TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  3136
SUBJECT: GRB 050319: Absorption redshift from the Nordic Optical Telescope
DATE:    05/03/22 09:08:13 GMT
FROM:    Johan U. Fynbo at U.Copenhagen  <jfynbo@astro.ku.dk>

GRB 050319: Absorption redshift from the Nordic Optical Telescope

Johan P. U. Fynbo, Jens Hjorth, Brian L. Jensen, Pall Jakobsson
(Niels Bohr Institute), Palle Moller (ESO), Jyri N�r�nen (Nordic 
Optical Telescope) report:

"Using ALFOSC on the Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT) we have obtained 
spectra of the afterglow of GRB 050319 (GCN 3116, 3117) on 2005, 
March 20 UT. We find several absorption features, including strong 
Lyman-alpha, OI+SiII, SiIV and CIV, corresponding to a redshift of
z=3.24."