TOUGH: Observational aspects of gamma-ray burst host galaxies
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
2012-08-31 v1 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract
GRB-selected galaxies are broadly known to be faint, blue, young, star-forming dwarf galaxies. This insight, however, is based in part on heterogeneous samples of optically selected, lower-redshift galaxies. To study the statistical properties of GRB-selected galaxies we here introduce The Optically Unbiased GRB Host (TOUGH) complete sample of 69 X-ray selected Swift GRB host galaxies spanning the redshift range 0.03-6.30 and summarise the first results of a large observational survey of these galaxies.
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@article{arxiv.1208.6288,
title = {TOUGH: Observational aspects of gamma-ray burst host galaxies},
author = {Jens Hjorth and Daniele Malesani and Andreas O. Jaunsen and Andrew J. Levan and Bo Milvang-Jensen and Darach Watson and Javier Gorosabel and Johan P. U. Fynbo and Michał J. Michałowski and Nial R. Tanvir and Páll Jakobsson and Palle Møller and Steve Schulze and Thomas Krühler},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1208.6288},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
8 pages, 5 figures, "Gamma-Ray Bursts 2012", Munich, May 7-11, 2012, eds. A. Rau and J. Greiner