

IOP Publishing

Abstract

We present deep Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and Spitzer Space Telescope observations of GRB 050904 at z = 6.295. We detect the afterglow in the H band more than 3 weeks after the burst and confirm the presence of a jet break at t ≈ 2.1 days. This leads