GRB 090423 at a redshift of z approximate to 8.1

Salvaterra, R.; Della Valle, M.; Campana, S.; Chincarini, G.; Covino, S.; D'Avanzo, P.; Fernandez-Soto, A.; Guidorzi, C.; Mannucci, F.; Margutti, R.; Thoene, C.; Antonelli, L.; Barthelmy, S.; DE PASQUALE, Massımılıano; D'Elia, V.; Fiore, F.; Fugazza, D.; Hunt, L.; Maiorano, E.; Marinoni, S.; Marshall, F.; Molinari, E.; Nousek, J.; Pian, E.; Racusin, J.; Stella, L.; Amati, L.; Andreuzzi, G.; Cusumano, G.; Fenimore, E.; Ferrero, P.; Giommi, P.; Guetta, D.; Holland, S.; Hurley, K.; Israel, G.; Mao, J.; Markwardt, C.; Masetti, N.; Pagani, C.; Palazzi, E.; Palmer, D.; Piranomonte, S.; Tagliaferri, G.; Testa, V.

doi:10.1038/nature08445

GRB 090423 at a redshift of z approximate to 8.1

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Salvaterra R., Della Valle M., Campana S., Chincarini G., Covino S., D'Avanzo P., ...Daha Fazla

NATURE, cilt.461, sa.7268, ss.1258-1260, 2009 (SCI-Expanded)

Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
Cilt numarası: 461 Sayı: 7268
Basım Tarihi: 2009
Doi Numarası: 10.1038/nature08445
Dergi Adı: NATURE
Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
Sayfa Sayıları: ss.1258-1260
İstanbul Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are produced by rare types of massive stellar explosion. Their rapidly fading afterglows are often bright enough at optical wavelengths that they are detectable at cosmological distances. Hitherto, the highest known redshift for a GRB was z = 6.7 (ref. 1), for GRB 080913, and for a galaxy was z = 6.96 (ref. 2). Here we report observations of GRB 090423 and the near-infrared spectroscopic measurement of its redshift, z = 8.1(-0.3)(+0.1). This burst happened when the Universe was only about 4 per cent of its current age(3). Its properties are similar to those of GRBs observed at low/intermediate redshifts, suggesting that the mechanisms and progenitors that gave rise to this burst about 600,000,000 years after the Big Bang are not markedly different from those producing GRBs about 10,000,000,000 years later.