Bibcode
Castro-Tirado, A. J.; McBreen, S.; Jelínek, M.; Pandey, S. B.; Bremer, M.; de Ugarte Postigo, A.; Gorosabel, J.; Guziy, S.; Bihain, G.; Caballero, J. A.; Ferrero, P.; de Jong, J.; Misra, K.; Sahu, D. K.
Referencia bibliográfica
GAMMA-RAY BURSTS IN THE SWIFT ERA: Sixteenth Maryland Astrophysics Conference. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 836, pp. 79-84 (2006).
Fecha de publicación:
5
2006
Número de citas
2
Número de citas referidas
2
Descripción
We present multiwavelength observations of the latest two GRB detected
by Hete-2 in 2005. For GRB 051022, no optical/nIR afterglow has been
detected, in spite of the strong gamma-ray emission and the reported
X-ray afterglow discovered by Swift. A mm afterglow was discovered at
PdB confirming the association of this event with a luminous (MV = -
21.5) galaxy within the X-ray error box. Spectroscopy of this galaxy
shows strong a strong [O II] emission line at z = 0.807, besides weaker
[O III] emission. The X-ray spectrum showed evidence of considerable
absorption by neutral gas with NH,X-ray = 4.5 × 1022
cm2 (at rest frame). ISM absorption by dust in the host
galaxy at z = 0.807 cannot certainly account for the non-detection of
the optical afterglow, unless the dust-to-gas ratio is quite different
than that seen in our Galaxy. It is possible then that GRB 051022 was
produced in an obscured, stellar forming region in its parent host
galaxy.
For GRB 051028, the data can be interpreted by collimated emission (a
jet model with p = 2.4) moving in an homogeneous ISM and with a cooling
frequency vc still above the X-rays at 0.5 days after the burst onset.
GRB 051028 can be classified as a ``gray'' or ``potentially dark'' GRB.
The Swift/XRT data are consistent with the interpretation that the
reason for the optical dimness is not extra absorption in the host
galaxy, but rather the GRB taking place at high-redshift.