伽玛暴(Gamma-Ray Burst)笔记。记录有关伽玛暴的新文章,另外也包括看的老文章、自己的想法、以及跟天文相关的一些东西。 Feel free to leave me a message by comments or by email.

星期四, 十一月 30, 2006

Gonzalez-Garcia 2006 伽玛暴的中微子辐射限定量子引力 2

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跟用伽玛光子一样的,也是用不同能量中微子的速度不一样来定量子引力能标下限。

(既然这样,不可以通过光子和中微子的到达时间来做吗?)


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hep-ph/0611359 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Gamma Ray Burst Neutrinos Probing Quantum Gravity
Authors: M.C. Gonzalez-Garcia, F. Halzen
Comments: 14 pages, 2 figures

Very high energy, short wavelength, neutrinos may interact with the space-time foam predicted by theories of quantum gravity. They would propagate like light through a crystal lattice and be delayed, with the delay depending on the energy. This will appear to the observer as a violation of Lorenz invariance. Back of the envelope calculations imply that observations of neutrinos produced by gamma ray bursts may reach Planck-scale sensitivity. We revisit the problem considering two essential complications: the imprecise timing of the neutrinos associated with their poorly understood production mechanism in the source and the indirect nature of their energy measurement made by high energy neutrino telescopes.

Ofek2006 至少1%的短暴是SGR

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astro-ph/0611860 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: SGRs in nearby galaxies: rate, luminosity function and fraction among short GRBs
Authors: Eran O. Ofek (Caltech)
Comments: 8 pages, ApJ, accepted

It was suggested that some of the short-duration Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRB) are giant flares of Soft Gamma-ray Repeaters (SGR) in nearby galaxies. To test this hypothesis, I have constructed a sample of 47 short GRBs, detected by the Inter-Planetary Network (IPN), for which the position is constrained by at least one annulus on the celestial sphere. For each burst, I have checked whether its IPN 3-sigma error region coincides with the apparent disk of one of 316 galaxies found within 20 Mpc. I find a single match of a GRB with M74, which could, however, be due to a chance coincidence. I estimate the IPN efficiency as a function of fluence and derive the galaxy sample completeness. I find that assuming there is a cut-off in the observed energy distribution of SGR flares at <10^47>

星期一, 十一月 27, 2006

van Marle 2006 长暴的暴周环境 4

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也说是ISM和wind,给了个新名词:暴周环境的简写-CSM。指出在余辉的谱上有蓝移的现象(这种谱应该是CSM的吸收导致),说明CSM在远离中心源,就应该是wind了。

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astro-ph/0611812 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Models for the circumstellar medium of long gamma-ray burst progenitor candidates
Authors: A.J. van Marle, N. Langer, A. Achterberg, G. Garcia-Segura
Comments: To appear in the proceedings of: "Circumstellar Media and Late Stages of Massive Stellar Evolution", September 4-8, 2006, Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico

We present hydrodynamical models of circumstellar medium (CSM) of long gamma-ray burst (GRB) progenitor candidates. These are massive stars that have lost a large amount of mass in the form of stellar wind during their evolution.
There are two possible ways to probe the CSM of long GRB progenitors. Firstly, the GRB afterglow consists of synchrotron radiation, emitted when the GRB jet sweeps up the surrounding medium. Therefore, the lightcurve is directly related to the density profile of the CSM. The density can either decrease with the radius squared (as is the case for a freely expanding stellar wind) or be constant (as we would expect for shocked wind or the interstellar medium). Secondly, material between the GRB and the observer will absorb part of the afterglow radiation, causing absorption lines in the afterglow spectrum. In some cases, such absorption lines are blue-shifted relative to the source indicating that the material is moving away from the progenitor star. This can be explained in terms of wind interactions in the CSM. We can use the CSM of these stars to investigate their prior evolutionary stage.

星期日, 十一月 26, 2006

Zhang2006 伽玛暴余辉小综述(swift时期)

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其中详细讨论X射线和光学几乎没有同时的jet break,这给喷流模型带来了很大的挑战。

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astro-ph/0611774 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Gamma-ray burst afteglows
Authors: Bing Zhang (UNLV)
Comments: 18 pages, solicitated contribution to COSPAR 2006 (Beijing), submitted to Advances in Space Research

Extended, fading emissions in multi-wavelength are observed following Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Recent broad-band observational campaigns led by the Swift Observatory reveal rich features of these GRB afterglows. Here we review the latest observational progress and discuss the theoretical implications for understanding the central engine, composition, and geometric configuration of GRB jets, as well as their interactions with the ambient medium.

Thoene2006 谱分析GRB030329的ISM

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astro-ph/0611772 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: ISM studies of GRB 030329 with high resolution spectroscopy
Authors: Christina C. Thoene (MPE, DARK), Jochen Greiner (MPE), Sandra Savaglio (MPE), Emmanuel Jehin (ESO)
Comments: 11 pages, 4 figures, submitted to ApJ

We present a series of early UVES/VLT high resolution spectra of the afterglow of GRB 030329 at redshift z=0.16867+-0.00001. In contrast to other spectra from this burst, both emission and absorption lines were detected. None of them showed any temporal evolution. From the emission lines, we determine the properties of the host galaxy which has a star formation rate (SFR) of 0.198 M_solar yr^-1 and a low metallicity of 1/7 Z_solar. Given the low total stellar host mass M_star=10^7.75+-0.15 M_solar and an absolute luminosity m_V=-16.37, we derive specific SFRs (SSFR) of log SFR/M = -8.5 yr^-1 and SFR/L = 14.1 M_solar yr^-1 L_*^-1. This fits well into the picture of GRB hosts as being low mass, low metallicity, actively star forming galaxies. The MgII and MgI absorption lines from the host show multiple narrow (Doppler width b=5-10 km/s) components spanning a range of v about 260 km/s, mainly blueshifted compared to the redshift from the emission lines. These components are likely probing outflowing material of the host galaxy, which could arise from former galactic superwinds, driven by supernovae from star forming regions. Similar features have been observed in QSO spectra. The outflowing material is mainly neutral with high column densities of log N(MgII)=14.0+-0.1 cm^-2 and log N(MgI)=12.3+-0.1 cm^-2.

Beskin2006 SGR1806-20的光学活动观测

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astro-ph/0611752 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Search for optical activity of SGR 1806-20
Authors: G. Beskin, V. Debur, V. Plokhotnichenko, S. Karpov, A. Biryukov, L. Chmyreva, A. Pozanenko, K. Hurley
Comments: 4 pages, 2 figures. To appear in ApSS, in the proceedings of the conference "Isolated Neutron Stars: from the Interior to the Surface", London, April 2006; eds. S. Zane, R. Turolla and D. Page

The region of SGR 1806-20 localization was observed during its gamma-ray activity in 2001. The observations have been performed on the 6-meter telescope of the Special Astrophysical Observatory, using the Panoramic Photometer-Polarimeter (PPP). The search for variability was performed on the $10^{-6}$ - 10 s time scale, and its results were compared to the properties of corresponding x-ray flares.

Guidorzi2006 GRB051111的余辉观测

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astro-ph/0611732 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: The circumburst environment of a FRED GRB: study of the prompt emission and X-ray/optical afterglow of GRB 051111
Authors: C. Guidorzi (1), et al
Comments: accepted to A&A on Nov. 10 (14 pages, 8 figures)

We report a multi-wavelength analysis of the prompt emission and early afterglow of GRB051111 and discuss its properties in the context of current fireball models. The detection of GRB051111 by the Burst Alert Telescope on-board Swift triggered early BVRi' observations with the 2-m robotic Faulkes Telescope North in Hawaii, as well as X-ray observations with the Swift X-Ray Telescope. The prompt gamma-ray emission shows a classical FRED profile. The optical afterglow light curves are fitted with a broken power law, with alpha_1=0.35 to alpha_2=1.35 and a break time around 12 minutes after the GRB. Although contemporaneous X-ray observations were not taken, a power law connection between the gamma-ray tail of the FRED temporal profile and the late XRT flux decay is feasible. Alternatively, if the X-ray afterglow tracks the optical decay, this would represent one of the first GRBs for which the canonical steep-shallow-normal decay typical of early X-ray afterglows has been monitored optically. We present a detailed analysis of the intrinsic extinction, elemental abundances and spectral energy distribution. From the absorption measured in the low X-ray band we find possible evidence for an overabundance of some alpha elements such as oxygen, [O/Zn]=0.7+/-0.3, or, alternatively, for a significant presence of molecular gas. The IR-to-X-ray Spectral Energy Distribution measured at 80 minutes after the burst is consistent with the cooling break lying between the optical and X-ray bands. Extensive modelling of the intrinsic extinction suggests dust with big grains or grey extinction profiles. The early optical break is due either to an energy injection episode or, less probably, to a stratified wind environment for the circumburst medium.

星期六, 十一月 25, 2006

吸积盘的角动量损失

1。 恒星形成的角动量损失
from: http://iask.games.sina.com.cn/b/5723040.html

“角动量损失和磁场分离则仍然是两个无法解决的问题;我们只能指出一、二种解决这些难题的可能途径。

。。。

一个可能的途径就是仅仅收集对银心有相同角动量的那些物质。比方说,如果假定全部气体粒子都绕着银心作圆周运动,那么我们就只能收集到距银心为某个确定半径Rc的一个环上的物质。


以上从一个侧面反应出太阳系的角动量比原始星云由于交差转动形成的角动量小,意味着在从星云形成恒星的过程中有角动量损失到太阳系之外。

2。有文章专门介绍角动量的转移

astro-ph/9902335

Evolution of Disk Accretion

Authors: Nuria Calvet, Lee Hartmann, Stephen E. Strom
Comments: 21 pages, 7 Postscript figures. To appear in Protostars and Planets IV, University of Arizona Press
We review the present knowledge of disk accretion in young low mass stars, and in particular, the mass accretion rate and its evolution with time. The methods used to obtain mass accretion rates from ultraviolet excesses and emission lines are described, and the current best estimates of mass accretion rate for Classical T Tauri stars and for objects still surrounded by infalling envelopes are given. We argue that the low mass accretion rates of the latter objects require episodes of high mass accretion rate to build the bulk of the star. Similarity solutions for viscous disk evolution suggest that the inner disk mass accretion rates can be self-consistently understood in terms of the disk mass and size if the viscosity parameter alpha is approximately 1e-2. Close companion stars may accelerate the disk accretion process, resulting in accretion onto the central star in less or equal than 1Myr; this may help explain the number of very young stars which are not currently surrounded by accretion disks (the weak emission T Tauri stars).

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其中有说“his may help explain the number of very young stars which are not currently surrounded by accretion disks”。也就是存在一些没有盘的年轻恒星,那它们的角动量跑哪儿去了呢?

在文章15页中说盘可以一致膨胀,使得角动量保持不变。14页反对Pudritz and
Norman 1983, Konigl 1989认为角动量可以通过外盘区的盘风损失。说是在他的Hartmann
1995中讲了。那下面就看看这篇文章怎么说的。

ft,是一篇会议文章,通过观测的,因为题目是:“Observational Constraints on Disk Winds”

不过下面有一篇他在ApJ上的文章,内容应该相同:

3。 通过盘风损失角动量的不支持观测证据
Title:
Observational constraints on FU ORI winds
Authors:
Hartmann, Lee; Calvet, Nuria
Publication:
Astronomical Journal (ISSN 0004-6256), vol. 109, no. 4, p. 1846-1855 (AJ Homepage)
Publication Date:
04/1995

Abstract

We have searched for velocity shifts in the photospheric lines of four FU Orionis objects that could show that their winds originate from the surfaces of pre-main sequence accretion disks. We confirm the pattern of photospheric line shifts in FU Ori first observed by Petrov and Herbig, in which increasingly strong photospheric lines are increasingly blueshifted as the two absorption components move closer together in wavelength. We show that this pattern is precisely that predicted by a disk wind model: the profiles of the weaker lines exhibit mostly Keplerian rotation, and thus should show nearly symmetric double-peaked absorption, while the stronger lines, formed farther out in the expanding wind, are more blueshifted and less doublepeaked. These observations provide at present the only direct evidence for a continuously accelerating wind originating from the surface of a pre-main-sequence disk. Similar velocity shifts are not observed in the photosheric lines of V1057 Cyg, V1515 Cyg, and Z CMa, even though all exhibit strong blueshifted absorption in the Na I and H-beta line profiles. We suggest that the Na I and H-beta lines are generally saturated and thus not sensitve measures of mass loss rates, and that V1057 Cyg and V1515 Cyg have smaller mass loss rates than FU Ori. Z CMa may have a mass loss rate similar to that of FU Ori, but photospheric velocity shifts may be less apparent because Z CMa has a higher projected rotational velocity. Our estimates of mass loss rates do not support the extreme wind model, in which all of the angular momentum needed for accretion is removed by the wind.

注意最后一句话:“Our estimates of mass loss rates do not support the extreme wind model, in which all of the angular momentum needed for accretion is removed by the wind.”

4。 借助磁场

astro-ph/9903168

Disk Winds and the Accretion--Outflow Connection

Authors: Arieh Konigl (University of Chicago), Ralph E. Pudritz (McMaster University)
Comments: 32 pages, 3 figures, TeX, to appear in Protostars and Planets IV, ed. V. Mannings, A. Boss, and S. Russell (Arizona: University of Arizona Press)
We review recent observational and theoretical results on the relationship between circumstellar accretion disks and jets in young stellar objects. We then present a theoretical framework that interprets jets as accretion-powered, centrifugally driven winds from magnetized accretion disks. Recent progress in the numerical simulation of such outflows is described. We also discuss the structure of the underlying magnetized protostellar disks, emphasizing the role that large-scale, open magnetic fields can play in angular momentum transport.

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上面abstract说大尺度开放的磁场可以用以转移角动量出去。

这里:http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/plasma/lectures/node68.html
也提供了类似的说法,说磁场可以帮助带走角动量,不过对象是太阳的星风。

5. 如果是星系的话,还会牵涉到暗物质。

这里有一篇最近2006年的MN上的文章,专门介绍星系角动量的损失。
Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 372, 1525–1530 (2006)
How galaxies lose their angular momentum
ABSTRACT
The processes are investigated by which gas loses its angular momentum during the protogalactic collapse phase, leading to disc galaxies that are too compact with respect to the observations. High-resolution N-body/SPH simulations in a cosmological context are presented including cold gas and dark matter (DM). A halo with quiet merging activity since redshift z ∼ 3.8 and with a high-spin parameter is analysed that should be an ideal candidate for the formation of an extended galactic disc. We show that the gas and the DM have similar specific angular momenta until a merger event occurs at z ∼ 2 with a mass ratio of 5:1. All the gas involved in the merger loses a substantial fraction of its specific angular momentum due to tidal torques and dynamical friction processes falls quickly into the centre. In contrast, gas infall through small subclumps or accretion does not lead to catastrophic angular momentum loss . In fact, a new extended disc begins to form from gas that was not involved in the 5:1 merger event and that falls in subsequently. We argue that the angular momentum problem of disc galaxy formation is a merger problem: in cold dark matter cosmology substantial mergers with mass ratios of 1:1 to 6:1 are expected to occur in almost all galaxies. We suggest that energetic feedback processes could in principle solve this problem, however only if the heating occurs at the time or shortly before the last substantial merger event. Good candidates for such a coordinated feedback would be a merger-triggered starburst or central black hole heating. If a large fraction of the low angular momentum gas would be ejected, late-type galaxies could form with a dominant extended disc component, resulting from late infall, a small bulge-to-disc ratio and a low baryon fraction, in agreement with observations.


一个可行的方案,参见“小问题集”137页。

星期五, 十一月 24, 2006

最近GRB新进展小结

上周去南大呆了一周,主要是玩掉了,不过从戴老师和组里还是了解到了最近伽玛暴的一些进展和谜团,小结如下:

1、 GRB060614的观测,红移低,无超新星成协。这是上了Nature的,astro-ph上也看得到。有可能提出新的暴的分类,不按时间长短,而是是否有超新星成协(大致),有则为大质量恒星坍缩起源;无则为双致密星起源。戴老师给我看的,忘了是哪篇文章上的了。好像是张冰提出来的。


2、 大量swift观测的暴的光学余辉和X射线余辉不一致,包括谱指数、时间指数和拐折时间。刘学文对近期有光学余辉观测的暴做了一个总结性的ppt。这些不一致不能简单地用频率穿过来解释,很有可能二者来自不同的区域,那么是正反激波的正向和反向辐射,双成分喷流的窄成分和宽成分,能量注入的外激波和注入激波,还是有其他的机制?

3、 GRB060729(好像还有另外的暴050416?),能观测到100天以后的X射线余辉辐射。

4、 GRB061007的X射线和光学余辉,从100s到10^6s以上,都是一条非常漂亮的幂律下降的形式。很不可思议。

用戴老师的话说,现在伽玛暴又处在一个要取得重要突破的阶段了。

今天astro-ph无更新

今天星期五啊,奇怪,居然没有更新。以前看到cn镜像没更新,然后到主站都是正常更新了的。今天居然主站没有更新。而且所有arxiv系列的都没有更新。

动力学能动量守恒推导时的一个问题

在余辉动力学的推导中,才用动量守恒时是考虑辐射光子的极束效应,认为光子全部是辐射(E_g)向前的,然后对应的动量是E_g/c。这是不对的。(见小问题集2006.11.24)

星期三, 十一月 22, 2006

Vreeswijk2006 GRB060418余辉谱的观测 3

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观测到紫外pumping,认为是周围环境的荧光辐射。给出了比较详细的谱和各种吸收线。

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astro-ph/0611690 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Rapid-Response Mode VLT/UVES spectroscopy of GRB060418: Conclusive evidence for UV pumping from the time evolution of FeII and NiII excited- and metastable-level populations
Authors: P.M. Vreeswijk, C. Ledoux, A. Smette, S.L. Ellison, A. Jaunsen, M. I. Andersen, A.S. Fruchter, J.P.U. Fynbo, J. Hjorth, A. Kaufer, P. Moller, P. Petitjean, S. Savaglio, R.A.M.J. Wijers
Comments: 15 pages, 9 figures, submitted to A&A

We present high-resolution spectroscopic observations of GRB 060418, obtained with VLT/UVES. These observations were triggered using the VLT Rapid-Response Mode (RRM), which allows for automated observations of transient phenomena, without any human intervention. This resulted in the first UVES exposure of GRB 060418 to be started only 10 minutes after the initial Swift satellite trigger. A sequence of spectra covering 330-670 nm were acquired at 11, 16, 25, 41 and 71 minutes (mid-exposure) after the trigger, with a resolving power of 7 km/s, and a signal-to-noise ratio of 10-15. This time-series clearly shows evidence for time variability of allowed transitions involving Fe II fine-structure levels, and metastable levels of both Fe II and Ni II, at the host-galaxy redshift z=1.490. We model the observed evolution of the level populations with three different excitation mechanisms: collisions, excitation by infra-red photons, and fluorescence following excitation by ultraviolet photons. Our data allow us to reject the collisional and IR excitation scenarios with high confidence. The UV pumping model, in which the GRB afterglow UV photons excite a cloud of atoms with a column density N, distance d, and Doppler broadening parameter b, provides an excellent fit, with best-fit values: log N(Fe II)=14.75+/-0.06, log N(Ni II)=13.8+/-0.02, d=1.7+/-0.2 kpc, and b=25+/-3 km/s. No significant amount of Fe II or Ni II is present at distances smaller than \~1.7 kpc, most likely because it is ionized by the GRB X-ray/UV flash. The UV pumping fit constrains two GRB afterglow parameters: the spectral slope, beta=-0.44+0.64-1.05, and the total rest-frame UV flux that irradiated the cloud since the GRB trigger, constraining the magnitude of a possible UV flash. [abridged]

Hurley1998 SGR1900+14的观测 2

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这次SGR的时间是1998年8月27日。

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A giant, periodic flare from the soft gamma repeater SGR1900+14

Authors: K. Hurley, T. Cline, E. Mazets, S. Barthelmy, P. Butterworth, F. Marshall, D. Palmer, R. Aptekar, S. Golenetskii, V. Il'Inskii, D. Frederiks, J. McTiernan, R. Gold, J. Trombka
Comments: Accepted for publication in Nature
Soft gamma repeaters are high-energy transient sources associated with neutron stars in young supernova remnants. They emit sporadic, short (~ 0.1 s) bursts with soft energy spectra during periods of intense activity. The event of March 5, 1979 was the most intense and the only clearly periodic one to date. Here we report on an even more intense burst on August 27, 1998, from a different soft gamma repeater, which displayed a hard energy spectrum at its peak, and was followed by a ~300 s long tail with a soft energy spectrum and a dramatic 5.16 s period. Its peak and time integrated energy fluxes at Earth are the largest yet observed from any cosmic source. This event was probably initiated by a massive disruption of the neutron star crust, followed by an outflow of energetic particles rotating with the period of the star. Comparison of these two bursts supports the idea that magnetic energy plays an important role, and that such giant flares, while rare, are not unique, and may occur at any time in the neutron star's activity cycle.

Ji2006 简单的流体力学扰动不能转移吸积盘的角动量 3

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作者通过“实验”, 认为简单的流体力学扰动不能转移吸积盘的角动量。因此间接证明吸积盘角动量的转移必须依靠磁场:magnetorotational instability。

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实验装置

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Vol 444| 16 November 2006| doi:10.1038/nature05323

Hydrodynamic turbulence cannot transport angular momentum effectively in astrophysical disks

Hantao Ji1, Michael Burin1{, Ethan Schartman1 & Jeremy Goodman1

星期一, 十一月 20, 2006

激波只使部分区域加热的情况

在薄层近似的情况下,激波化区是假设均匀的。但实际上刚刚激波化的波后流体和以前激波化的流体可能存在差异,特别是当激波化区太厚或者太密(也可以说外部介质太稀薄),作薄层近似然后均匀化可能是不对的。这个需要重新考虑。(是否回到BM自相似解?)

Jakobsson2006 有伽玛暴的星系的特征

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astro-ph/0611561 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Fundamental Properties of GRB-Selected Galaxies: A Swift/VLT Legacy Survey
Authors: P. Jakobsson, J. Hjorth, J. P. U. Fynbo, J. Gorosabel, A. O. Jaunsen
Comments: 3 pages, 1 figure. To appear in the proceedings of the Eleventh Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity, eds. H. Kleinert, R. T. Jantzen & R. Ruffini, World Scientific, Singapore, 2007

We present the motivation, aims and preliminary result from the Swift/VLT legacy survey on gamma-ray burst host galaxies. This survey will produce a homogeneous and well-understood host sample covering more than 95% of the lookback time to the Big Bang, and allow us to characterize their fundamental properties.

Yoldas2006 GRB011121的宿主星系

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astro-ph/0611555 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: The host galaxy of GRB 011121: Morphology and Spectral Energy Distribution
Authors: Aybuke Kupcu Yoldas (MPE), Mara Salvato (MPE, Caltech), Jochen Greiner (MPE), Daniele Pierini (MPE), Elena Pian (INAF), Arne Rau (MPE, Caltech, INAF)
Comments: accepted for publication in A&A

(Abridged) We present a detailed study of the host galaxy of GRB 011121 (at z = 0.36) based on high-resolution imaging in 5 broad-band, optical and near-infrared filters with HST and VLT/ISAAC. The surface brightness profile of this galaxy is best fitted by a Sersic law with index ~ 2 - 2.5 and a rather large effective radius (~ 7.5 kpc). Both the morphological analysis and the F450W - F702W colour image suggest that the host galaxy of GRB 011121 is either a disk-system with a rather small bulge, or one hosting a central, dust-enshrouded starburst. Hence, we modeled the integrated spectral energy distribution of this galaxy by combining stellar population and radiative transfer models, assuming properties representative of nearby starburst or normal star-forming, Sbc-like galaxies. A range of plausible fitting solutions indicates that the host galaxy of GRB 011121 has a stellar mass of 3.1 - 6.9 x10^9 Msun, stellar populations with a maximum age ranging from 0.4 to 2 Gyr, and a metallicity ranging from 1 to 29 per cent of the solar value. Starburst models suggest this galaxy to be nearly as opaque as local starbursts (with an A_V = 0.27 - 0.76 mag). Alternatively, normal star-forming Sbc-like models suggest a high central opacity whereas A_V = 0.12$ -- 0.57 mag along the line of sight. For this subluminous galaxy (with L_B/Lstar_B = 0.26), we determine a model-dependent SFR of 2.4 - 9.4 Msun/yr. The SFR per unit luminosity (9.2 - 36.1 Msun/yr/(L_B/Lstar_B)) is high compared to those of most GRB host galaxies, but consistent with those of most of the hosts at similar low redshift. Our results suggest that the host galaxy of GRB 011121 is a rather large disk-system in a relatively early phase of its star formation history.

Rol2006 GRB 050716余辉的长时间观测 2

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给出了GRB050716长达10^6秒的余辉观测,包括光变和谱。

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长达1000,000秒的X射线观测
前1000秒的观测


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astro-ph/0611554 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: The early and late-time spectral and temporal evolution of GRB 050716
Authors: E. Rol (1), J. P. Osborne (1), K. L. Page (1), K. E. McGowan (2), A. P. Beardmore (1), P. T .O'Brien (1), A. J. Levan (3), D. Bersier (4,5), C. Guidorzi (5,6), F. Marshall (7), A. S. Fruchter (4), N. R. Tanvir (1,3), A. Monfardini (5), A. Gomboc (5,8), S. Barthelmy (7), N. P. Bannister (1) (1. U. of Leicester, 2. U. of Southampton, 3. U. of Hertfordshire, 4. STScI, 5. Liverpool JMU, 6. Brera Obs., 7. GSFC, 8. U. of Ljubljana)
Comments: Accepted to MNRAS. 8 pages, 5 figures

We report on a comprehensive set of observations of Gamma Ray Burst 050716, detected by the Swift satellite and subsequently followed-up rapidly in X-ray, optical and near infra-red wavebands. The prompt emission is typical of long-duration bursts, with two peaks in a time interval of T90 = 68 seconds (15 - 350 keV). The prompt emission continues at lower flux levels in the X-ray band, where several smaller flares can be seen, on top of a decaying light curve that exhibits an apparent break around 220 seconds post trigger. This temporal break is roughly coincident with a spectral break. The latter can be related to the extrapolated evolution of the break energy in the prompt gamma-ray emission, and is possibly the manifestation of the peak flux break frequency of the internal shock passing through the observing band. A possible 3 sigma change in the X-ray absorption column is also seen during this time. The late-time afterglow behaviour is relatively standard, with an electron distribution power-law index of p = 2 there is no noticable temporal break out to at least 10 days. The broad-band optical/nIR to X-ray spectrum indicates a redshift of z ~> 2 for this burst, with a host-galaxy extinction value of E(B-V) ~ 0.7 that prefers an SMC-like extinction curve.

星期一, 十一月 13, 2006

Giannios2006 伽玛暴光球层的时变和谱

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astro-ph/0611385 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Spectral and timing properties of a dissipative GRB photosphere
Authors: Dimitrios Giannios, Henk C. Spruit (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics)
Comments: 10 pages, 6 figures, A&A, submitted

We explore the observational appearance of the photosphere of an ultrarelativistic flow with internal dissipation of energy as predicted by the magnetic reconnection model. Previous study of the radiative transfer in the photospheric region has shown that gradual dissipation of energy results in a hot photosphere. There, inverse Compton scattering of the thermal radiation advected with the flow leads to powerful photospheric emission with spectral properties close to those of the observed prompt GRB emission. Here, we build on that study by calculating the spectra for a large range of the characteristics of the flow. An accurate fitting formula is given that provides the photospheric spectral energy distribution in the ~10 keV to ~10 MeV energy range (in the central engine frame) as a function of the basic physical parameters of the flow. It facilitates the direct comparison of the model predictions with observations, including the variability properties of the lightcurves. We verify that the model naturally accounts for the observed clustering in peak energies of the E*f(E) spectrum. In this model, the Amati relation indicates a tendency for the most luminous bursts to have more energy per baryon. If this tendency also holds for individual GRB pulses, the model predicts the observed narrowing of the width of pulses with increasing photon energy.

Thompson2006 原始磁星作为伽玛暴的中心引擎

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astro-ph/0611368 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Assessing Millisecond Proto-Magnetars as GRB Central Engines
Authors: Todd A. Thompson
Comments: 10 pages; proceedings of the conference "Triggering Relativistic Jets," held in Cozumel, Mexico, 2005; accepted for publication in Rev. Mex. A&A

Magnetars are a sizable subclass of the neutron star census. Their very high magnetic field strengths are thought to be a consequence of rapid (millisecond) rotation at birth in a successful core-collapse supernova. In their first tens of seconds of existence, magnetars transition from hot, extended ``proto-''magnetars to the cooled and magnetically-dominated objects we identify $\sim10^4$ years later as Soft Gamma-ray Repeaters (SGRs) and Anamolous X-ray Pulsars (AXPs). Millisecond proto-magnetar winds during this cooling phase likewise transition from non-relativistic and thermally-driven to magneto-centrifugally-driven, and finally to relativistic and Poynting-flux dominated. Here we review the basic considerations associated with that transition. In particular, we discuss the spindown of millisecond proto-magnetars throughout the Kelvin-Helmholtz cooling epoch. Because of their large reservoir of rotational energy, their association with supernovae, and the fact that their winds are expected to become highly relativistic in the seconds after their birth, proto-magnetars have been suggested as the central engine of long-duration gamma ray bursts. We discuss some of the issues and outstanding questions in assessing them as such.

星期日, 十一月 12, 2006

再测试一次用writely写blogger。

测试一次用writely写blogger。
呵呵,可以的。就是要写好title,否则就发在最后一次编辑的那个blog上了。

Huang2006 GRB050319的光学余辉

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astro-ph/0611323 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Multi-color Shallow Decay and Chromatic Breaks in the GRB 050319 Optical Afterglow
Authors: K.Y. Huang, Y. Urata, P.H. Kuo, W.H. Ip, K. Ioka, T. Aoki, C.W. Chen, W.P. Chen, M. Isogai, H.C. Lin, K. Makishima, H. Mito, T. Miyata, Y. Nakada, S. Nishiura, K. Onda, Y. Qiu, T. Soyano, T. Tamagawa, K. Tarusawa, M. Tashiro, T. Yoshioka
Comments: 14 pages, 2 figures, accpeted for publication in ApJL

Multi-wavelength B, V, R, I observations of the optical afterglow of GRB 050319 were performed by the 1.05-m telescope at Kiso Observatory and the 1.0-m telescope at Lulin Observatory from 1.31 hours to 9.92 hours after the burst. Our R band lightcurves, combined with other published data, can be described by the smooth broken power-law function, with $\alpha_1$ = -0.84 $\pm$0.02 to $\alpha_2$ = -0.48$\pm$0.03, 0.04 days after the GRB. The optical lightcurves are characterized by shallow decays-- as was also observed in the X-rays-- which may have a similar origin, related to energy injection. However, our observations indicate that there is still a puzzle concerning the chromatic breaks in the R band lightcurve (at 0.04 days) and the X-ray lightcurve (at 0.004 days) that remains to be solved.


Boogs2006 SGR1806-20在2004年12月27日的巨耀发

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astro-ph/0611318 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: The Giant Flare of December 27, 2004 from SGR 1806-20
Authors: Steven E. Boggs, A. Zoglauer, E. Bellm, K. Hurley, R. P. Lin, D. M. Smith, C. Wigger, W. Hajdas
Comments: 32 pages, 14 figures, submitted to ApJ

The giant flare of December 27, 2004 from SGR 1806-20 represents one of the most extraordinary events captured in over three decades of monitoring the gamma-ray sky. One measure of the intensity of the main peak is its effect on X- and gamma-ray instruments. RHESSI, an instrument designed to study the brightest solar flares, was completely saturated for ~0.5 s following the start of the main peak. A fortuitous alignment of SGR 1806-20 near the Sun at the time of the giant flare, however, allowed RHESSI a unique view of the giant flare event, including the precursor, the main peak decay, and the pulsed tail. Since RHESSI was saturated during the main peak, we augment these observations with Wind and RHESSI particle detector data in order to reconstruct the main peak as well. Here we present detailed spectral analysis and evolution of the giant flare. We report the novel detection of a relatively soft fast peak just milliseconds before the main peak, whose timescale and sizescale indicate a magnetospheric origin. We present the novel detection of emission extending up to 17 MeV immediately following the main peak, perhaps revealing a highly-extended corona driven by the hyper-Eddington luminosities. The spectral evolution and pulse evolution during the tail are presented, demonstrating significant magnetospheric twist and evolution during this phase. Blackbody radii are derived for every stage of the flare, which show remarkable agreement despite the range of luminosities and temperatures covered. Finally, we place significant upper limits on afterglow emission in the hundreds of seconds following the giant flare.

星期五, 十一月 10, 2006

期待明天出现一个伽玛暴

让伽玛暴和我过光光节,呵呵
看来岁月不饶人,年纪一大把了,明天可能就是能过的最后一个光光节了。

Re: 测试


再测,用gmail帐号


怎么grblog不能发布,另一个可以呢?
from email



星期四, 十一月 09, 2006

Campana2006 GRB050904周围丰金属分子云

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astro-ph/0611305 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: A metal rich molecular cloud surrounds GRB 050904 at redshift 6.3
Authors: S. Campana (Brera obs.), D. Lazzati (JILA, Colorado Univ.), E. Ripamonti (Kapteyn Inst., Groningen Univ.), R. Perna (JILA, Colorado Univ.), S. Covino (Brera obs.), G. Tagliaferri (Brera obs.), A. Moretti (Brera obs.), P. Romano (Brera obs.), G. Cusumano (IASF Palermo), G. Chincarini (Bicocca-Milano Univ. & Brera obs.)
Comments: 4 pages, 2 figures. Accepted for publication on Astrophysical Journal Letters

GRB050904 is the gamma-ray burst with the highest measured redshift. We performed time resolved X-ray spectroscopy of the late GRB and early afterglow emission. We find robust evidence for a decrease with time of the soft X-ray absorbing column. We model the evolution of the column density due to the flash ionization of the GRB and early afterglow photons. This allows us to constrain the metallicity and geometry of the absorbing cloud. We conclude that the progenitor of GRB050904 was a massive star embedded in a dense metal enriched molecular cloud with Z~0.03 Z_solar. This is the first local measurement of metallicity in the close environment of a GRB and one of the highest redshift metallicity measurements. We also find that the dust associated with the cloud cannot be similar to that of our Galaxy but must be either sizably depleted or dominated by silicate grains. We discuss the implications of these results for GRB progenitors and high redshift star formation.

星期三, 十一月 08, 2006

Lazzati2006 伽玛暴前身星和暴周环境

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astro-ph/0611242 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: GRB progenitors and their environments
Authors: Davide Lazzati (JILA, University of Colorado)
Comments: To appear in the proceedings of the conference "The multicoloured landscape of compact objects and their explosive origins", Cefalu', Italy, June 11-24 2006

The detection of supernova features in the late spectra of several gamma-ray burst afterglows has shown that at least a fraction of long-duration gamma-ray bursts are associated to the final evolutionary stages of massive stars. Such direct observations are impossible for bursts located at redshift beyond z~0.5 and different methods must be used to understand the nature and properties of their progenitors. We review the observational evidence for two particular bursts, for which high quality data are available: GRB 021004 (at z=2.323) and the record redshift GRB 050904 (at z=6.29). We show that both GRBs are likely to be associated to very massive stars, and that in both cases the progenitor stars were able to modify their immediate environments with their radiative and mechanic (wind) luminosity.

Grupe2006 GRB060729的超长X射线余辉观测 3

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观测到一直到100天以后的X射线余辉。还有光学和谱的观测。

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X射线的光变曲线。

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astro-ph/0611240 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Swift and XMM-Newton Observations of the Extraordinary GRB 060729: An afterglow with a more than 100 days X-ray light curve
Authors: Dirk Grupe (PSU), Caryl Gronwall (PSU), Xiang-Yu Wang (PSU), Peter Roming (PSU), Jay Cummings (NASA/GSFC), Bing Zhang (Univ of NV), Peter Meszaros (), Guido Chincarini (INAF-OAB), Takanori Sakamoto (NASA/GSFC), Neil Gehrels (NASA/GSFC)
Comments: Submitted to ApJ, 25 pages, 10 figures

We report the results of the Swift and XMM observations of the Swift-discovered Gamma-Ray Burst GRB 060729. The afterglow of this burst was exceptionally bright in X-rays as well as at UV/Optical wavelengths showing an unusually long slow decay phase suggesting a larger energy injection phase at early times than in other bursts. The X-ray light curve displays a break at about 50 ks after the burst. The X-ray decay slope after the break is 1.3. Up to 100 days after the burst we do not detect a jet break. In the first 2 minutes after the burst (rest frame) the X-ray spectrum of the burst changed dramatically from a hard X-ray spectrum to a very soft one. In the blackbody model we find that the temperature changes from $kT=0.6$ keV at 85 s after the burst to 0.1 keV at 160 s after the burst in the rest frame. In Swift's UV/Optical telescope the afterglow was clearly detected up to 9 days after the burst in all 6 filters and even longer in some of the UV filters with the latest detection in the UVW1 31 days after the burst. The breaks seen in the UVOT light curves appear to occur all within the errors at about 50 ks after the burst. 500 ks after the burst. In addition to the Swift observations we also present and discuss the results from a 61 ks Target-of-Opportunity observation by XMM. These observations show a typical afterglow X-ray spectrum with beta-x=1.1 and and absorption column density of $1\times 10^{21}$ cm$^{-2}$. (Abriviated)

Ghisellini2006 Blazar和伽玛暴

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astro-ph/0611077 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Blazars and Gamma Ray Bursts
Authors: G. Ghisellini (INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, Italy)
Comments: 15 pages, 6 figures; invited talk at the VI Microquasar Workshop: " Microquasars and beyond" Como, September 2006

Blazars and Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) are the fastest objects known so far. The radiation we see from these sources originates in a jet of similar aperture angle, and we think it is the result of the conversion of some of the jet kinetic energy into random motion of the emitting particles. Mechanisms for producing, collimating and accelerating the jets in these sources are uncertain, and it is fruitful to compare the characteristics of both class of sources in search of enlightening similarities. I discuss some general characteristics of blazars and GRBs such as the power of their jets compared with what they can extract through accretion, and the dissipation mechanism operating in the jets of both classes of sources. In both classes, there is a well defined trend between the bolometric power and the frequency at which this power is mainly emitted, but blazars are "redder when brighter", while GRBs are "bluer when brighter". Finally, I discuss some recent exciting prospects to use blazars to put constraints on the cosmic IR-Optical-UV backgrounds, and to use GRBs as standard candles to measure the Universe.

Chen2006 GRB余辉的谱中无WR星的信息

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astro-ph/0611079 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: On the absence of Wolf-Rayet Signatures in GRB Afterglow Spectra: Constraints on the GRB Progenitor Environment
Authors: Hsiao-Wen Chen (U of Chicago), Jason X. Prochaska (UCO/Lick Observatory), Josha S. Bloom (UC Berkeley), Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz (IAS), Miroslava Dessauges-Zavadsky (Geneva Observatory), Ryan J. Foley (UC Berkeley)
Comments: 22 pages, including 13 figures; submitted to ApJ; a complete version with higher-resolution figures is available at this http URL

(Abridged) We carry out a systematic search in a sample of five afterglow spectra for Wolf-Rayet wind signatures, as represented by blue-shifted, high-velocity (|\Delta v| = 1000-5000 km/s CIV 1548, 1550 absorption doublets (designated as CIV_{15}). We report the detection of a CIV_{15} absorber at \Delta v ~ -1500 km/s for GRB 050730 and none in the rest of the sample. Our search yields an estimate of ~20% for the incidence of CIV_{15} absorbers with rest-frame absorption equivalent width of EW(1548)>0.2 Ang from the GRB host galaxies. This is consistent with the incidence of CIV_{15} around classical damped Lya absorbers toward quasar sightlines, and suggests that the majority of CIV_{15} absorbers originate in foreground galaxies. We first demonstrate that the presence of associated HI 1215, CII 1334, or SiII 1260 absorption argues against a CSM origin. The absence of fine-structure absorption such as CII or SiII* further rules out the progenitor-CSM hypothesis, because it indicates negligible UV pumping. The lack of Wolf-Rayet features is consistent with the expectation that the circumburst medium is fully ionized by the afterglow radiation field. The null result therefore constrains the extent of free expanding winds, which we estimate <>

Schady2006 GRB061007的观测

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astro-ph/0611081 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Extreme Properties Of GRB061007: A Highly Energetic Or A Highly Collimated Burst?
Authors: P. Schady, M.De Pasquale, M.J.Page, L.Vetere, S.B.Pandey, X.Y.Wang, J.Cummings, B.Zhang, S.Zane, A.Breeveld, D.N.Burrows, N.Gehrels. C.Gronwall, S.Hunsberger, C.Markwardt, K.O.Mason, P.Meszaros, S.R.Oates, C.Pagani, T.S.Poole, P.W.A.Roming, P.J.Smith, D.E.Vanden Berk
Comments: Submitted to MNRAS, 11 pages, 3 figures

GRB061007 is the brightest gamma-ray burst (GRB) to be detected by Swift and is accompanied by an exceptionally luminous afterglow that had a V-band magnitude <11.1 alpha_x="1.66+/-0.01" theta_j="0.8deg.">

Prochask 2006 Swift暴的宿主星系的ISM

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astro-ph/0611092 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: The Interstellar Medium of GRB Host Galaxies I. Echelle Spectra of Swift GRB Af terglows
Authors: J.X. Prochaska (1), H.-W. Chen (2), J. S. Bloom (3), M. Dessauges-Zavadsky (4), J. M. O'Meara (5), R. J. Foley (3), R. Bernstein (6), S. Burles (7), A. K. Dupree (8), E. Falco (8), I. B. Thompson (9) ((1) UCO/Lick, (2) U Chicago, (3) UC Berkeley, (4) Geneva Observatory, (5) Penn State-Worthington, (6) U Michigan, (7) MIT, (8) Harvard CfA, (9) Carnegie Observatories)
Comments: 52 pages, 18 figures. Accepted to ApJS. The spectra will be published with the paper and is also available upon request. A complete version with full-resolution figures is available at this http URL

We present optical echelle spectra of four gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglows (GRB 050730, GRB 050820, GRB 051111, and GRB 060418) discovered during the first 1.5 years of operation of the Swift satellite and localized by either the Swift telescope or follow-up ground-based imaging. We analyze the spectra to derive accurate column density measurements for the transitions arising in the interstellar medium (ISM) of the GRB host galaxies. These measurements can be used to constrain the physical properties of the ISM including the metallicity, dust-to-gas ratio, ionization state, and chemical abundances of the gas. We also present measurements of the strong MgII systems in the GRB afterglow spectra. With the publication of this paper, we provide the first data release of echelle afterglow spectra by the GRAASP collaboration to the general community.

Nuza2006 长暴宿主星系在等级理论中的模拟

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astro-ph/0611122 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: The host galaxies of long-duration GRBs in a cosmological hierarchical scenario
Authors: Sebastian E. Nuza, Patricia B. Tissera, Leonardo J. Pellizza, Diego G. Lambas, Cecilia Scannapieco, Maria E. De Rossi
Comments: 9 pages, 9 figures, submitted to MNRAS

We developed a Monte Carlo code to generate long-duration gamma ray burst (LGRB) events within cosmological hydrodynam ical simulations consistent with the concordance $\Lambda$CDM model. As structure is assembled, LGRBs are generated in the substructure that formed galaxies today. We adopted the collapsar model so that LGRBs are produced by single, mas sive stars at the final stage of their evolution. We found that the observed properties of the LGRB host galaxies (HGs) are reproduced if LGRBs are also required to be generated by low metallicity stars. The low metallicity condition imposed on the progenitor stars of LGRBs selects a sample of HGs with mean gas abundances of 12 + log O/H $\approx 8.6$. For $z<1$>

Berger2006 几个高红移短暴的观测

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astro-ph/0611128 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: A New Population of High Redshift Short-Duration Gamma-Ray Bursts
Authors: E. Berger, D.B. Fox, P.A. Price, E. Nakar, A. Gal-Yam, D.E. Holz, B.P. Schmidt, A. Cucchiara, S.B. Cenko, S.R. Kulkarni, A.M. Soderberg, D.A. Frail, B.E. Penprase, A. Rau, E. Ofek, S.J. Bell Burnell, P.B. Cameron, L.L. Cowie, M.A. Dopita, I. Hook, B.A. Peterson, Ph. Podsiadlowski, K.C. Roth, R.E. Rutledge, S.S. Sheppard, A. Songaila
Comments: Submitted to ApJ; 6 figures, 1 table; comments are welcome

The redshift distribution of the short-duration GRBs is a crucial, but currently fragmentary, clue to the nature of their progenitors. Here we present optical observations of seven short GRBs obtained with Gemini, Magellan, and HST. We detect the afterglows and host galaxies of two short bursts, and host galaxies for two additional bursts with known optical afterglow positions, and three with X-ray positions (<4.5" r="23-26.5" r="17-22" z="1.1304">0.7 (97% confidence level), suggesting that 1/4-2/3 of all short GRBs originate at higher redshifts than previously determined. This has two important implications: (i) We constrain the acceptable age distributions to a wide lognormal (sigma~1) with tau~4-8 Gyr, or to a power law, P(tau)~tau^n, with -1<0;>

Sato2006 Swift的X射线余辉没有喷流拐折 3

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astro-ph/0611148 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Swift Discovery of Gamma-Ray Bursts without Jet Break Feature in their X-Ray Afterglows
Authors: G. Sato, R. Yamazaki, K. Ioka, T. Sakamoto, T. Takahashi, K. Nakazawa, T. Nakamura, K. Toma, D. Hullinger, M. Tashiro, A. M. Parsons, H. A. Krimm, S. D. Barthelmy, N. Gehrels, D. N. Burrows, P. T. O'Brien, J. P. Osborne, G. Chincarini, D. Q. Lamb
Comments: 24 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

We analyze Swift gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and X-ray afterglows for three GRBs with spectroscopic redshift determinations -- GRB 050401, XRF 050416a, and GRB 050525a. We find that the relation between spectral peak energy and isotropic energy of prompt emissions (the Amati relation) is consistent with that for the bursts observed in pre-Swift era. However, we find that the X-ray afterglow lightcurves, which extend up to 10-70 days, show no sign of the jet break that is expected in the standard framework of collimated outflows. We do so by showing that none of the X-ray afterglow lightcurves in our sample satisfies the relation between the spectral and temporal indices that is predicted for the phase after jet break. The jet break time can be predicted by inverting the tight empirical relation between the peak energy of the spectrum and the collimation-corrected energy of the prompt emission (the Ghirlanda relation). We find that there are no temporal breaks within the predicted time intervals in X-ray band. This requires either that the Ghirlanda relation has a larger scatter than previously thought, that the temporal break in X-rays is masked by some additional source of X-ray emission, or that it does not happen because of some unknown reason.

Su2006 伽玛暴与其他方法共同限制宇宙学参数

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astro-ph/0611155 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Gamma Ray Bursts: Complementarity to Other Cosmological Probes
Authors: Meng Su (1), Zuhui Fan (1), Bo Liu (2) ((1) Peking University, (2) Tsinghua University)
Comments: 14 pages, 4 figures, submitted to ApJL

We combine recent long Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) sample including 52 objects out to z$=$6.3 compiled from Swift Gamma Ray Bursts by Schaefer (2006) with Type Ia Supernova (SNIa), Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and Baryon Oscillation (BAO) to constrain cosmologies. We study the constraints arising from GRBs alone and the complementarity of GRBs to other cosmological probes. To analyze the cosmological role of GRBs, we adopt the Hubble constant as a free parameter with a prior in the range of $H_0=72\pm8\enspace\kmsmpc$ instead of a fixed $H_0$ used in previous studies. By jointly using SNIa gold/SNLS samples and GRBs, the constraints on \Om -\Ol parameter space are dramatically improved in comparing with those from SNIa data alone. The complementarity of GRBs is mostly from the sub-sample with z$>$1.5 due to the different parameter degeneracies involved in luminosity distances at different redshifts. Including GRB data in addition to SNIa, BAO and CMB in our analysis, we find that the concordance model with \Om $\sim$0.3 and \Ol$\sim$0.7 is still well within 1$\sigma$ confidence range.

Dado2006 讨论GRB060614作为一类新的暴的可能性

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astro-ph/0611161 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Long gamma-ray bursts without visible supernovae: a case study of redshift estimators and alleged novel objects
Authors: Shlomo Dado, Arnon Dar, A. De Rujula
Comments: 13 pages, 2 figures

There is an ongoing debate on whether or not the observational limits on a supernova (SN) associated with GRB060614 convincingly exclude a SN akin to SN1998bw as its originator, and provide evidence for a new class of long-duration GRBs. We discuss this issue in the contexts of indirect `redshift estimators' and of the fireball and cannonball models of GRBs. The latter explains the unusual properties of GRB060614: at its debated low redshift (0.125) they are predicted, as opposed to exceptional, if the associated SN is of `Pastorello's class'. Long-baseline radio data and deep optical data may test the proposed alternatives.

Amati2006 Swift暴的E_p-E_iso关系

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astro-ph/0611189 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :
Title: Swift GRBs and the Ep,i - Eiso correlation
Authors: L. Amati
Comments: 6 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Il Nuovo Cimento C (proceedings of "SWIFT and GRBs: Unveiling the Relativistic Universe", June 5-9, 2006 Venice (Italy)

The Ep,i - Eiso correlation is one of the most intriguing and debated observational evidences in Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRB) astrophysics. Swift, with its high sensitivity and fast pointing capabilities, is reducing a lot the impact of selection effects in the sample of GRBs with known redshift (and thus Ep,i and Eiso). Moreover, in several cases it allows the detection of the soft tail of the prompt emission, and thus a more accurate estimate of Ep,i with respect to previous satellites. I present and discuss the location in the Ep,i - Eiso plane of Swift GRBs with known redshift and estimated Ep,i, showing that all long events (including peculiar events like GRB060218 and GRB060614) are consistent with the Ep,i - Eiso correlation. In contrast, short GRBs are not consistent with it, an evidence further supporting the hypothesis of different emission mechanisms at work in the two classes of GRBs. I also show, and briefly discuss, the intriguing evidence that the soft tail of the short GRB050724 is consistent with the correlation.