Can optical afterglows be used to discriminate between Type I and Type II GRBs?
Astrophysics
2009-11-13 v1
Abstract
The precise localization of short/hard (Type I) gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) in recent years has answered many questions but raised even more. I present some results of a systematic study of the optical afterglows of long/soft (Type II) and short/hard (Type I) GRBs, focusing on the optical luminosity as another puzzle piece in the classification of GRBs.
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@article{arxiv.0808.3221,
title = {Can optical afterglows be used to discriminate between Type I and Type II GRBs?},
author = {D. A. Kann},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0808.3221},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
7 Pages, 2 figures, to be published in the "2008 Nanjing GRB Conference" conference proceedings, figures have been downsampled