GCN Circular 1330
Subject
GRB020405: VLT spectroscopy
Date
2002-04-06T18:27:39Z (22 years ago)
From
Elena Pian at ITESRE-CNR,Bologna <pian@tesre.bo.cnr.it>
N. Masetti, E. Palazzi (IASF-CNR, Bologna), E. Pian (INAF, OA Trieste), J.
Hjorth (U. Copenhagen), A. Castro-Tirado (IAA-CSIC, Granada), H.
Boehnhardt (ESO), P. Price (RSAA, ANU), on behalf of the GRACE
collaboration, report:
"On 2002 April 6.213 UT we have taken a 30 min spectrum of the candidate
afterglow of GRB020405 (GCN 1326) with the VLT equipped with FORS1 and low
resolution grating 150I+OG590. After a preliminary analysis of the
spectrum, narrow emission lines, likely from the host galaxy, are seen
which may be identified with [O II], [O III] and Hbeta at a redshift of
0.695 +- 0.005. At the same redshift we also detect the Ca II doublet in
absorption.
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