Exciting times, as the SWIFT satellite lives up to its promise of high-redshift gamma ray bursts. The link is very good, with lots of basic information, even animations, expaining what we think gamma ray bursts are. I *think* we observed, or tried to observe, this burst from our local observatory WIRO. At its high redshift, we probably just got limits with the optical camera that was on the telescope. I'll have to check with my student Cassandra Paul who was on and targeted a burst last week.
Posted by Mike at September 13, 2005 10:23 PM