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Multi-Wavelength Observations of Short-Duration Gamma-Ray Bursts: Recent Results

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2015-06-12 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Abstract

The number of detections as well as significantly deep non-detections of optical/NIR afterglows of Type I (short-duration population) Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) has become large enough that statistically meaningful samples can now be constructed. I present within some recent results on the luminosity distribution of Type I GRB afterglows in comparison to those of Type II GRBs (collapsar population), the issue of the existence of jet breaks in Type I GRB afterglows, and the discovery of dark Type I GRBs.

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@article{arxiv.1212.0040,
  title  = {Multi-Wavelength Observations of Short-Duration Gamma-Ray Bursts: Recent Results},
  author = {David Alexander Kann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1212.0040},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

10 pages, 3 figures, based on an invited talk, to appear in the proceedings of the Gamma-Ray Burst Symposium 2012- IAA-CSIC - Marbella, editors: Castro-Tirado, A. J., Gorosabel, J. and Park, I. H; v2: accepted, slightly expanded, minor changes after referee report