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Faint Object Spectroscopy and GRBs: The Need for a Spectroscopic Laboratory at the VLT

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Acquiring high quality spectra of Gamma-ray Burst afterglows is an observational challenge, as they are transient phenomena at initially unknown redshift. The implications for a spectrograph which can match this challenge are discussed here.

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  1. Division of Astronomy, University of Oulu, P.O. Box 3000, FIN-90014, Finland

    Michael I. Andersen

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  1. Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, 98 bis, Boulevard Arago, 75014, Paris, France

    Jacqueline Bergeron

  2. European Southern Observatory, Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2, 85748, Garching, Germany

    Guy Monnet

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Andersen, M.I. (2002). Faint Object Spectroscopy and GRBs: The Need for a Spectroscopic Laboratory at the VLT. In: Bergeron, J., Monnet, G. (eds) Scientific Drivers for ESO Future VLT/VLTI Instrumentation. ESO Astrophysics Symposia. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-43215-0_3

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