LOW-RESOLUTION SPECTROSCOPY OF GAMMA-RAY BURST OPTICAL AFTERGLOWS: BIASES IN THE <i>SWIFT</i> SAMPLE AND CHARACTERIZATION OF THE ABSORBERS

J. P. U. Fynbo(Damien Foundation), Pierre-Olivier Quirion, Д. А. Канн(Thüringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg), T. Augusteijn(Nordic Optical Telescope), P. Jakobsson(University of Iceland), C. Kouveliotou(George Washington University), L. Christensen(European Southern Observatory), A. O. Jaunsen(University of Copenhagen), A. de Ugarte Postigo(Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille), D. Watson(University of Copenhagen), A. J. Levan(Radboud University Nijmegen), J. X. Prochaska(Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe), J. Sollerman(Stockholm University), F. Grundahl(Aarhus University), D. Malesani(University of Copenhagen), E. Pian(National Institute for Astrophysics), N. R. Tanvir(University of Hertfordshire), P. M. Vreeswijk(Radboud University Nijmegen), A. S. Fruchter(Space Telescope Science Institute), N. Masetti(Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica di Bologna), Justyn R. Maund(University of Copenhagen), D. A. Perley(Liverpool John Moores University), D. Xu(Zhejiang Chinese Medical University), B. L. Jensen, J. S. Bloom(University of California, Berkeley), J. H. Telting(Nordic Optical Telescope), Hsiao‐Wen Chen(University of Chicago), A. J. Castro‐Tirado(Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas), G. Björnsson(University of Iceland), B. Milvang‐Jensen(University of Copenhagen), C. C. Thöne(Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía), A. De(Weizmann Institute of Science), R. L. C. Starling(University of Amsterdam), P. Schady(University College London), C. Ledoux(European Southern Observatory), E. Palazzi(Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica di Bologna), E. Rol(University of Amsterdam), J. Gorosabel(Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas), J. F. Graham(Space Telescope Science Institute), K. Wiersema(University of Leicester), M. Nardini(Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati), J. Hjorth(University of Copenhagen)
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November 30, 2009
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