[vsnet-grb-info 14922] GRB 140506A: VLT/X-shooter spectroscopy

[GCN Circulars]

TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  16217
SUBJECT: GRB 140506A: VLT/X-shooter spectroscopy
DATE:    14/05/07 10:06:33 GMT
FROM:    Dong Xu at DARK/NBI  <dong.dark at gmail.com>

J. P. U. Fynbo (DARK/NBI), N. R. Tanvir (U. Leicester), P. Jakobsson
(U. Iceland), D. Xu, D. Malesani, B. Milvang-Jensen  (DARK/NBI) report
on behalf of the X-shooter GRB collaboration:

We observed the optical afterglow of GRB 140506A (Gompertz et al., GCN
16214) with the VLT/X-shooter spectrograph, equipped with the
UVB/VIS/NIR arms and covering the wavelength range 3000-25000 AA.