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GRBs with no afterglow even in the Swift Era?

Authors :
Vetere, L.
Burrows, D. N.
Gehrels, N.
Meszaros, P.
Wang, X.
Source :
AIP Conference Proceedings. 5/3/2009, Vol. 1111 Issue 1, p370-373. 4p. 1 Chart, 3 Graphs.
Publication Year :
2009

Abstract

Thanks to its great capability Swift succeeds detecting an afterglow more than 93% of the time BAT triggers a new event. In a few cases, mainly Short GRBs or late observations, XRT did not detect any emission. However, for at least seven Long GRBs XRT could not measure any X-afterglow either, even as early as 100 s after the BAT trigger. The detection of this new class of GRBs without any X-ray emission has raised many questions. Are these extreme naked GRB? Is this a completely new class of objects with an uncommon emission release? In this contribution we present a study on these unusual events. We analyse their peculiar behaviour in the Gamma and X-ray bands and discuss their singular origin. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
0094243X
Volume :
1111
Issue :
1
Database :
Academic Search Index
Journal :
AIP Conference Proceedings
Publication Type :
Conference
Accession number :
39054678
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3141575