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Discovery of the Very Red Near-Infrared and Optical Afterglow of the Short-Duration GRB 070724A

[Abridged] We report the discovery of the near-infrared and optical afterglow of the short-duration gamma-ray burst GRB070724A. The afterglow is detected in i,J,H,K observations starting 2.3 hr after the burst with K=19.59+/-0.16 mag and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 E. Berger , S. B. Cenko , D. B. Fox , A. Cucchiara

The GRB/SN Connection: An Improved Spectral Flux Distribution for the SN-Like Component to the Afterglow of GRB 970228, the Non-Detection of a SN-Like Component to the Afterglow of GRB 990510, and GRBs as Beacons to Locate SNe at Redshifts z = 4 - 5

We better determine the spectral flux distribution of the supernova candidate associated with GRB 970228 by modeling the spectral flux distribution of the host galaxy of this burst, fitting this model to measurements of the host galaxy, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Daniel E. Reichart , Donald Q. Lamb , Francisco J. Castander

A Trio of GRB-SNe: GRB 120729A, GRB 130215A / SN 2013ez and GRB 130831A / SN 2013fu

We present optical and near-infrared (NIR) photometry for three gamma-ray burst supernovae (GRB-SNe): GRB 120729A, GRB 130215A / SN 2013ez and GRB 130831A / SN 2013fu. In the case of GRB 130215A / SN 2013ez, we also present optical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-09-05 Z. Cano , A. de Ugarte Postigo , A. Pozanenko , N. Butler , C. C. Thone , C. Guidorzi , T. Kruhler , J. Gorosabel , P. Jakobsson , G. Leloudas , D. Malesani , J. Hjorth , A. Melandri , C. Mundell , K. Wiersema , P. D'Avanzo , S. Schulze , A. Gomboc , A. Johansson , W. Zheng , D. A. Kann , F. Knust , K. Varela , C. W. Akerlof , J. Bloom , O. Burkhonov , E. Cooke , J. A. de Diego , G. Dhungana , C. Farina , F. V. Ferrante , H. A. Flewelling , O. D. Fox , J. Fynbo , N. Gehrels , L. Georgiev , J. J. Gonzalez , J. Greiner , T. Guver , O. Hartoog , N. Hatch , M Jelinek , R. Kehoe , S. Klose , E. Klunko , D. Kopac , A. Kutyrev , Y. Krugl , W. H. Lee , A. Levan , V. Linkov , A. Matkin , N. Minikulov , I. Molotov , J. Xavier Prochaska , M. G. Richer , C. G. Roman-Zuniga , V. Rumyantsev , R. Sanchez-Ramirez , I. Steele , N. R. Tanvir , A. Volnova , A. M. Watson , D. Xu , F. Yuan

The Spectral Lag of GRB060505: A Likely Member of the Long Duration Class

Two long gamma-ray bursts, GRB 060505 and GRB 060614, occurred in nearby galaxies at redshifts of 0.089 and 0.125 respectively. Due to their proximity and durations, deep follow-up campaigns to search for supernovae (SNe) were initiated.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-04-15 S. McBreen , S. Foley , D. Watson , L. Hanlon , D. Malesani , J. P. U. Fynbo , D. A. Kann , N. Gehrels , S. McGlynn , D. Palmer

The J-band Light Curve of SN 2003lw, Associated with GRB 031203

At z=0.1055, the gamma-ray burst GRB 031203 is one of the two nearest GRBs known. Using observations from the Very Large Array (VLA) and Chandra X-ray Observatory, we derive sub-arcsecond localizations of the radio and X-ray afterglow of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-12 A. Gal-Yam , D. -S. Moon , D. B. Fox , A. M. Soderberg , S. R. Kulkarni , E. Berger , S. B. Cenko , S. Yost , D. A. Frail , M. Sako , W. L. Freedman , S. E. Persson , P. Wyatt , D. C. Murphy , M. M. Phillips , N. B. Suntzeff , P. A. Mazzali , K. Nomoto

The line-of-sight towards GRB 030429 at z = 2.66: Probing the matter at stellar, galactic and intergalactic scales

We report the discovery of the optical afterglow (OA) of the long-duration gamma-ray burst GRB 030429, and present a comprehensive optical/near-infrared dataset used to probe the matter at different distance scales, i.e. in the burst…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Jakobsson , J. Hjorth , J. P. U. Fynbo , M. Weidinger , J. Gorosabel , C. Ledoux , D. Watson , G. Bjornsson , E. H. Gudmundsson , R. A. M. J. Wijers , P. Moller , K. Pedersen , J. Sollerman , A. A. Henden , B. L. Jensen , A. Gilmore , P. Kilmartin , A. Levan , J. M. Castro Cerón , A. J. Castro-Tirado , A. Fruchter , C. Kouveliotou , N. Masetti , N. Tanvir

GRB 080503: Implications of a Naked Short Gamma-Ray Burst Dominated by Extended Emission

We report on observations of GRB 080503, a short gamma-ray burst with very bright extended emission (about 30 times the gamma-ray fluence of the initial spike) in conjunction with a thorough comparison to other short Swift events. In spite…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 D. A. Perley , B. D. Metzger , J. Granot , N. R. Butler , T. Sakamoto , E. Ramirez-Ruiz , A. J. Levan , J. S. Bloom , A. A. Miller , A. Bunker , H. -W. Chen , A. V. Filippenko , N. Gehrels , K. Glazebrook , P. B. Hall , K. C. Hurley , D. Kocevski , W. Li , S. Lopez , J. Norris , A. L. Piro , D. Poznanski , J. X. Prochaska , E. Quataert , N. Tanvir

GRB 050509b: the elusive optical/nIR/mm afterglow of a short-duration GRB

We present multiwavelength (optical/near infrared/millimetre) observations of a short duration gamma-ray burst detected by Swift (GRB 050509b) collected between 0 seconds and ~18.8 days after the event. No optical, near infrared or…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. J. Castro-Tirado , A. de Ugarte Postigo , J. Gorosabel , T. Fatkhullin , V. Sokolov , M. Bremer , I. Márquez , A. J. Marin , S. Guziy , M. Jelinek , P. Kubanek , R. Hudec , S. Vitek , T. J. Mateo Sanguino , A. Eigenbrod , M. D. Pérez-Ramírez , A. Sota , J. Masegosa , F. Prada , M. Moles

The Remarkable Afterglow of GRB 061007: Implications for Optical Flashes and GRB Fireballs

We present a multiwavelength analysis of Swift GRB 061007. The 2-m robotic Faulkes Telescope South (FTS) began observing 137 s after the onset of the gamma-ray emission, when the optical counterpart was already decaying from R 10.3 mag, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 C. G. Mundell , A. Melandri , C. Guidorzi , S. Kobayashi , I. A. Steele , D. Malesani , L. Amati , P. D'Avanzo , D. F. Bersier , A. Gomboc , E. Rol , M. F. Bode , D. Carter , C. J. Mottram , A. Monfardini , R. J. Smith , S. Malhotra , J. Wang , N. Bannister , P. T. O'Brien , N. R. Tanvir

The optical light curve of GRB 221009A: the afterglow and the emerging supernova

We present extensive optical photometry of the afterglow of GRB~221009A. Our data cover $0.9 - 59.9$\,days from the time of \textit{Swift} and \textit{Fermi} GRB detections. Photometry in $rizy$-band filters was collected primarily with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-05 M. D. Fulton , S. J. Smartt , L. Rhodes , M. E. Huber , A. V. Villar , T. Moore , S. Srivastav , A. S. B. Schultz , K. C. Chambers , L. Izzo , J. Hjorth , T. -W. Chen , M. Nicholl , R. J. Foley , A. Rest , K. W. Smith , D. R. Young , S. A. Sim , J. Bright , Y. Zenati , T. de Boer , J. Bulger , J. Fairlamb , H. Gao , C. -C. Lin , T. Lowe , E. A. Magnier , I. A. Smith , R. Wainscoat , D. A. Coulter , D. O. Jones , C. D. Kilpatrick , P. McGill , E. Ramirez-Ruiz , K. -S. Lee , G. Narayan , V. Ramakrishnan , R. Ridden-Harper , A. Singh , Q. Wang , A. K. H. Kong , C. -C. Ngeow , Y. -C. Pan , S. Yang , K. W. Davis , A. L. Piro , C. Rojas-Bravo , J. Sommer , S. K. Yadavalli

Discovery of the broad-lined Type Ic SN 2013cq associated with the very energetic GRB 130427A

Long-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) at z < 1 are in most cases found to be accompanied by bright, broad-lined Type Ic supernovae (SNe Ic-BL). The highest-energy GRBs are mostly located at higher redshifts, where the associated SNe are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-10-07 D. Xu , A. de Ugarte Postigo , G. Leloudas , T. Kruhler , Z. Cano , J. Hjorth , D. Malesani , J. P. U. Fynbo , C. C. Thoene , R. Sanchez-Ramirez , S. Schulze , P. Jakobsson , L. Kaper , J. Sollerman , D. J. Watson , A. Cabrera-Lavers , C. Cao , S. Covino , H. Flores , S. Geier , J. Gorosabel , S. M. Hu , B. Milvang-Jensen , M. Sparre , L. P. Xin , T. M. Zhang , W. K. Zheng , Y. C. Zou

Late time observations of GRB080319B: jet break, host galaxy and accompanying supernova

The Swift discovered GRB080319B was by far the most distant source ever observed at naked eye brightness, reaching a peak apparent magnitude of 5.3 at a redshift of z=0.937. We present our late-time optical (HST, Gemini & VLT) and X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-07 Nial R. Tanvir , Evert Rol , Andrew Levan , Andrew Fruchter , Jonathan Granot , Karl M. Svensson , Paul T. O'Brien , Klaas Wiersema , Rhaana L. C. Starling , Pall Jakobsson , Johan Fynbo , Jens Hjorth , Peter Curran , Alexander J. van der Horst , Chryssa Kouveliotou , Judith L. Racusin , David N. Burrows , Frank Genet

Diversity of GRB energetics vs. SN homogeneity: supernova 2013cq associated with the gamma-ray burst 130427A

Long-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have been found to be associated with broad-lined type-Ic supernovae (SNe), but only a handful of cases have been studied in detail. Prompted by the discovery of the exceptionally bright, nearby…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-09-05 A. Melandri , E. Pian , V. D'Elia , P. D'Avanzo , M. Della Valle , P. A. Mazzali , G. Tagliaferri , Z. Cano , A. J. Levan , P. Møller , L. Amati , M. G. Bernardini , D. Bersier , F. Bufano , S. Campana , A. J. Castro-Tirado , S. Covino , G. Ghirlanda , K. Hurley , D. Malesani , N. Masetti , E. Palazzi , S. Piranomonte , A. Rossi , R. Salvaterra , R. L. C. Starling , M. Tanaka , N. R. Tanvir , S. D. Vergani

The Early Light Curve of the Optical Afterglow of GRB 021211

The Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope (KAIT) at Lick Observatory observed GRB 021211 starting 105 s after the burst, among the earliest observations of an optical afterglow to date. Our well-sampled light curve, consisting of 18 points in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Weidong Li , Alexei V. Filippenko , Ryan Chornock , Saurabh Jha

Short GRB 160821B: a reverse shock, a refreshed shock, and a well-sampled kilonova

We report our identification of the optical afterglow and host galaxy of the short-duration gamma-ray burst GRB 160821B. The spectroscopic redshift of the host is $z=0.162$, making it one of the lowest redshift sGRBs identified by Swift.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-25 G. P. Lamb , N. R. Tanvir , A. J. Levan , A. de Ugarte Postigo , K. Kawaguchi , A. Corsi , P. A. Evans , B. Gompertz , D. B. Malesani , K. L. Page , K. Wiersema , S. Rosswog , M. Shibata , M. Tanaka , A. J. van der Horst , Z. Cano , J. P. U. Fynbo , A. S. Fruchter , J. Greiner , K. Heintz , A. Higgins , J. Hjorth , L. Izzo , P. Jakobsson , D. A. Kann , P. T. O'Brien , D. A. Perley , E. Pian , G. Pugliese , R. L. C. Starling , C. C. Thöne , D. Watson , R. A. M. J. Wijers , D. Xu

Supernovae Shedding Light on Gamma-Ray Bursts

We review the observational status of the Supernova (SN)/Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) connection. In section 2 we provide a short summary of the observational properties of core-collapse SNe. In sections 3-6 we review the circumstantial evidences…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 M. Della Valle

Probing a GRB progenitor at a redshift of z=2: a comprehensive observing campaign of the afterglow of GRB 030226

We report results from a comprehensive follow-up observing campaign of the afterglow of GRB 030226, including VLT spectroscopy, VLT polarimetry, and Chandra X-ray observations. In addition, we present BOOTES-1 wide-field observations at the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-16 S. Klose , J. Greiner , A. Rau , A. A. Henden , D. H. Hartmann , A. Zeh , C. Ries , N. Masetti , D. Malesani , E. Guenther , J. Gorosabel , B. Stecklum , L. A. Antonelli , C. Brinkworth , J. M. Castro Cerón , A. J. Castro-Tirado , S. Covino , A. Fruchter , J. P. Fynbo , G. Ghisellini , J. Hjorth , R. Hudec , M. Jelínek , L. Kaper , C. Kouveliotou , K. Lindsay , E. Maiorano , F. Mannucci , M. Nysewander , E. Palazzi , K. Pedersen , E. Pian , D. Reichart , J. Rhoads , E. Rol , I. Smail , N. R. Tanvir , A. de Ugarte Postigo , P. M. Vreeswijk , R. A. M. J. Wijers , E. P. J. van den Heuvel

Models for the Type Ic Hypernova SN 2003lw associated with GRB 031203

The Gamma-Ray Burst 031203 at a redshift z=0.1055 revealed a highly reddened Type Ic Supernova, SN 2003lw, in its afterglow light. This is the third well established case of a link between a long-duration GRB and a type Ic SN. The SN light…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Paolo A. Mazzali , Jinsong Deng , Elena Pian , Daniele Malesani , Nozomu Tominaga , Keiichi Maeda , Ken'ichi Nomoto , Guido Chincarini , Stefano Covino , Massimo Della Valle , Dino Fugazza , Gianpiero Tagliaferri , Avishay Gal-Yam

A strong optical flare before the rising afterglow of GRB 080129

We report on GROND observations of a 40 sec duration (rest-frame) optical flare from GRB 080129 at redshift 4.349. The rise- and decay time follow a power law with indices +12 and -8, respectively, inconsistent with a reverse shock and a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 J. Greiner , T. Krühler , S. McBreen , M. Ajello , D. Giannos , R. Schwarz , S. Savaglio , A. Küpcü Yoldas , C. Clemens , A. Stefanescu , G. Sala , F. Bertoldi , G. Szokoly , S. Klose

High Energy Observations of XRF 030723: Evidence for an Off-axis Gamma-Ray Burst?

We report High Energy Transient Explorer 2 (HETE-2) Wide Field X-ray Monitor/French Gamma Telescope observations of XRF030723 along with observations of the XRF afterglow made using the 6.5m Magellan Clay telescope and the Chandra X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 N. R. Butler , T. Sakamoto , M. Suzuki , N. Kawai , D. Q. Lamb , C. Graziani , T. Q. Donaghy , A. Dullighan , R. Vanderspek , G. B. Crew , P. Ford , G. Ricker , J-L. Atteia , A. Yoshida , Y. Shirasaki , T. Tamagawa , K. Torii , M. Matsuoka , E. E. Fenimore , M. Galassi , J. Doty , J. Villasenor , G. Prigozhin , J. G. Jernigan , C. Barraud , M. Boer , J-P. Dezalay , J-F. Olive , K. Hurley , A. Levine , F. Martel , E. Morgan , S. E. Woosley , T. Cline , J. Braga , R. Manchanda , G. Pizzichini