On the Origin of the Dark Gamma-Ray Bursts
Astrophysics
2010-11-11 v1
Abstract
The origin of dark bursts - i.e. that have no observed afterglows in X-ray, optical/NIR and radio ranges - is unclear yet. Different possibilities - instrumental biases, very high redshifts, extinction in the host galaxies - are discussed and shown to be important. On the other hand, the dark bursts should not form a new subgroup of long gamma-ray bursts themselves.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0701905,
title = {On the Origin of the Dark Gamma-Ray Bursts},
author = {A. Meszaros and Z. Bagoly and S. Klose and F. Ryde and S. Larsson and L. G. Balazs and I. Horvath and L. Borgonovo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0701905},
year = {2010}
}
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published in Nuovo Cimento