GRB050904 at redshift 6.3: observations of the oldest cosmic explosion after the Big Bang: Observations of the oldest cosmic explosion after the Big Bang

G Tagliaferri, LA Antonelli, G Chincarini, A Fernandez-Soto, D Malesani, M Della Valle, P D'Avanzo, A Grazian, V Testa, S Campana, S Covino, F Fiore, L Stella, AJ Castro-Tirado, J Gorosabel, DN Burrows, M Capalbi, G Cusumano, ML Conciatore, V D'EliaP Filliatre, D Fugazza, N Gehrels, D Guetta, S Guziy, EV Held, K Hurley, GL Israel, M Jelinek, D Lazzati, A Lopez-Echarri, A Melandri, IF Mirabel, M Moles, A Moretti, KO Mason, J Nousek, J Osborne, LJ Pellizza, R Perna, S Piranomonte, L Piro, AD Postigo, P Romano

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We present optical and near-infrared observations of the afterglow of the gamma-ray burst GRB 050904. We derive a photometric redshift z = 6.3, estimated from the presence of the Lyman break falling between the I and J filters. This is by far the most distant GRB known to date. Its isotropic-equivalent energy is 3.4 × 1053 erg in the rest-frame 110-1100 keV energy band. Despite the high redshift, both the prompt and the afterglow emission are not peculiar with respect to other GRBs. We find a break in the J-band light curve at tb = 2.6 ± 1.0 d (observer frame). If we assume this is the jet break, we derive a beaming-corrected energy Eγ ∼ (4 ÷ 12) × 1051 erg. This limit shows that GRB 050904 is consistent with the Amati and Ghirlanda relations. This detection is consistent with the expected number of GRBs at z > 6 and shows that GRBs are a powerful tool to study the star formation history UD to very high redshift.

اللغة الأصليةالإنجليزيّة
الصفحات (من إلى)L1-L5
دوريةAstronomy and Astrophysics
مستوى الصوت443
رقم الإصدار1
المعرِّفات الرقمية للأشياء
حالة النشرنُشِر - نوفمبر 2005
منشور خارجيًانعم

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