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

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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

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Keywords: Cosmology: observations; Galaxies: abundances; Galaxies: high-redshift; Galaxies: starburst; Gamma rays: bursts

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Astrophysical Journal, The

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Open Access

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