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The Radio Afterglow and Host Galaxy of the Dark Grb 020819
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Jakobsson, Páll Frail, Dale A. Fox, Derek B. Moon, D. S. Price, Paul A. Kulkarni, Shri R. Fynbo, Johan Peter Uldall Hjorth, Jens Vestergaard Berger, E. T. McNaught, Rosemary Dahle, H̊akon |
| Copyright Year | 2005 |
| Abstract | Of the fourteen gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) localized to better than 2 radius with the SXC on HETE-2, only two lack optical afterglow detections, and the high recovery rate among this sample has been used to argue that the fraction of truly dark bursts is ∼10%. While a large fraction of earlier dark bursts can be explained by the failure of ground-based searches to reach appropriate limiting magnitudes, suppression of the optical light of these SXC dark bursts seems likely. Here we report the discovery and observation of the radio afterglow of GRB 020819, an SXC dark burst, which enables us to identify the likely host galaxy (probability of 99.2%) and hence the redshift (z = 0.41) of the GRB. The radio light curve is qualitatively similar to that of several other radio afterglows, and may include an early-time contribution from the emission of the reverse shock. The proposed host is a bright R = 19.5mag barred spiral galaxy, with a faint R ≈ 24.0mag “blob” of emission, 3 from the galaxy core (16 kpc in projection), that is coincident with the radio afterglow. Optical photometry of the galaxy and blob, beginning 3 hours after the burst and extending over more than 100 days, establishes strong upper limits to the optical brightness of any afterglow or associated supernova. Combining the afterglow radio fluxes and our earliest R-band limit, we find that the most likely afterglow model invokes a spherical expansion into a constant-density (rather than stellar wind-like) external environment; within the context of this model, a modest local extinction of AV ≈ 1mag is sufficient to suppress the optical flux below our limits. Subject headings: dust, extinction — galaxies: high-redshift — gamma rays: bursts |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0505035v1.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Active galactic nucleus Bandlimiting Extinction, Psychological GZMB wt Allele Gamma correction Interferon Type II Lindane Medical Subject Headings Photometry Radiation Redshift Sensor Shock Stellar (payment network) Stellar Wind Zero suppression |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
