High redshift Gamma-Ray Bursts
Abstract
Ten years of operations of the Swift satellite have allowed us to collect a small sample of long Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) at redshift larger than 6. I will review here the present status of this research field and discuss the possible use of GRBs as a fundamental new tool to explore the early Universe, complementary to quasar and galaxy surveys.
- Publication:
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Journal of High Energy Astrophysics
- Pub Date:
- September 2015
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.jheap.2015.03.001
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1503.03072
- Bibcode:
- 2015JHEAp...7...35S
- Keywords:
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- Gamma-Ray Burst;
- general;
- Cosmology;
- observations;
- Dark ages;
- Reionization;
- First stars;
- Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics;
- Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
- E-Print:
- 12 pages, 4 figures, to be published in the Journal of High Energy Astrophysics special issue: "Swift: Ten Years of Discovery"