Discovery and Identification of the Very High Redshift Afterglow of GRB 050908 and Prospects for the Future

Dan Reichart

Discovery and Identification of the Very High Redshift Afterglow of GRB 050908 and Prospects for the Future

COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

Abstract

I will report our discovery of the afterglow of GRB 050904 and our identification of GRB 050904 as the first very high redshift GRB. I will also discuss prospects for the future use of GRBs as probes of the early universe.

April 25, 2006, 11:57 AM – April 25, 2006, 12:33 PM

Authors

Dan Reichart

University of North Carolina