An Optically Dark GRB Observed by HETE-2: GRB 051022
Abstract
GRB 051022 was detected at 13:07:58 on 22 October 2005 by HETE-2. The location of GRB 051022 was determined immediately by the flight localization system. This burst contains multiple pulses and has a rather long duration of about 190 seconds. The detections of candidate X-ray and radio afterglows were reported, whereas no optical afterglow was found. The optical spectroscopic observations of the host galaxy revealed the redshift z = 0.8. Using the data derived by HETE-2 observation of the prompt emission, we found the absorption N_H = 8.8 -2.9/+3.1 x 10^22 cm^-2 and the visual extinction A_V = 49 -16/+17 mag in the host galaxy. If this is the case, no detection of any optical transient would be quite reasonable. The absorption derived by the Swift XRT observations of the afterglow is fully consistent with those obtained from the early HETE-2 observation of the prompt emission. Our analysis implies an interpretation that the absorbing medium could be outside external shock at R ~ 10^16 cm, which may be a dusty molecular cloud.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0605407,
title = {An Optically Dark GRB Observed by HETE-2: GRB 051022},
author = {Yujin E. Nakagawa and Atsumasa Yoshida and Satoshi Sugita and Kaoru Tanaka and Nobuyuki Ishikawa and Toru Tamagawa and Motoko Suzuki and Yuji Shirasaki and Nobuyuki Kawai and Masaru Matsuoka and Jean-Luc Atteia and Alexandre Pelangeon and Roland Vanderspek and Geoff B. Crew and Joel S. Villasenor and Nat Butler and John Doty and George R. Ricker and Graziella Pizzichini and Timothy Q. Donaghy and Donald Q. Lamb and Carlo Graziani and Rie Sato and Miki Maetou and Makoto Arimoto and Jun'ichi Kotoku and J. Garret Jernigan and Takanori Sakamoto and Jean-Francois Olive and Michel Boer and Edward E. Fenimore and Mark Galassi and Stanford E. Woosley and Makoto Yamauchi and Kunio Takagishi and Isamu Hatsukade},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0605407},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
6 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in PASJ letter