[vsnet-grb-info 6168] GRB080603: NOT redshift

[GCN Circulars]

TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  7797
SUBJECT: GRB080603: NOT redshift
DATE:    08/06/03 23:00:16 GMT
FROM:    Johan U. Fynbo at U.Copenhagen  <jfynbo at astro.ku.dk>

Johan Fynbo (DARK/NBI), Pierre-Olivier Quirion (Univ. Aarhus), Daniele
Malesani, C. C. Thoene, J. Hjorth, B. Milvang-Jensen (DARK/NBI), and Pall
Jakobsson (Univ. Hertfordshire) report on behalf of a larger
collaboration:

We observed the field of GRB 080603B (Mangano et al., GCN 7794) with the
NOT telescope. We obtained R-band imaging and a low resolution
spectrum using the AlFOSC instrument. Based on the detection of
Lyman-alpha and a number of relatively strong metal lines we infer a
redshift of 2.69.