Gemini spectroscopy of the afterglow of GRB060210

A. Cucchiara; D. B. Fox; B. E. Penprase; E. Berger; P. Price; B. P. Schmidt; K. Roth; S. B. Cenko

doi:10.1393/ncb/i2007-10286-9

Gemini spectroscopy of the afterglow of GRB060210

A. Cucchiara^*, D. B. Fox, B. E. Penprase, E. Berger, P. Price, B. P. Schmidt, K. Roth, S. B. Cenko

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We present a resolution R ≈ 6000 optical spectrum of the afterglow of GRB060210 obtained with GMOS spectrograph on the Gemini South Telescope. The spectrum shows a main absorption system at redshift z = 3.9122 which we identify as the GRB host galaxy. We identify and characterise a Damped Lya system (DLA) at this redshift with N(HI) = 21.7 ± 0.2, and note the presence of two intervening absorption systems at z = 3.81 and x = 1.47, respectively. An array of metal absorption features is detected in the GRB host galaxy and we determine the column densities for these species. The host galaxy has metallicity Z ∼ 0.1Z _⊙. We detect also the SiII* fine-structure transition.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1455-1457
Number of pages	3
Journal	Nuovo Cimento della Societa Italiana di Fisica B
Volume	121
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1393/ncb/i2007-10286-9
Publication status	Published - Dec 2006

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