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May 2011
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American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #218, #220.06; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 43, 2011
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I will discuss the present status of searches for the highest-redshift gamma-ray bursts using the Swift satellite and follow-up ground-based telescopes including the Gemini Observatory. Gamma-ray bursts can serve as valuable probes of star-forming regions and the evolving ionization of the intergalactic medium at these redshifts; moreover, the redshift distribution of the bursts themselves serves as the unique tracer of high-redshift star formation that is independent of galaxy luminosity-function uncertainties. I will address the current status of the GRB-inferred star formation rate in the context of other measures, and discuss the prospects for refining this GRB metric in the near future with Swift, and later this decade, via the proposed JANUS Explorer mission.
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