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MODERN TRENDS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SEMINAR - Dr. hab. Michał Michałowski

We kindly invite you to the first meeting of the Modern Trends in Physics Research seminar 2021/22 to be held on October 6th at 13:00 (an informal part starts at 12:30). The meeting will be held on-line only. Dr. hab. Michał Michałowski (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań) will speak about Revising distance by 20 orders of magnitude: the most distant gamma-ray burst or a satellite?

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Sincerely Yours

Sławomir Breiter,
Jacek Gapiński,
Jarosław W. Kłos,
and Ireneusz Weymann

Abstract:

Recently there was a discovery of the most distant gamma-ray burst (GRB) ever recorded -in a galaxy at redshift 11, which means that we see it as it was only 400 million years after the Big Bang. The existence of such a distant GRB would have important consequences on our understanding of the conditions in which the first stars in the Universe formed and of the formation of the first galaxies. I will show that this signal was in fact Solar emission reflected off a space debris, the Breeze-M upper stage of a Russian Proton rocket. Unfortunately, such misidentifications will happen more often given that the number of satellites and space debris increases.