A γ-ray burst at a redshift of z ≈ 8.2

By N. Tanvir, D. Fox, A. Levan, E. Berger, K. Wiersema, Johan Peter Uldall Fynbo, A. Cucchiara, T. Krühler, N. Gehrels, J. Bloom and 53 more. Nature, 2009

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• Rapid Reionization by the Oligarchs: The Case for Massive, UV-bright, Star-forming Galaxies with High Escape Fractions (2019, background): “We exclude some measurements: gamma ray burst (GRB) damping spectra, while probing some of the highest redshifts (Totani et al. 2006; Tanvir et al. 2009; Chornock et al. 2013), preferentially arise out of low-mass halos (Savaglio et al. 2009).”
• Stellar population effects on the inferred photon density at reionization (2015, background): “A small but growing number of quasar host galaxies are also known at z > 7 (Mortlock et al. 2011) while gamma-ray bursts have been identified at z > 8, and their host galaxies constrained (Tanvir et al. 2009, 2012; Berger et al. 2014).”
• Observational probes of cosmic acceleration (2012, background): “Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are highly luminous, so they can be detected to much higher redshifts than optical supernovae; the current record holder is at z ≈ 8.2 (Tanvir et al., 2009; Salvaterra et al., 2009).”
• Swift J1112.2−8238: a candidate relativistic tidal disruption flare (2015, background): “Relativistic TDFs are potentially observable out to much greater distances than their non-relativistic thermal TDF cousins due to their beamed emission, analogous to how GRBs have been shown to be detectable to extreme redshifts (e.g. GRB090423, Tanvir et al. 2009; Salvaterra et al. 2009).”
• The SEDs and host galaxies of the dustiest GRB afterglows (2011, background): “These optically dark bursts could be caused by either high-redshift (e.g., Greiner et al. 2009; Tanvir et al. 2009; Salvaterra et al. 2009; Cucchiara et al. 2011), large column densities of dust (e.g., Klose et al. 2000, 2003; Tanvir et al. 2008; Perley et al. 2011b) or an intrinsically fainter…”
• The physics of gamma-ray bursts & relativistic jets (2014, background): “The recent discoveries of GRBs at redshifts of 8.26 (Tanvir et al., 2009; Salvaterra et al., 2009) and 9.4 (Cucchiara et al., 2011b) have established that GRBs did indeed occur when the universe was young (z = 9.4 corresponds to 525 million years after the big bang).”
• Galaxies at z = 6 - 9 from the WFC3/IR imaging of the HUDF (2009, background): “Most recently, spectacular direct evidence of action atz > 8 has been provided by the discovery of a gamma ray burst atz ≃ 8.2 (Tanvir et al. 2009; Salvaterra et al. 2009).”
• Production of dust by massive stars at high redshift (2011, background): “…et al, 2011) while the earliest observationally galaxies detected so far include a spectroscopically confirmedz= 8.2 gamma-ray burst host galaxy (Tanvir et al, 2009; Salvaterra et al, 2009), a gal xy reported to be at a spectroscopic redshift ofz = 8.6 (Lehnert et al, 2010), a gamma-ray burst…”