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1. Revealing characteristics of dark GRB 150309A: dust extinguished or high-z?

Author: Castro-Tirado, A. J., Gupta, Rahul, Pandey, S. B., Guelbenzu, A. Nicuesa, Eikenberry, S., Ackley, K., Gerarts, A., Valeev, A. F., Jeong, S., Park, I. H., Oates, S. R., Zhang, B. -B., Sánchez-Ramírez, R., Martín-Carrillo, A., Tello, J. C., Jelínek, M., Hu, Y. -D., Cunniffe, R., Sokolov, V. V., Guziy, S., Ferrero, P., Caballero-García, M. D., Ror, A. K., Aryan, A., Tirado, M. A. Castro, Fernández-García, E., Gritsevich, M., Olivares, I., Pérez-García, I., Cerón, J. M. Castro, and Cepa, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: Dark GRBs constitute a significant fraction of the GRB population. In this paper, we present the multiwavelength analysis of an intense two-episodic GRB 150309A observed early on to ~114 days post-burst. Despite the strong gamma-ray emission, no optical afterglow was detected for this burst. However, we discovered near-infrared afterglow ($K_{\rm S}$-band), ~5.2 hours post burst, with the CIRCE instrument mounted at the 10.4m GTC. We used Fermi observations of GRB 150309A to understand the prompt emission mechanisms and jet composition. We performed the early optical observations using the BOOTES robotic telescope and late-time afterglow observations using the GTC. A potential faint host galaxy is also detected at optical wavelength using the GTC. We modelled the potential host galaxy of GRB 150309A in order to explore the environment of the burst. The time-resolved spectral analysis of Fermi data indicates a hybrid jet composition consisting of a matter-dominated fireball and magnetic-dominated Poynting flux. GTC observations of the afterglow revealed that the counterpart of GRB 150309A was very red, with H-$K_{\rm S}$ > 2.1 mag (95 $\%$ confidence). The red counterpart was not discovered in any bluer filters of Swift UVOT, indicative of high redshift origin. This possibility was discarded based on multiple arguments, such as spectral analysis of X-ray afterglow constrain z < 4.15 and a moderate redshift value obtained using spectral energy distribution modelling of the potential galaxy. The broadband afterglow SED implies a very dusty host galaxy with deeply embedded GRB (suggesting $A_{\rm V}$ $\gtrsim$ 35 mag). The environment of GRB 150309A demands a high extinction towards the line of sight, demanding dust obscuration is the most probable origin of optical darkness and the very red afterglow of GRB 150309A. This result makes GRB 150309A the highest extinguished GRB known to date., Comment: 14 pages, 10 figures, 3 tables, accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics (A&A)
Published: 2023

2. Panning for gold, but finding helium: discovery of the ultra-stripped supernova SN2019wxt from gravitational-wave follow-up observations

Author: Agudo, I., Amati, L., An, T., Bauer, F. E., Benetti, S., Bernardini, M. G., Beswick, R., Bhirombhakdi, K., de Boer, T., Branchesi, M., Brennan, S. J., Caballero-García, M. D., Cappellaro, E., Rodríguez, N. Castro, Castro-Tirado, A. J., Chambers, K. C., Chassande-Mottin, E., Chaty, S., Chen, T. -W., Coleiro, A., Covino, S., D'Ammando, F., D'Avanzo, P., D'Elia, V., Fiore, A., Flörs, A., Fraser, M., Frey, S., Frohmaier, C., Galbany, L., Gall, C., Gao, H., García-Rojas, J., Ghirlanda, G., Giarratana, S., Gillanders, J. H., Giroletti, M., Gompertz, B. P., Gromadzki, M., Heintz, K. E., Hu, Y. -D., Huber, M. E., Inkenhaag, A., Izzo, L., Jin, Z. P., Jonker, P. G., Kann, D. A., Kool, E. C., Kotak, R., Leloudas, G., Levan, A. J., Lin, C. -C., Lyman, J. D., Magnier, E. A., Maguire, K., Mandel, I., Marcote, B., Sánchez, D. Mata, Mattila, S., Melandri, A., Michałowski, M. J., Moldon, J., Nicholl, M., Guelbenzu, A. Nicuesa, Oates, S. R., Onori, F., Orienti, M., Paladino, R., Paragi, Z., Perez-Torres, M., Pian, E., Pignata, G., Piranomonte, S., Quirola-Vásquez, J., Ragosta, F., Rau, A., Ronchini, S., Rossi, A., Sánchez-Ramírez, R., Salafia, O. S., Schulze, S., Smartt, S. J., Smith, K. W., Sollerman, J., Srivastav, S., Starling, R. L. C., Steeghs, D., Stevance, H. F., Testa, V., Torres, M. A. P., Vergani, S. D., Vescovi, D., Wainscost, R., Watson, D., Wiersema, K., Wyrzykowski, Ł., Yang, J., Yang, S., and Young, D. R.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Abstract: We present the results from multi-wavelength observations of a transient discovered during the follow-up of S191213g, a gravitational wave (GW) event reported by the LIGO-Virgo Collaboration as a possible binary neutron star merger in a low latency search. This search yielded SN2019wxt, a young transient in a galaxy whose sky position (in the 80\% GW contour) and distance ($\sim$150\,Mpc) were plausibly compatible with the localisation uncertainty of the GW event. Initially, the transient's tightly constrained age, its relatively faint peak magnitude ($M_i \sim -16.7$\,mag) and the $r-$band decline rate of $\sim 1$\,mag per 5\,days appeared suggestive of a compact binary merger. However, SN2019wxt spectroscopically resembled a type Ib supernova, and analysis of the optical-near-infrared evolution rapidly led to the conclusion that while it could not be associated with S191213g, it nevertheless represented an extreme outcome of stellar evolution. By modelling the light curve, we estimated an ejecta mass of $\sim 0.1\,M_\odot$, with $^{56}$Ni comprising $\sim 20\%$ of this. We were broadly able to reproduce its spectral evolution with a composition dominated by helium and oxygen, with trace amounts of calcium. We considered various progenitors that could give rise to the observed properties of SN2019wxt, and concluded that an ultra-stripped origin in a binary system is the most likely explanation. Disentangling electromagnetic counterparts to GW events from transients such as SN2019wxt is challenging: in a bid to characterise the level of contamination, we estimated the rate of events with properties comparable to those of SN2019wxt and found that $\sim 1$ such event per week can occur within the typical GW localisation area of O4 alerts out to a luminosity distance of 500\,Mpc, beyond which it would become fainter than the typical depth of current electromagnetic follow-up campaigns., Comment: By the ENGRAVE collaboration (engrave-eso.org). 35 pages, 20 figures, final version accepted by A&A
Published: 2022
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3. Multi-wavelength study of the luminous GRB 210619B observed with Fermi and ASIM

Author: Caballero-García, M. D., Gupta, Rahul, Pandey, S. B., Oates, S. R., Marisaldi, M., Ramsli, A., Hu, Y. -D., Castro-Tirado, A. J., Sánchez-Ramírez, R., Connell, P. H., Christiansen, F., Ror, A. Kumar, Aryan, A., Bai, J. -M., Castro-Tirado, M. A., Fan, Y. -F., Fernández-García, E., Kumar, A., Lindanger, A., Mezentsev, A., Navarro-González, J., Neubert, T., Østgaard, N., Pérez-García, I., Reglero, V., Sarria, D., Sun, T. R., Xiong, D. -R., Yang, J., Yang, Y. -H., and Zhang, B. -B.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: We report on detailed multi-wavelength observations and analysis of the very bright and long GRB 210619B, detected by the Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor (ASIM) installed on the International Space Station (ISS) and the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) on-board the Fermi mission. Our main goal is to understand the radiation mechanisms and jet composition of GRB 210619B. With a measured redshift of $z$ = 1.937, we find that GRB 210619B falls within the 10 most luminous bursts observed by Fermi so far. The energy-resolved prompt emission light curve of GRB 210619B exhibits an extremely bright hard emission pulse followed by softer/longer emission pulses. The low-energy photon indices ($\alpha_{\rm pt}$) values obtained using the time-resolved spectral analysis of the burst suggest a transition between the thermal (during harder pulse) to non-thermal (during softer pulse) outflow. We examine the correlation between spectral parameters and find that both peak energy and $\alpha_{\rm pt}$ exhibit the flux tracking pattern. The late time broadband photometric dataset can be explained within the framework of the external forward shock model with $\nu_m$ $< \nu_c$ $< \nu_{x}$ (where $\nu_m$, $\nu_c$, and $\nu_{x}$ are the synchrotron peak, cooling-break, and X-ray frequencies, respectively) spectral regime supporting a rarely observed hard electron energy index ($p<$ 2). We find moderate values of host extinction of E(B-V) = 0.14 $\pm$ 0.01 mag for the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) extinction law. In addition, we also report late-time optical observations with the 10.4 m GTC placing deep upper limits for the host galaxy ($z$=1.937), favouring a faint, dwarf host for the burst., Comment: 24 pages, 18 figures, 10 tables, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Published: 2022
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4. A deep survey of short GRB host galaxies over $z\sim0-2$: implications for offsets, redshifts, and environments

Author: O'Connor, B., Troja, E., Dichiara, S., Beniamini, P., Cenko, S. B., Kouveliotou, C., Gonzalez, J. Becerra, Durbak, J., Gatkine, P., Kutyrev, A., Sakamoto, T., Sanchez-Ramirez, R., and Veilleux, S.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: A significant fraction (30\%) of well-localized short gamma-ray bursts (sGRBs) lack a coincident host galaxy. This leads to two main scenarios: \textit{i}) that the progenitor system merged outside of the visible light of its host, or \textit{ii}) that the sGRB resided within a faint and distant galaxy that was not detected by follow-up observations. Discriminating between these scenarios has important implications for constraining the formation channels of neutron star mergers, the rate and environments of gravitational wave sources, and the production of heavy elements in the Universe. In this work, we present the results of our observing campaign targeted at 31 sGRBs that lack a putative host galaxy. Our study effectively doubles the sample of well-studied sGRB host galaxies, now totaling 72 events of which $28\%$ lack a coincident host to deep limits ($r$\,$\gtrsim$\,$26$ or $F110W$\,$\gtrsim$\,$27$ AB mag), and represents the largest homogeneously selected catalog of sGRB offsets to date. We find that 70\% of sub-arcsecond localized sGRBs occur within 10 kpc of their host's nucleus, with a median projected physical offset of $5.6$ kpc. Using this larger population, we discover an apparent redshift evolution in their locations: bursts at low-$z$ occur at $2\times$ larger offsets compared to those at $z$\,$>$\,$0.5$. This evolution could be due to a physical evolution of the host galaxies themselves or a bias against faint high-$z$ galaxies. Furthermore, we discover a sample of hostless sGRBs at $z$\,$\gtrsim$\,$1$ that are indicative of a larger high-$z$ population, constraining the redshift distribution and disfavoring log-normal delay time models., Comment: Accepted by MNRAS
Published: 2022
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5. Probing into emission mechanisms of GRB 190530A using time-resolved spectra and polarization studies: Synchrotron Origin?

Author: Gupta, Rahul, Gupta, S., Chattopadhyay, T., Lipunov, V., Castro-Tirado, A. J., Bhattacharya, D., Pandey, S. B., Oates, S. R., Kumar, Amit, Hu, Y. -D., Valeev, A. F., Minaev, P. Yu., Kumar, H., Vinko, J., Dimple, Sharma, V., Aryan, A., Castellón, A., Gabovich, A., Moskvitin, A., Ordasi, A., Pál, A., Pozanenko, A., Zhang, B. -B., Kumar, B., Svinkin, D., Saraogi, D., Vlasenko, D., Fernández-García, E., Gorbovskoy, E., Anupama, G. C., Misra, K., Sárneczky, K., Kriskovics, L., Castro-Tirado, M. Á., Caballero-García, M. D., Tiurina, N., Balanutsa, P., Lopez, R. R., Sánchez-Ramírez, R., Szakáts, R., Belkin, S., Guziy, S., Iyyani, S., Tiwari, S. N., Vadawale, Santosh V., Sun, T., Bhalerao, V., Kornilov, V., and Sokolov, V. V.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: Multi-pulsed GRB 190530A, detected by the GBM and LAT onboard \fermi, is the sixth most fluent GBM burst detected so far. This paper presents the timing, spectral, and polarimetric analysis of the prompt emission observed using \AstroSat and \fermi to provide insight into the prompt emission radiation mechanisms. The time-integrated spectrum shows conclusive proof of two breaks due to peak energy and a second lower energy break. Time-integrated (55.43 $\pm$ 21.30 \%) as well as time-resolved polarization measurements, made by the Cadmium Zinc Telluride Imager (CZTI) onboard \AstroSat, show a hint of high degree of polarization. The presence of a hint of high degree of polarization and the values of low energy spectral index ($\alpha_{\rm pt}$) do not run over the synchrotron limit for the first two pulses, supporting the synchrotron origin in an ordered magnetic field. However, during the third pulse, $\alpha_{\rm pt}$ exceeds the synchrotron line of death in few bins, and a thermal signature along with the synchrotron component in the time-resolved spectra is observed. Furthermore, we also report the earliest optical observations constraining afterglow polarization using the MASTER (P $<$ 1.3 \%) and the redshift measurement ($z$= 0.9386) obtained with the 10.4m GTC telescopes. The broadband afterglow can be described with a forward shock model for an ISM-like medium with a wide jet opening angle. We determine a circumburst density of $n_{0} \sim$ 7.41, kinetic energy $E_{\rm K} \sim$ 7.24 $\times 10^{54}$ erg, and radiated $\gamma$-ray energy $E_{\rm \gamma, iso} \sim$ 6.05 $\times 10^{54}$ erg, respectively., Comment: 28 pages, 17 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Published: 2022
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6. GRB 140102A: Insight into Prompt Spectral Evolution and Early Optical Afterglow Emission

Author: Gupta, Rahul, Oates, S. R., Pandey, S. B., Castro-Tirado, A. J., Joshi, Jagdish C., Hu, Y. -D., Valeev, A. F., Zhang, B. B., Zhang, Z., Kumar, Amit, Aryan, A., Lien, A., Kumar, B., Cui, Ch., Wang, Ch., Dimple, Bhattacharya, D., Sonbas, E., Bai, J., Tello, J. C., Gorosabel, J., Cerón, J. M. Castro, Porto, J. R. F., Misra, K., De Pasquale, M., Caballero-García, M. D., Jelínek, M., Kubánek, P., Minaev, P. Yu., Cunniffe, R., Sánchez-Ramírez, R., Guziy, S., Jeong, S., Tiwari, S. N., Razzaque, S., Bhalerao, V., Pintado, V. C., Sokolov, V. V., Zhao, X., Fan, Y., and Xin, Y.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: We present and perform a detailed analysis of multi-wavelength observations of \thisgrb, an optical bright GRB with an observed reverse shock (RS) signature. Observations of this GRB were acquired with the BOOTES-4 robotic telescope, the \fermi, and the \swift missions. Time-resolved spectroscopy of the prompt emission shows that changes to the peak energy (\Ep) tracks intensity and the low-energy spectral index seems to follow the intensity for the first episode, whereas this tracking behavior is less clear during the second episode. The fit to the afterglow light curves shows that the early optical afterglow can be described with RS emission and is consistent with the thin shell scenario of the constant ambient medium. The late time afterglow decay is also consistent with the prediction of the external forward shock (FS) model. We determine the properties of the shocks, Lorentz factor, magnetization parameters, and ambient density of \thisgrb, and compare these parameters with another 12 GRBs, consistent with having RS produced by thin shells in an ISM-like medium. The value of the magnetization parameter ($R_{\rm B} \approx 18$) indicates a moderately magnetized baryonic dominant jet composition for \thisgrb. We also report the host galaxy photometric observations of \thisgrb obtained with 10.4m GTC, 3.5m CAHA, and 3.6m DOT telescopes and find the host (photo $z$ = $2.8^{+0.7}_{-0.9}$) to be a high mass, star-forming galaxy with a star formation rate of $20 \pm 10 \msun$ $\rm yr^{-1}$., Comment: 27 pages, 16 figures, 12 tables, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Published: 2021
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7. Optical follow-up of the neutron star-black hole mergers S200105ae and S200115j

Author: Anand, Shreya, Coughlin, Michael W., Kasliwal, Mansi M., Bulla, Mattia, Ahumada, Tomás, Carracedo, Ana Sagués, Almualla, Mouza, Andreoni, Igor, Stein, Robert, Foucart, Francois, Singer, Leo P., Sollerman, Jesper, Bellm, Eric C., Bolin, Bryce, Caballero-García, M. D., Castro-Tirado, Alberto J., Cenko, S. Bradley, De, Kishalay, Dekany, Richard G., Duev, Dmitry A., Feeney, Michael, Fremling, Christoffer, Goldstein, Daniel A., Golkhou, V. Zach, Graham, Matthew J., Guessoum, Nidhal, Hankins, Matthew J., Hu, Youdong, Kong, Albert K. H., Kool, Erik C., Kulkarni, S. R., Kumar, Harsh, Laher, Russ R., Masci, Frank J., Mróz, Przemek, Nissanke, Samaya, Porter, Michael, Reusch, Simeon, Riddle, Reed, Rosnet, Philippe, Rusholme, Ben, Serabyn, Eugene, Sánchez-Ramírez, R., Rigault, Mickael, Shupe, David L., Smith, Roger, Soumagnac, Maayane T., Walters, Richard, and Valeev, Azamat F.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract: LIGO and Virgo's third observing run (O3) revealed the first neutron star-black hole (NSBH) merger candidates in gravitational waves. These events are predicted to synthesize r-process elements creating optical/near-IR "kilonova" (KN) emission. The joint gravitational-wave (GW) and electromagnetic detection of an NSBH merger could be used to constrain the equation of state of dense nuclear matter, and independently measure the local expansion rate of the universe. Here, we present the optical follow-up and analysis of two of the only three high-significance NSBH merger candidates detected to date, S200105ae and S200115j, with the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF). ZTF observed $\sim$\,48\% of S200105ae and $\sim$\,22\% of S200115j's localization probabilities, with observations sensitive to KNe brighter than $-$17.5\,mag fading at 0.5\,mag/day in g- and r-bands; extensive searches and systematic follow-up of candidates did not yield a viable counterpart. We present state-of-the-art KN models tailored to NSBH systems that place constraints on the ejecta properties of these NSBH mergers. We show that with depths of $\rm m_{\rm AB}\approx 22$ mag, attainable in meter-class, wide field-of-view survey instruments, strong constraints on ejecta mass are possible, with the potential to rule out low mass ratios, high BH spins, and large neutron star radii.
Published: 2020
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8. 10.4m GTC observations of the nearby VHE-detected GRB 190829A/SN 2019oyw

Author: Hu, Y. -D., Castro-Tirado, A. J., Kumar, A., Gupta, R., Valeev, A. F., Pandey, S. B., Kann, D. A., Castellón, A., Agudo, I., Aryan, A., Caballero-García, M. D., Guziy, S., Martin-Carrillo, A., Oates, S. R., Pian, E., Sánchez-Ramírez, R., Sokolov, V. V., and Zhang, B. -B.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: Aims. GRB 190829A (z = 0.0785), detected by Fermi and Swift with two emission episodes separated by a quiescent gap of ~40 s, was also observed by the H.E.S.S. telescopes at Very-High Energy (VHE). We present the 10.4m GTC observations of the afterglow of GRB 190829A and underlying supernova and compare it against a similar GRB 180728A and discuss the implications on underlying physical mechanisms producing these two GRBs. Methods. We present multi-band photometric data along with spectroscopic follow-up observations taken with the 10.4m GTC telescope. Together with the data from the prompt emission, the 10.4m GTC data are used to understand the emission mechanisms and possible progenitor. Results. A detailed analysis of multi-band data of the afterglow demands cooling frequency to pass between the optical and X-ray bands at early epochs and dominant with underlying SN 2019oyw later on. Conclusions. Prompt emission temporal properties of GRB 190829A and GRB 180728A are similar, however the two pulses seem different in the spectral domain. We found that the supernova (SN) 2019oyw associated with GRB 190829A, powered by Ni decay, is of Type Ic-BL and that the spectroscopic/photometric properties of this SN is consistent with those observed for SN 1998bw but evolved comparatively early., Comment: 9 pages, 8 figures, submitted to A&A
Published: 2020
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9. A search for optical and near-infrared counterparts of the compact binary merger GW190814

Author: Thakur, A. L., Dichiara, S., Troja, E., Chase, E. A., Sanchez-Ramirez, R., Piro, L., Fryer, C. L., Butler, N. R., Watson, A. M., Wollaeger, R. T., Ambrosi, E., González, J. Becerra, Becerra, R. L., Bruni, G., Cenko, S. B., Cusumano, G., D'Aì, Antonino, Durbak, J., Fontes, C. J., Gatkine, P., Hungerford, A. L., Korobkin, O., Kutyrev, A. S., Lee, W. H., Lotti, S., Minervini, G., Novara, G., La Parola, V., Pereyra, M., Ricci, R., Tiengo, A., and Veilleux, S.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: We report on our observing campaign of the compact binary merger GW190814, detected by the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo detectors on August 14th, 2019. This signal has the best localisation of any observed gravitational wave (GW) source, with a 90% probability area of 18.5 deg$^2$, and an estimated distance of ~ 240 Mpc. We obtained wide-field observations with the Deca-Degree Optical Transient Imager (DDOTI) covering 88% of the probability area down to a limiting magnitude of $w$ = 19.9 AB. Nearby galaxies within the high probability region were targeted with the Lowell Discovery Telescope (LDT), whereas promising candidate counterparts were characterized through multi-colour photometry with the Reionization and Transients InfraRed (RATIR) and spectroscopy with the Gran Telescopio de Canarias (GTC). We use our optical and near-infrared limits in conjunction with the upper limits obtained by the community to constrain the possible electromagnetic counterparts associated with the merger. A gamma-ray burst seen along its jet's axis is disfavoured by the multi-wavelength dataset, whereas the presence of a burst seen at larger viewing angles is not well constrained. Although our observations are not sensitive to a kilonova similar to AT2017gfo, we can rule out high-mass (> 0.1 M$_{\odot}$) fast-moving (mean velocity >= 0.3c) wind ejecta for a possible kilonova associated with this merger., Comment: 17 pages, 11 figures, 5 tables; updated acknowledgement section. Accepted for publication in MNRAS (10 September 2020)
Published: 2020
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10. Observation of inverse Compton emission from a long $\gamma$-ray burst

Author: Acciari, V. A., Ansoldi, S., Antonelli, L. A., Engels, A. Arbet, Baack, D., Babić, A., Banerjee, B., de Almeida, U. Barres, Barrio, J. A., González, J. Becerra, Bednarek, W., Bellizzi, L., Bernardini, E., Berti, A., Besenrieder, J., Bhattacharyya, W., Bigongiari, C., Biland, A., Blanch, O., Bonnoli, G., Bošnjak, Ž., Busetto, G., Carosi, R., Ceribella, G., Chai, Y., Chilingaryan, A., Cikota, S., Colak, S. M., Colin, U., Colombo, E., Contreras, J. L., Cortina, J., Covino, S., D'Elia, V., Da Vela, P., Dazzi, F., De Angelis, A., De Lotto, B., Delfino, M., Delgado, J., Depaoli, D., Di Pierro, F., Di Venere, L., Espiñeira, E. Do Souto, Prester, D. Dominis, Donini, A., Dorner, D., Doro, M., Elsaesser, D., Ramazani, V. Fallah, Fattorini, A., Ferrara, G., Fidalgo, D., Foffano, L., Fonseca, M. V., Font, L., Fruck, C., Fukami, S., López, R. J. García, Garczarczyk, M., Gasparyan, S., Gaug, M., Giglietto, N., Giordano, F., Godinović, N., Green, D., Guberman, D., Hadasch, D., Hahn, A., Herrera, J., Hoang, J., Hrupec, D., Hütten, M., Inada, T., Inoue, S., Ishio, K., Iwamura, Y., Jouvin, L., Kerszberg, D., Kubo, H., Kushida, J., Lamastra, A., Lelas, D., Leone, F., Lindfors, E., Lombardi, S., Longo, F., López, M., López-Coto, R., López-Oramas, A., Loporchio, S., Fraga, B. Machado de Oliveira, Maggio, C., Majumdar, P., Makariev, M., Mallamaci, M., Maneva, G., Manganaro, M., Mannheim, K., Maraschi, L., Mariotti, M., Martínez, M., Mazin, D., Mićanović, S., Miceli, D., Minev, M., Miranda, J. M., Mirzoyan, R., Molina, E., Moralejo, A., Morcuende, D., Moreno, V., Moretti, E., Munar-Adrover, P., Neustroev, V., Nigro, C., Nilsson, K., Ninci, D., Nishijima, K., Noda, K., Nogués, L., Nozaki, S., Paiano, S., Palatiello, M., Paneque, D., Paoletti, R., Paredes, J. M., Peñil, P., Peresano, M., Persic, M., Moroni, P. G. Prada, Prandini, E., Puljak, I., Rhode, W., Ribó, M., Rico, J., Righi, C., Rugliancich, A., Saha, L., Sahakyan, N., Saito, T., Sakurai, S., Satalecka, K., Schmidt, K., Schweizer, T., Sitarek, J., Šnidarić, I., Sobczynska, D., Somero, A., Stamerra, A., Strom, D., Strzys, M., Suda, Y., Surić, T., Takahashi, M., Tavecchio, F., Temnikov, P., Terzić, T., Teshima, M., Torres-Albà, N., Tosti, L., Vagelli, V., van Scherpenberg, J., Vanzo, G., Acosta, M. Vazquez, Vigorito, C. F., Vitale, V., Vovk, I., Will, M., Zarić, D., Nava, L., Veres, P., Bhat, P. N., Briggs, M. S., Cleveland, W. H., Hamburg, R., Hui, C. M., Mailyan, B., Preece, R. D., Roberts, O., von Kienlin, A., Wilson-Hodge, C. A., Kocevski, D., Arimoto, M., Tak, D., Asano, K., Axelsson, M., Barbiellini, G., Bissaldi, E., Dirirsa, F. Fana, Gill, R., Granot, J., McEnery, J., Razzaque, S., Piron, F., Racusin, J. L., Thompson, D. J., Campana, S., Bernardini, M. G., Kuin, N. P. M., Siegel, M. H., Cenko, S. Bradley, O'Brien, P., Capalbi, M., D'Aì, A., De Pasquale, M., Gropp, J., Klingler, N., Osborne, J. P., Perri, M., Starling, R., Tagliaferri, G., Tohuvavohu, A., Ursi, A., Tavani, M., Cardillo, M., Casentini, C., Piano, G., Evangelista, Y., Verrecchia, F., Pittori, C., Lucarelli, F., Bulgarelli, A., Parmiggiani, N., Anderson, G. E., Anderson, J. P., Bernardi, G., Bolmer, J., Caballero-García, M. D., Carrasco, I. M., Castellón, A., Segura, N. Castro, Castro-Tirado, A. J., Cherukuri, S. V., Cockeram, A. M., D'Avanzo, P., Di Dato, A., Diretse, R., Fender, R. P., Fernández-García, E., Fynbo, J. P. U., Fruchter, A. S., Greiner, J., Gromadzki, M., Heintz, K. E., Heywood, I., van der Horst, A. J., Hu, Y. -D., Inserra, C., Izzo, L., Jaiswal, V., Jakobsson, P., Japelj, J., Kankare, E., Kann, D. A., Kouveliotou, C., Klose, S., Levan, A. J., Li, X. Y., Lotti, S., Maguire, K., Malesani, D. B., Manulis, I., Marongiu, M., Martin, S., Melandri, A., Michałowski, M., Miller-Jones, J. C. A., Misra, K., Moin, A., Mooley, K. P., Nasri, S., Nicholl, M., Noschese, A., Novara, G., Pandey, S. B., Peretti, E., del Pulgar, C. J. Pérez, Pérez-Torres, M. A., Perley, D. A., Piro, L., Ragosta, F., Resmi, L., Ricci, R., Rossi, A., Sánchez-Ramírez, R., Selsing, J., Schulze, S., Smartt, S. J., Smith, I. A., Sokolov, V. V., Stevens, J., Tanvir, N. R., Thóne, C. C., Tiengo, A., Tremou, E., Troja, E., Postigo, A. de Ugarte, Vergani, S. D., Wieringa, M., Woudt, P. A., Xu, D., Yaron, O., and Young, D. R.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: Long-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) originate from ultra-relativistic jets launched from the collapsing cores of dying massive stars. They are characterised by an initial phase of bright and highly variable radiation in the keV-MeV band that is likely produced within the jet and lasts from milliseconds to minutes, known as the prompt emission. Subsequently, the interaction of the jet with the external medium generates external shock waves, responsible for the afterglow emission, which lasts from days to months, and occurs over a broad energy range, from the radio to the GeV bands. The afterglow emission is generally well explained as synchrotron radiation by electrons accelerated at the external shock. Recently, an intense, long-lasting emission between 0.2 and 1 TeV was observed from the GRB 190114C. Here we present the results of our multi-frequency observational campaign of GRB~190114C, and study the evolution in time of the GRB emission across 17 orders of magnitude in energy, from $5\times10^{-6}$ up to $10^{12}$\,eV. We find that the broadband spectral energy distribution is double-peaked, with the TeV emission constituting a distinct spectral component that has power comparable to the synchrotron component. This component is associated with the afterglow, and is satisfactorily explained by inverse Compton upscattering of synchrotron photons by high-energy electrons. We find that the conditions required to account for the observed TeV component are not atypical, supporting the possibility that inverse Compton emission is commonly produced in GRBs.
Published: 2020
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11. GRB 190114C in the nuclear region of an interacting galaxy -- A detailed host analysis using ALMA, HST and VLT

Author: Postigo, A. de Ugarte, Thöne, C. C., Martın, S., Japelj, J., Levan, A. J., Michałowski, M. J., Selsing, J., Kann, D. A., Schulze, S., Palmerio, J. T., Vergani, S. D., Tanvir, N. R., Bensch, K., Covino, S., D'Elia, V., De Pasquale, M., Fruchter, A. S., Fynbo, J. P. U., Hartmann, D., Heintz, K. E., van der Horst, A. J., Izzo, L., Jakobsson, P., Ng, K. C. Y., Perley, D. A., Rossi, A., Sbarufatti, B., Salvaterra, R., Sánchez-Ramírez, R., Watson, D., and Xu, D.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
Abstract: GRB 190114C is the first GRB for which the detection of very-high energy emission up to the TeV range has been reported. It is still unclear whether environmental properties might have contributed to the production of these very high-energy photons, or if it is solely related to the released GRB emission. The relatively low redshift of the GRB (z=0.425) allows us to study the host galaxy of this event in detail, and to potentially identify idiosyncrasies that could point to progenitor characteristics or environmental properties responsible for such a unique event. We use ultraviolet, optical, infrared and submillimetre imaging and spectroscopy obtained with HST, VLT and ALMA to obtain an extensive dataset on which the analysis of the host galaxy is based. The host system is composed of a close pair of interacting galaxies (Delta v = 50 km s^-1), both of which are well-detected by ALMA in CO(3-2). The GRB occurred within the nuclear region (~170 pc from the centre) of the less massive but more star-forming galaxy of the pair. The host is more massive (log(M/M_odot)=9.3) than average GRB hosts at that redshift and the location of the GRB is rather unique. The enhanced star-formation rate was probably triggered by tidal interactions between the two galaxies. Our ALMA observations indicate that both host galaxy and companion have a high molecular gas fraction, as has been observed before in interacting galaxy pairs. The location of the GRB within the core of an interacting galaxy with an extinguished line-of-sight is indicative of a denser environment than typically observed for GRBs and could have been crucial for the generation of the very-high-energy photons that were observed., Comment: A&A, in press, 11 pages
Published: 2019
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12. Kilonova Luminosity Function Constraints Based on Zwicky Transient Facility Searches for 13 Neutron Star Merger Triggers during O3

Author: Kasliwal, MM, Anand, S, Ahumada, T, Stein, R, Carracedo, AS, Andreoni, I, Coughlin, MW, Singer, LP, Kool, EC, De, K, Kumar, H, Almualla, M, Yao, Y, Bulla, M, Dobie, D, Reusch, S, Perley, DA, Cenko, SB, Bhalerao, V, Kaplan, DL, Sollerman, J, Goobar, A, Copperwheat, CM, Bellm, EC, Anupama, GC, Corsi, A, Nissanke, S, Agudo, I, Bagdasaryan, A, Barway, S, Belicki, J, Bloom, JS, Bolin, B, Buckley, DAH, Burdge, KB, Burruss, R, Caballero-García, MD, Cannella, C, Castro-Tirado, AJ, Cook, DO, Cooke, J, Cunningham, V, Dahiwale, A, Deshmukh, K, Dichiara, S, Duev, DA, Dutta, A, Feeney, M, Franckowiak, A, Frederick, S, Fremling, C, Gal-Yam, A, Gatkine, P, Ghosh, S, Goldstein, DA, Golkhou, VZ, Graham, MJ, Graham, ML, Hankins, MJ, Helou, G, Hu, Y, Ip, WH, Jaodand, A, Karambelkar, V, Kong, AKH, Kowalski, M, Khandagale, M, Kulkarni, SR, Kumar, B, Laher, RR, Li, KL, Mahabal, A, Masci, FJ, Miller, AA, Mogotsi, M, Mohite, S, Mooley, K, Mroz, P, Newman, JA, Ngeow, CC, Oates, SR, Patil, AS, Pandey, SB, Pavana, M, Pian, E, Riddle, R, Sánchez-Ramírez, R, Sharma, Y, Singh, A, Smith, R, Soumagnac, MT, Taggart, K, Tan, H, Tzanidakis, A, Troja, E, Valeev, AF, Walters, R, Waratkar, G, Webb, S, and Yu, PC
Subjects: Neutron stars, Black holes, Gravitational waves, Nucleosynthesis, R-process, Compact objects, Spectroscopy, Sky surveys, Photometry, astro-ph.HE, astro-ph.IM, astro-ph.SR, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Physical Chemistry, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Physical Chemistry (incl. Structural)
Abstract: We present a systematic search for optical counterparts to 13 gravitational wave (GW) triggers involving at least one neutron star during LIGO/Virgo's third observing run (O3). We searched binary neutron star (BNS) and neutron star black hole (NSBH) merger localizations with the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) and undertook follow-up with the Global Relay of Observatories Watching Transients Happen (GROWTH) collaboration. The GW triggers had a median localization area of 4480 deg2, a median distance of 267 Mpc, and false-alarm rates ranging from 1.5 to 10-25 yr-1. The ZTF coverage in the g and r bands had a median enclosed probability of 39%, median depth of 20.8 mag, and median time lag between merger and the start of observations of 1.5 hr. The O3 follow-up by the GROWTH team comprised 340 UltraViolet/Optical/InfraRed (UVOIR) photometric points, 64 OIR spectra, and three radio images using 17 different telescopes. We find no promising kilonovae (radioactivity-powered counterparts), and we show how to convert the upper limits to constrain the underlying kilonova luminosity function. Initially, we assume that all GW triggers are bona fide astrophysical events regardless of false-alarm rate and that kilonovae accompanying BNS and NSBH mergers are drawn from a common population; later, we relax these assumptions. Assuming that all kilonovae are at least as luminous as the discovery magnitude of GW170817 (-16.1 mag), we calculate that our joint probability of detecting zero kilonovae is only 4.2%. If we assume that all kilonovae are brighter than-16.6 mag (the extrapolated peak magnitude of GW170817) and fade at a rate of 1 mag day-1 (similar to GW170817), the joint probability of zero detections is 7%. If we separate the NSBH and BNS populations based on the online classifications, the joint probability of zero detections, assuming all kilonovae are brighter than-16.6 mag, is 9.7% for NSBH and 7.9% for BNS mergers. Moreover, no more than 10-4, or φ > 30° to be consistent with our limits. We look forward to searches in the fourth GW observing run; even 17 neutron star mergers with only 50% coverage to a depth of-16 mag would constrain the maximum fraction of bright kilonovae to
Published: 2020

13. Multiwavelength observations of GRB 140629A. A long burst with an achromatic jet break in the optical and X-ray afterglow

Author: Hu, Y. -D., Oates, S. R., Lipunov, V. M., Zhang, B. -B., Castro-Tirado, A. J., Jeong, S., Sánchez-Ramírez, R., Tello, J. C., Cunniffe, R., Gorbovskoy, E., Caballero-García, M. D., Pandey, S. B., Kornilov, V. G., Tyurina, N. V., Kuznetsov, A. S., Balanutsa, P. V., Gress, O. A., Gorbunov, I., Vlasenko, D. M., Vladimirov, V. V., Budnev, N. M., Balakin, F., Ershova, O., Krushinski, V. V., Gabovich, A. V., Yurkov, V. V., Gorosabel, J., Moskvitin, A. S., Burenin, R. A., Sokolov, V. V., Delgado, I., Guziy, S., Fernandez-García, E. J., and Park, I. H.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: We investigate the long GRB140629A through multiwavelength observations, which cover optical, infrared and X-rays between 40s and 3yr after the burst, to derive the properties of the dominant jet and its host galaxy. Polarisation observations by the MASTER telescope indicate that this burst is weakly polarised. The optical spectrum contains absorption features, from which we confirm the redshift of the GRB as originating at z=2.276. We performed spectral fitting of the X-rays to optical afterglow data and find there is no strong spectral evolution. We determine the hydrogen column density to be 7.2x10^21cm^-2 along the line of sight. The afterglow in this burst can be explained by a blast wave jet with a long-lasting central engine expanding into a uniform medium in the slow cooling regime. At the end of energy injection, a normal decay phase is observed in both the optical and X-ray bands. An achromatic jet break is also found in the afterglow light curves 0.4d after trigger. We fit the multiwavelength data simultaneously with a model based on a numerical simulation and find that the observations can be explained by a narrow uniform jet in a dense environment with an opening angle of 6.7deg viewed 3.8deg off-axis, which released a total energy of 1.4x10^54erg. Using the redshift and opening angle, we find GRB 140629A follows both the Ghirlanda and Amati relations. From the peak time of the light curve, identified as the onset of the forward shock (181s after trigger), the initial Lorentz factor is constrained in the range 82-118. Fitting the host galaxy photometry, we find the host to be a low mass, star-forming galaxy with a star formation rate of logSFR=1.1^+0.9_-0.4Myr^-1. We obtain a value of the neutral hydrogen density by fitting the optical spectrum, logN(HI)=21.0+-0.3, classifying this host as a damped Lyman-alpha. High ionisation lines are also detected in the spectrum., Comment: 18 pages, 13 figures, 8 tables, accepted for publication in A&A
Published: 2019
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14. The afterglow and kilonova of the short GRB 160821B

Author: Troja, E., Castro-Tirado, A. J., Gonzalez, J. Becerra, Hu, Y., Ryan, G. S., Cenko, S. B., Ricci, R., Novara, G., Sanchez-Ramirez, R., Acosta-Pulido, J. A., Garcia, M. D. Caballero, Guziy, S., Jeong, S., Lien, A. Y., Marquez, I., Pandey, S. B., Park, I. H., Tello, J. C., Sakamoto, T., Sokolov, I. V., Sokolov, V. V., Tiengo, A., Valeev, A. F., Zhang, B. B., and Veilleux, S.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: GRB 160821B is a short duration gamma-ray burst (GRB) detected and localized by the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory in the outskirts of a spiral galaxy at z=0.1613, at a projected physical offset of 16 kpc from the galaxy's center. We present X-ray, optical/nIR and radio observations of its counterpart and model them with two distinct components of emission: a standard afterglow, arising from the interaction of the relativistic jet with the surrounding medium, and a kilonova, powered by the radioactive decay of the sub-relativistic ejecta. Broadband modeling of the afterglow data reveals a weak reverse shock propagating backward into the jet, and a likely jet-break at 3.5 d. This is consistent with a structured jet seen slightly off-axis while expanding into a low-density medium. Analysis of the kilonova properties suggests a rapid evolution toward red colors, similar to AT2017gfo, and a low nIR luminosity, possibly due to the presence of a long-lived neutron star. The global properties of the environment, the inferred low mass (M_ej < 0.006 Msun) and velocities (v > 0.05 c) of lanthanide-rich ejecta are consistent with a binary neutron star merger progenitor., Comment: 14 pages, 6 figures, MNRAS, in press. Moderate revision, added Figure 5 and X-ray data to Table 1
Published: 2019
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15. A multi-wavelength analysis of a collection of short-duration GRBs observed between 2012-2015

Author: Pandey, S. B., Hu, Y., Castro-Tirado, A. J., Pozanenko, A. S., Sánchez-Ramírez, R., Gorosabel, J., Guziy, 5 S., Jelinek, M., Tello, J. C., Jeong, S., Oates, S. R., Zhang, B. -B., Mazaeva, E. D., Volnova, A. A., Minaev, P. Yu., van Eerten, H. J., Caballero-García, M. D., Pérez-Ramírez, D., Bremer, M., Winters, J. -M., Park, I. H., Guelbenzu, A. Nicuesa, Klose, S., Moskvitin, A., Sokolov, V. V., Sonbas, E., Ayala, A., Cepa, J., Butler, N., Troja, E., Chernenko, A. M., Molkov, S. V., Volvach, A. E., Inasaridze, R. Ya., Egamberdiyev, Sh. A., Burkhonov, O., Reva, I. V., Polyakov, K. A., Matkin, A. A., Ivanov, A. L., Molotov, I., Guver, T., Watson, A. M., Kutyrev, A., Lee, W. H., Fox, O., Littlejohns, O., Cucchiara, A., Gonzalez, J., Richer, M. G., Román-Zúñiga, C. G., Tanvir, N. R., Bloom, J. S., Prochaska, J. X., Gehrels, N., Moseley, H., de Diego, J. A., Ramírez-Ruiz, E., Klunko, E. V., Fan, Y., Zhao, X., Bai, J., Wang, Ch., Xin, Y., Cui, Ch., Tungalag, N., Peng, Z. -K., Kumar, Amit, Gupta, Rahul, Aryan, Amar, Kumar, Brajesh, Volvach, L. N., Lamb, G. P., and Valeev, A. F.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: We investigate the prompt emission and the afterglow properties of short duration gamma-ray burst (sGRB) 130603B and another eight sGRB events during 2012-2015, observed by several multi-wavelength facilities including the GTC 10.4m telescope. Prompt emission high energy data of the events were obtained by INTEGRAL/SPI/ACS, Swift/BAT and Fermi/GBM satellites. The prompt emission data by INTEGRAL in the energy range of 0.1-10 MeV for sGRB 130603B, sGRB 140606A, sGRB 140930B, sGRB 141212A and sGRB 151228A do not show any signature of the extended emission or precursor activity and their spectral and temporal properties are similar to those seen in case of other short bursts. For sGRB130603B, our new afterglow photometric data constraints the pre jet-break temporal decay due to denser temporal coverage. For sGRB 130603B, the afterglow light curve, containing both our new as well as previously published photometric data is broadly consistent with the ISM afterglow model. Modeling of the host galaxies of sGRB 130603B and sGRB 141212A using the LePHARE software supports a scenario in which the environment of the burst is undergoing moderate star formation activity. From the inclusion of our late-time data for 8 other sGRBs we are able to; place tight constraints on the non-detection of the afterglow, host galaxy or any underlying kilonova emission. Our late-time afterglow observations of the sGRB 170817A/GW170817 are also discussed and compared with the sub-set of sGRBs., Comment: 24 pages, 22 figures, Accepted to MNRAS, 2019 February 19. Received 2019 February 19; in original form 2018 August 30
Published: 2019
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16. Signatures of a jet cocoon in early spectra of a supernova associated with a $\gamma$-ray burst

Author: Izzo, L., Postigo, A. de Ugarte, Maeda, K., Thöne, C. C., Kann, D. A., Della Valle, M., Carracedo, A. Sagues, Michałowski, M. J., Schady, P., Schmidl, S., Selsing, J., Starling, R. L. C., Suzuki, A., Bensch, K., Bolmer, J., Campana, S., Cano, Z., Covino, S., Fynbo, J. P. U., Hartmann, D. H., Heintz, K. E., Hjorth, J., Japelj, J., Kamiński, K., Kaper, L., Kouveliotou, C., Krużyński, M., Kwiatkowski, T., Leloudas, G., Levan, A. J., Malesani, D. B., Michałowski, T., Piranomonte, S., Pugliese, G., Rossi, A., Sánchez-Ramírez, R., Schulze, S., Steeghs, D., Tanvir, N. R., Ulaczyk, K., Vergani, S. D., and Wiersema, K.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: Long gamma-ray bursts mark the death of massive stars, as revealed by their association with energetic broad-lined stripped-envelope supernovae. The scarcity of nearby events and the brightness of the GRB afterglow, dominating the first days of emission, have so far prevented the study of the very early stages of the GRB-SN evolution. Here we present detailed, multi-epoch spectroscopic observations of SN 2017iuk, associated with GRB 171205A which display features at extremely high expansion velocities of $\sim$ 100,000 km s$^{-1}$ within the first day after the burst. These high-velocity components are characterized by chemical abundances different from those observed in the ejecta of SN 2017iuk at later times. Using spectral synthesis models developed for the SN 2017iuk, we explain these early features as originating not from the supernova ejecta, but from a hot cocoon generated by the energy injection of a mildly-relativistic GRB jet expanding into the medium surrounding the progenitor star. This cocoon becomes rapidly transparent and is outshone by the supernova emission which starts dominating three days after the burst. These results proves that the jet plays an important role not only in powering the GRB event but also its associated supernova., Comment: 30 pages, 11 figures, 4 tables. Original author manuscript version of a Letter published in Nature journal. Full article available at https://goo.gl/7y9ZeM
Published: 2019
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17. The luminous host galaxy, faint supernova and rapid afterglow rebrightening of GRB 100418A

Author: Postigo, A. de Ugarte, Thoene, C. C., Bensch, K., van der Horst, A. J., Kann, D. A., Cano, Z., Izzo, L., Goldoni, P., Martin, S., Filgas, R., Schady, P., Gorosabel, J., Bikmaev, I., Bremer, M., Burenin, R., Castro-Tirado, A. J., Covino, S., Fynbo, J. P. U., Garcia-Appadoo, D., de Gregorio-Monsalvo, I., Jelinek, M., Khamitov, I., Kamble, A., Kouveliotou, C., Kruehler, T., Melnikov, S., Nardini, M., Perley, D. A., Petitpas, G., Pooley, G., Rau, A., Rol, E., Sanchez-Ramirez, R., Starling, R. L. C., Tanvir, N. R., Wiersema, K., Wijers, R. A. M. J., and Zafar, T.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: Long gamma-ray bursts give us the chance to study both their extreme physics and the star-forming galaxies in which they form. GRB 100418A, at a z = 0.6239, had a bright optical and radio afterglow, and a luminous star-forming host galaxy. This allowed us to study the radiation of the explosion as well as the interstellar medium of the host both in absorption and emission. We collected photometric data from radio to X-ray wavelengths to study the evolution of the afterglow and the contribution of a possible supernova and three X-shooter spectra obtained during the first 60 hr. The light curve shows a very fast optical rebrightening, with an amplitude of 3 magnitudes, starting 2.4 hr after the GRB onset. This cannot be explained by a standard external shock model and requires other contributions, such as late central-engine activity. Two weeks after the burst we detect an excess in the light curve consistent with a SN with peak absolute magnitude M_V = -18.5 mag, among the faintest GRB-SNe detected to date. The host galaxy shows two components in emission, with velocities differing by 130 km s^-1, but otherwise having similar properties. While some absorption and emission components coincide, the absorbing gas spans much higher velocities, indicating the presence of gas beyond the star-forming regions. The host has a star-formation rate of 12.2 M_sol yr^-1, a metallicity of 12 + log(O/H) = 8.55 and a mass of 1.6x10^9 M_sol. GRB 100418A is a member of a class of afterglow light curves which show a steep rebrightening in the optical during the first day, which cannot be explained by traditional models. Its very faint associated SN shows that GRB-SNe can have a larger dispersion in luminosities than previously seen. Furthermore, we have obtained a complete view of the host of GRB 100418A owing to its spectrum, which contains a remarkable number of both emission and absorption lines., Comment: 23 pages, 14 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
Published: 2018
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18. X-shooter and ALMA spectroscopy of GRB 161023A - A study of metals and molecules in the line of sight towards a luminous GRB

Author: Postigo, A. de Ugarte, Thöne, C. C., Bolmer, J., Schulze, S., Martín, S., Kann, D. A., D'Elia, V., Selsing, J., Martin-Carrillo, A., Perley, D. A., Kim, S., Izzo, L., Sánchez-Ramírez, R., Guidorzi, C., Klotz, A., Wiersema, K., Bauer, F. E., Bensch, K., Campana, S., Cano, Z., Covino, S., Coward, D., De Cia, A., de Gregorio-Monsalvo, I., De Pasquale, M., Fynbo, J. P. U., Greiner, J., Gomboc, A., Hanlon, L., Hansen, M., Hartmann, D. H., Heintz, K. E., Jakobsson, P., Kobayashi, S., Malesani, D. B., Martone, R., Meintjes, P. J., Michalowski, M. J., Mundell, C. G., Murphy, D., Oates, S., Resmi, L., Salmon, L., van Soelen, B., Tanvir, N. R., Turpin, D., Xu, D., and Zafar, T.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: Long gamma-ray bursts are produced during the dramatic deaths of massive stars with very short lifetimes, meaning that they explode close to the birth place of their progenitors. During a short period they become the most luminous objects observable in the Universe, being perfect beacons to study high-redshift star-forming regions. To use the afterglow of GRB 161023A at a redshift $z=2.710$ as a background source to study the environment of the explosion and the intervening systems along its line-of-sight. r the first time, we complement UV/Optical/NIR spectroscopy with millimetre spectroscopy using ALMA, which allows us to probe the molecular content of the host galaxy. The X-shooter spectrum shows a plethora of absorption features including fine-structure and metastable transitions of Fe, Ni, Si, C and O. We present photometry ranging from 43 s to over 500 days after the burst. We infer a host-galaxy metallicity of [Zn/H] $=-1.11\pm0.07$, which corrected for dust depletion results in [X/H] $=-0.94\pm0.08$. We do not detect molecular features in the ALMA data, but we derive limits on the molecular content of $log(N_{CO}/cm^{-2})<15.7$ and $log(N_{HCO+}/cm^{-2})<13.2$, which are consistent with those that we obtain from the optical spectra, $log(N_{H_2}/cm^{-2})<15.2$ and $log(N_{CO}/cm^{-2})<14.5$. Within the host galaxy we detect three velocity systems through UV/Optical/NIR absorption spectroscopy, all with levels that were excited by the GRB afterglow. We determine the distance from these systems to the GRB to be in the range between 0.7 and 1.0 kpc. The sight-line to GRB 161023A shows 9 independent intervening systems, most of them with multiple components. (Abridged), Comment: 28 pages, 19 pages main text, 9 pages appendix; accepted for publication in A&A
Published: 2018
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19. Highly-ionized metals as probes of the circumburst gas in the natal regions of gamma-ray bursts

Author: Heintz, K. E., Watson, D., Jakobsson, P., Fynbo, J. P. U., Bolmer, J., Arabsalmani, M., Cano, Z., Covino, S., D'Elia, V., Gomboc, A., Japelj, J., Kaper, L., Krogager, J. -K., Pugliese, G., Sánchez-Ramírez, R., Selsing, J., Sparre, M., Tanvir, N. R., Thöne, C. C., Postigo, A. de Ugarte, and Vergani, S. D.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
Abstract: We present here a survey of high-ionization absorption lines in the afterglow spectra of long-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) obtained with the VLT/X-shooter spectrograph. Our main goal is to investigate the circumburst medium in the natal regions of GRBs. Our primary focus is on the NV 1238,1242 line transitions, but we also discuss other high-ionization lines such as OVI, CIV and SiIV. We find no correlation between the column density of NV and the neutral gas properties such as metallicity, HI column density and dust depletion, however the relative velocity of NV, typically a blueshift with respect to the neutral gas, is found to be correlated with the column density of HI. This may be explained if the NV gas is part of an HII region hosting the GRB, where the region's expansion is confined by dense, neutral gas in the GRB's host galaxy. We find tentative evidence (at 2-sigma significance) that the X-ray derived column density, N_H,X, may be correlated with the column density of NV, which would indicate that both measurements are sensitive to the column density of the gas located in the vicinity of the GRB. We investigate the scenario where NV (and also OVI) is produced by recombination after the corresponding atoms have been stripped entirely of their electrons by the initial prompt emission, in contrast to previous models where highly-ionized gas is produced by photoionization from the GRB afterglow., Comment: 13 pages, 8 figures + Appendix. Accepted in MNRAS
Published: 2018
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20. The fraction of ionizing radiation from massive stars that escapes to the intergalactic medium

Author: Tanvir, N. R., Fynbo, J. P. U., Postigo, A. de Ugarte, Japelj, J., Wiersema, K., Malesani, D., Perley, D. A., Levan, A. J., Selsing, J., Cenko, S. B., Kann, D. A., Milvang-Jensen, B., Berger, E., Cano, Z., Chornock, R., Covino, S., Cucchiara, A., D'Elia, V., Goldoni, P., Gomboc, A., Heintz, K. E., Hjorth, J., Izzo, L., Jakobsson, P., Kaper, L., Kruehler, T., Laskar, T., Myers, M., Piranomonte, S., Pugliese, G., Sanchez-Ramirez, R., Schulze, S., Sparre, M., Stanway, E. R., Tagliaferri, G., Thoene, C. C., Vergani, S., Vreeswijk, P. M., Wijers, R. A. M. J., Watson, D., and Xu, D.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: The part played by stars in the ionization of the intergalactic medium remains an open question. A key issue is the proportion of the stellar ionizing radiation that escapes the galaxies in which it is produced. Spectroscopy of gamma-ray burst afterglows can be used to determine the neutral hydrogen column-density in their host galaxies and hence the opacity to extreme ultra-violet radiation along the lines-of-sight to the bursts. Thus, making the reasonable assumption that long-duration GRB locations are representative of the sites of massive stars that dominate EUV production, one can calculate an average escape fraction of ionizing radiation in a way that is independent of galaxy size, luminosity or underlying spectrum. Here we present a sample of NH measures for 138 GRBs in the range 1.6~0.005, with a 98% confidence upper limit of ~0.015. This analysis suggests that stars provide a small contribution to the ionizing radiation budget of the IGM at z<5, where the bulk of the bursts lie. At higher redshifts, z>5, firm conclusions are limited by the small size of the GRB sample, but any decline in average HI column-density seems to be modest. We also find no indication of a significant correlation of NH with galaxy UV luminosity or host stellar mass, for the subset of events for which these are available. We discuss in some detail a number of selection effects and potential biases. Drawing on a range of evidence we argue that such effects, while not negligible, are unlikely to produce systematic errors of more than a factor ~2, and so would not affect the primary conclusions. Given that many GRB hosts are low metallicity, high specific star-formation rate, dwarf galaxies, these results present a particular problem for the hypothesis that such galaxies dominated the reionization of the universe., Comment: 31 pages
Published: 2018
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21. The X-shooter GRB afterglow legacy sample (XS-GRB)

Author: Selsing, J., Malesani, D., Goldoni, P., Fynbo, J. P. U., Krühler, T., Antonelli, L. A., Arabsalmani, M., Bolmer, J., Cano, Z., Christensen, L., Covino, S., D'Avanzo, P., D'Elia, V., De Cia, A., Postigo, A. de Ugarte, Flores, H., Friis, M., Gomboc, A., Greiner, J., Groot, P., Hammer, F., Hartoog, O. E., Heintz, K. E., Hjorth, J., Jakobsson, P., Japelj, J., Kann, D. A., Kaper, L., Ledoux, C., Leloudas, G., Levan, A. J., Maiorano, E., Melandri, A., Milvang-Jensen, B., Palazzi, E., Palmerio, J. T., Perley, D. A., Pian, E., Piranomonte, S., Pugliese, G., Sánchez-Ramírez, R., Savaglio, S., Schady, P., Schulze, S., Sollerman, J., Sparre, M., Tagliaferri, G., Tanvir, N. R., Thöne, C. C., Vergani, S. D., Vreeswijk, P., Watson, D., Wiersema, K., Wijers, R., Xu, D., and Zafar, T.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: In this work we present spectra of all $\gamma$-ray burst (GRB) afterglows that have been promptly observed with the X-shooter spectrograph until 31-03-2017. In total, we obtained spectroscopic observations of 103 individual GRBs observed within 48 hours of the GRB trigger. Redshifts have been measured for 97 per cent of these, covering a redshift range from 0.059 to 7.84. Based on a set of observational selection criteria that minimize biases with regards to intrinsic properties of the GRBs, the follow-up effort has been focused on producing a homogeneous sample of 93 afterglow spectra for GRBs discovered by the Swift satellite. We here provide a public release of all the reduced spectra, including continuum estimates and telluric absorption corrections. For completeness, we also provide reductions for the 18 late-time observations of the underlying host galaxies. We provide an assessment of the degree of completeness with respect to the parent GRB population, in terms of the X-ray properties of the bursts in the sample and find that the sample presented here is representative of the full Swift sample. We constrain the fraction of dark bursts to be < 28 per cent and we confirm previous results that higher optical darkness is correlated with increased X-ray absorption. For the 42 bursts for which it is possible, we provide a measurement of the neutral hydrogen column density, increasing the total number of published HI column density measurements by $\sim$ 33 per cent. This dataset provides a unique resource to study the ISM across cosmic time, from the local progenitor surroundings to the intervening universe., Comment: 41 pages, 10 Figures, 4 Tables. Submitted to A&A. Paper and code also available at https://github.com/jselsing/XSGRB-sample-paper
Published: 2018
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22. A multiwavelength analysis of a collection of short-duration GRBs observed between 2012 and 2015

Author: Pandey, SB, Hu, Y, Castro-Tirado, Ao J, Pozanenko, AS, Sánchez-Ramírez, R, Gorosabel, J, Guziy, S, Jelinek, M, Tello, JC, Jeong, S, Oates, SR, Zhang, B-B, Mazaeva, ED, Volnova, AA, Minaev, P Yu, van Eerten, HJ, Caballero-García, MD, Pérez-Ramírez, D, Bremer, M, Winters, J-M, Park, IH, Guelbenzu, A Nicuesa, Klose, S, Moskvitin, A, Sokolov, VV, Sonbas, E, Ayala, A, Cepa, J, Butler, N, Troja, E, Chernenko, AM, Molkov, SV, Volvach, AE, Inasaridze, R Ya, Egamberdiyev, Sh A, Burkhonov, O, Reva, IV, Polyakov, KA, Matkin, AA, Ivanov, AL, Molotov, I, Guver, T, Watson, AM, Kutyrev, A, Lee, WH, Fox, O, Littlejohns, O, Cucchiara, A, Gonzalez, J, Richer, MG, Román-Zúñiga, CG, Tanvir, NR, Bloom, JS, Prochaska, JX, Gehrels, N, Moseley, H, de Diego, JA, Ramírez-Ruiz, E, Klunko, EV, Fan, Y, Zhao, X, Bai, J, Wang, Ch, Xin, Y, Cui, Ch, Tungalag, N, Peng, Z-K, Kumar, Amit, Gupta, Rahul, Aryan, Amar, Kumar, Brajesh, Volvach, LN, Lamb, GP, and Valeev, AF
Subjects: Astronomical Sciences, Physical Sciences, gamma-rays: general, X-ray: bursts, techniques: photometric, radiation mechanims : non-thermalonova, astro-ph.HE, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Astronomical sciences, Particle and high energy physics, Space sciences
Abstract: We investigate the prompt emission and the afterglow properties of short-duration gamma-ray burst (sGRB) 130603B and another eight sGRB events during 2012-2015, observed by several multiwavelength facilities including the Gran Canarias Telescope 10.4 m telescope. Prompt emission high energy data of the events were obtained by INTEGRAL-SPI-ACS, Swift-BAT, and Fermi-GBM satellites. The prompt emission data by INTEGRAL in the energy range of 0.1-10 MeV for sGRB 130603B, sGRB 140606A, sGRB 140930B, sGRB 141212A, and sGRB 151228A do not show any signature of the extended emission or precursor activity and their spectral and temporal properties are similar to those seen in case of other short bursts. For sGRB 130603B, our new afterglow photometric data constrain the pre-jet-break temporal decay due to denser temporal coverage. For sGRB 130603B, the afterglow light curve, containing both our new and previously published photometric data is broadly consistent with the ISM afterglow model. Modeling of the host galaxies of sGRB 130603B and sGRB 141212A using the LePHARE software supports a scenario in which the environment of the burst is undergoing moderate star formation activity. From the inclusion of our late-time data for eight other sGRBs we are able to: place tight constraints on the non-detection of the afterglow, host galaxy, or any underlying 'kilonova' emission. Our late-time afterglow observations of the sGRB 170817A/GW170817 are also discussed and compared with the sub-set of sGRBs.
Published: 2019

23. Solving the conundrum of intervening strong MgII absorbers towards GRBs and quasars

Author: Christensen, L., Vergani, S. D., Schulze, S., Annau, N., Selsing, J., Fynbo, J. P. U., Postigo, A. de Ugarte, Cañameras, R., Lopez, S., Passi, D., Cortés-Zuleta, P., Ellison, S. L., D'Odorico, V., Becker, G., Berg, T. A. M., Cano, Z., Covino, S., Cupani, G., D'Elia, V., Goldoni, P., Gomboc, A., Hammer, F., Heintz, K. E., Jakobsson, P., Japelj, J., Kaper, L., Malesani, D., Møller, P., Petitjean, P., Pugliese, V., Sánchez-Ramírez, R., Tanvir, N. R., Thöne, C. C., Vestergaard, M., Wiersema, K., and Worseck, G.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
Abstract: Previous studies have shown that the incidence rate of intervening strong MgII absorbers towards GRBs were a factor of 2 - 4 higher than towards quasars. Exploring the similar sized and uniformly selected legacy data sets XQ-100 and XSGRB, each consisting of 100 quasar and 81 GRB afterglow spectra obtained with a single instrument (VLT/X-shooter), we demonstrate that there is no disagreement in the number density of strong MgII absorbers with rest-frame equivalent widths $W_r^{2796} >$ 1 {\AA} towards GRBs and quasars in the redshift range 0.1 < z < 5. With large and similar sample sizes, and path length coverages of $\Delta$z = 57.8 and 254.4 for GRBs and quasars, respectively, the incidences of intervening absorbers are consistent within 1 sigma uncertainty levels at all redshifts. For absorbers at z < 2.3 the incidence towards GRBs is a factor of 1.5$\pm$0.4 higher than the expected number of strong MgII absorbers in SDSS quasar spectra, while for quasar absorbers observed with X-shooter we find an excess factor of 1.4$\pm$0.2 relative to SDSS quasars. Conversely, the incidence rates agree at all redshifts with reported high spectral resolution quasar data, and no excess is found. The only remaining discrepancy in incidences is between SDSS MgII catalogues and high spectral resolution studies. The rest-frame equivalent width distribution also agrees to within 1 sigma uncertainty levels between the GRB and quasar samples. Intervening strong MgII absorbers towards GRBs are therefore neither unusually frequent, nor unusually strong., Comment: 10 pages, accepted for publication in A&A
Published: 2017
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24. The host galaxy of the short GRB111117A at $z = 2.211$: impact on the short GRB redshift distribution and progenitor channels

Author: Selsing, J., Krühler, T., Malesani, D., D'Avanzo, P., Schulze, S., Palmerio, J., Vergani, S. D., Japelj, J., Milvang-Jensen, B., Watson, D., Jakobsson, P., Bolmer, J., Cano, Z., Covino, S., Christensen, L. B., D'Elia, V., Postigo, A. de Ugarte, Fynbo, J. P. U., Gomboc, A., Heintz, K. E., Kaper, L., Levan, A. J., Piranomonte, S., Pugliese, G., Sánchez-Ramírez, R., Sparre, M., Tanvir, N. R., Thöne, C. C., and Wiersema, K.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: It is notoriously difficult to localize short $\gamma$-ray bursts (sGRBs) and their hosts to measure their redshifts. These measurements, however, are critical to constrain the nature of sGRB progenitors, their redshift distribution and the $r$-process element enrichment history of the universe. Here, we present spectroscopy of the host galaxy of GRB111117A and measure its redshift to be $z = 2.211$. This makes GRB111117A the most distant high-confidence short duration GRB detected to date. Our spectroscopic redshift supersedes a lower, previously estimated photometric redshift value for this burst. We use the spectroscopic redshift, as well as new imaging data to constrain the nature of the host galaxy and the physical parameters of the GRB. The rest-frame X-ray derived hydrogen column density, for example, is the highest compared to a complete sample of sGRBs and seems to follow the evolution with redshift as traced by the hosts of long GRBs (lGRBs). The host lies in the brighter end of the expected sGRB host brightness distribution at $z = 2.211$, and is actively forming stars. Using the host as a benchmark for redshift determination, we find that between 43 and 71 per cent of all sGRB redshifts should be missed due to host faintness for hosts at $z\sim2$. The high redshift of GRB111117A is evidence against a lognormal delay-time model for sGRBs through the predicted redshift distribution of sGRBs, which is very sensitive to high-$z$ sGRBs. From the age of the universe at the time of GRB explosion, an initial neutron star (NS) separation of $a_0 < 3.2~R_\odot$ is required in the case where the progenitor system is a circular pair of inspiralling NSs. This constraint excludes some of the longest sGRB formation channels for this burst., Comment: 8 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables. Submitted for publication in A&A. All data, code and calculations related to the paper along with the paper itself are available at https://github.com/jselsing/GRB111117A
Published: 2017
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25. The MUSE view of the host galaxy of GRB 100316D

Author: Izzo, L., Thöne, C. C., Schulze, S., Mehner, A., Flores, H., Cano, Z., Postigo, A. de Ugarte, Kann, D. A., Amorìn, R., Anderson, J. P., Bauer, F. E., Bensch, K., Christensen, L., Covino, S., Della Valle, M., Fynbo, J. P. U., Jakobsson, P., Klose, S., Kuncarayakti, H., Leloudas, G., Milvang-Jensen, B., Möller, P., Puech, M., Rossi, A., Sànchez-Ramìrez, R., and Vergani, S. D.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
Abstract: The low distance, $z=0.0591$, of GRB 100316D and its association with SN 2010bh represent two important motivations for studying this host galaxy and the GRB's immediate environment with the Integral-Field Spectrographs like VLT/MUSE. Its large field-of-view allows us to create 2D maps of gas metallicity, ionization level, and the star-formation rate distribution maps, as well as to investigate the presence of possible host companions. The host is a late-type dwarf irregular galaxy with multiple star-forming regions and an extended central region with signatures of on-going shock interactions. The GRB site is characterized by the lowest metallicity, the highest star-formation rate and the youngest ($\sim$ 20-30 Myr) stellar population in the galaxy, which suggest a GRB progenitor stellar population with masses up to 20 -- 40 $M_{\odot}$. We note that the GRB site has an offset of $\sim$660pc from the most luminous SF region in the host. The observed SF activity in this galaxy may have been triggered by a relatively recent gravitational encounter between the host and a small undetected ($L_{H\alpha} \leq 10^{36}$ erg/s) companion., Comment: 19 pages, 17 figures, 6 tables. Updated version after referee comments. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Published: 2017
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26. GRB 161219B / SN 2016jca: A low-redshift gamma-ray burst supernova powered by radioactive heating

Author: Cano, Z., Izzo, L., Postigo, A. de Ugarte, Thoene, C. C., Kruehler, T., Heintz, K. E., Malesani, D., Geier, S., Fuentes, C., Chen, T. -W., Covino, S., D'Elia, V., Fynbo, J. P. U., Goldoni, P., Gomboc, A., Hjorth, J., Jakobsson, P., Kann, D. A., Milvang-Jensen, B., Pugliese, G., Sanchez-Ramirez, R., Schulze, S., Sollerman, J., Tanvir, N. R., and Wiersema, K.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: Since the first discovery of a broad-lined type Ic supernova (SN) with a long-duration gamma-ray burst (GRB) in 1998, fewer than fifty gamma-ray burst supernovae (GRB-SNe) have been discovered. The intermediate-luminosity Swift GRB 161219B and its associated supernova SN 2016jca, which occurred at a redshift of z=0.1475, represents only the seventh GRB-SN to have been discovered within 1 Gpc, and hence provides an excellent opportunity to investigate the observational and physical properties of these very elusive and rare type of SN. As such, we present optical to near-infrared photometry and optical spectroscopy of GRB 161219B and SN 2016jca, spanning the first three months since its discovery. GRB 161219B exploded in the disk of an edge-on spiral galaxy at a projected distance of 3.4 kpc from the galactic centre. GRB 161219B itself is an outlier of the Amati relation, while SN 2016jca had a rest-frame, peak absolute V-band magnitude of M_V = -19.0, which it reached after 12.5 rest-frame days. We find that the bolometric properties of SN 2016jca are inconsistent with being powered solely by a magnetar central engine, as proposed by other authors, and demonstrate that it was likely powered exclusively by energy deposited by the radioactive decay of nickel and cobalt into their daughter products, which were nucleosynthesized when its progenitor underwent core collapse. We find that 0.22 solar masses of nickel is required to reproduce the peak luminosity of SN 2016jca, and we constrain an ejecta mass of 5.8 solar masses and a kinetic energy of ~5 x 10^52 erg. Finally, we report on a chromatic, pre-maximum bump in the g-band light curve, and discuss its possible origin. [Abridged], Comment: 23 pages, 17 figures, 5 tables. Submitted to A&A. Comments welcomed
Published: 2017
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27. The properties of GRB 120923A at a spectroscopic redshift of z=7.8

Author: Tanvir, N. R., Laskar, T., Levan, A. J., Perley, D. A., Zabl, J., Fynbo, J. P. U., Rhoads, J., Cenko, S. B., Greiner, J., Wiersema, K., Hjorth, J., Cucchiara, A., Berger, E., Bremer, M. N., Cano, Z., Cobb, B. E., Covino, S., D'Elia, V., Fong, W., Fruchter, A. S., Goldoni, P., Hammer, F., Heintz, K. E., Jakobsson, P., Kann, D. A., Kaper, L., Klose, S., Knust, F., Kruehler, T., Malesani, D., Misra, K., Guelbenzu, A. Nicuesa, Pugliese, G., Sanchez-Ramirez, R., Schulze, S., Stanway, E. R., Postigo, A. de Ugarte, Watson, D., Wijers, R. A. M. J., and Xu, D.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are powerful probes of early stars and galaxies, during and potentially even before the era of reionization. Although the number of GRBs identified at z>6 remains small, they provide a unique window on typical star-forming galaxies at that time, and thus are complementary to deep field observations. We report the identification of the optical drop-out afterglow of Swift GRB 120923A in near-infrared Gemini-North imaging, and derive a redshift of z=7.84_{-0.12}^{+0.06} from VLT/X-shooter spectroscopy. At this redshift the peak 15-150 keV luminosity of the burst was 3.2x10^52 erg/s, and in fact the burst was close to the Swift/BAT detection threshold. The X-ray and near-infrared afterglow were also faint, and in this sense it was a rather typical long-duration GRB in terms of rest-frame luminosity. We present ground- and space-based follow-up observations spanning from X-ray to radio, and find that a standard external shock model with a constant-density circumburst environment with density, n~4x10^-2 cm^-3 gives a good fit to the data. The near-infrared light curve exhibits a sharp break at t~3.4 days in the observer frame, which if interpreted as being due to a jet corresponds to an opening angle of ~5 degrees. The beaming corrected gamma-ray energy is then E_gamma~2x10^50 erg, while the beaming-corrected kinetic energy is lower, E_K~10^49 erg, suggesting that GRB 120923A was a comparatively low kinetic energy event. We discuss the implications of this event for our understanding of the high-redshift population of GRBs and their identification., Comment: 20 pages
Published: 2017
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28. Transition from Fireball to Poynting-flux-dominated Outflow in Three-Episode GRB 160625B

Author: Zhang, B. -B., Zhang, B., Castro-Tirado, A. J., Dai, Z. G., Tam, P. -H. T., Wang, X. -Y., Hu, Y. -D., Karpov, S., Pozanenko, A., Zhang, F. -W., Mazaeva, E., Minaev, P., Volnova, A., Oates, S., Gao, H., Wu, X. -F., Shao, L., Tang, Q. -W., Beskin, G., Biryukov, A., Bondar, S., Ivanov, E., Katkova, E., Orekhova, N., Perkov, A., Sasyuk, V., Mankiewicz, L., Zarnecki, A. F., Cwiek, A., Opiela, R., Zadrozny, A., Aptekar, R., Frederiks, D., Svinkin, D., Kusakin, A., Inasaridze, R., Burhonov, O., Rumyantsev, V., Klunko, E., Moskvitin, A., Fatkhullin, T., Sokolov, V. V., Valeev, A. F., Jeong, S., Park, I. H., Caballero-Garcia, M. D., Cunniffe, R., Tello, J. C., Ferrero, P., Pandey, S. B., Jelinek, M., Peng, F. K., Sanchez-Ramirez, R., and Castellon, A.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: The ejecta composition is an open question in gamma-ray bursts (GRB) physics. Some GRBs possess a quasi-thermal spectral component in the time-resolved spectral analysis, suggesting a hot fireball origin. Others show a featureless non-thermal spectrum known as the "Band" function, consistent with a synchrotron radiation origin and suggesting that the jet is Poynting-flux-dominated at the central engine and likely in the emission region as well. There are also bursts showing a sub-dominant thermal component and a dominant synchrotron component suggesting a likely hybrid jet composition. Here we report an extraordinarily bright GRB 160625B, simultaneously observed in gamma-rays and optical wavelengths, whose prompt emission consists of three isolated episodes separated by long quiescent intervals, with the durations of each "sub-burst" being $\sim$ 0.8 s, 35 s, and 212 s, respectively. Its high brightness (with isotropic peak luminosity L$_{\rm p, iso}\sim 4\times 10^{53}$ erg/s) allows us to conduct detailed time-resolved spectral analysis in each episode, from precursor to main burst and to extended emission. The spectral properties of the first two sub-bursts are distinctly different, allowing us to observe the transition from thermal to non-thermal radiation between well-separated emission episodes within a single GRB. Such a transition is a clear indication of the change of jet composition from a fireball to a Poynting-flux-dominated jet., Comment: Revised version reflecting the referees' comments. 27 pages, 11 figures, 5 tables. The final edited version will appear in Nature Astronomy
Published: 2016

29. Very-high-frequency oscillations in the main peak of a magnetar giant flare

Author: Castro-Tirado, A. J., Østgaard, N., Göǧüş, E., Sánchez-Gil, C., Pascual-Granado, J., Reglero, V., Mezentsev, A., Gabler, M., Marisaldi, M., Neubert, T., Budtz-Jørgensen, C., Lindanger, A., Sarria, D., Kuvvetli, I., Cerdá-Durán, P., Navarro-González, J., Font, J. A., Zhang, B.-B., Lund, N., Oxborrow, C. A., Brandt, S., Caballero-García, M. D., Carrasco-García, I. M., Castellón, A., Castro Tirado, M. A., Christiansen, F., Eyles, C. J., Fernández-García, E., Genov, G., Guziy, S., Hu, Y.-D., Nicuesa Guelbenzu, A., Pandey, S. B., Peng, Z.-K., Pérez del Pulgar, C., Reina Terol, A. J., Rodríguez, E., Sánchez-Ramírez, R., Sun, T., Ullaland, K., and Yang, S.
Published: 2021
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30. The X-ray counterpart to the gravitational-wave event GW170817

Author: Troja, E, Piro, L, Van Eerten, H, Wollaeger, RT, Im, M, Fox, OD, Butler, NR, Cenko, SB, Sakamoto, T, Fryer, CL, Ricci, R, Lien, A, Ryan, RE, Korobkin, O, Lee, SK, Burgess, JM, Lee, WH, Watson, AM, Choi, C, Covino, S, D'Avanzo, P, Fontes, CJ, Becerra González, J, Khandrika, HG, Kim, J, Kim, SL, Lee, CU, Lee, HM, Kutyrev, A, Lim, G, Sánchez-Ramírez, R, Veilleux, S, Wieringa, MH, and Yoon, Y
Subjects: astro-ph.HE, General Science & Technology
Abstract: A long-standing paradigm in astrophysics is that collisions-or mergers-of two neutron stars form highly relativistic and collimated outflows (jets) that power γ-ray bursts of short (less than two seconds) duration. The observational support for this model, however, is only indirect. A hitherto outstanding prediction is that gravitational-wave events from such mergers should be associated with γ-ray bursts, and that a majority of these bursts should be seen off-axis, that is, they should point away from Earth. Here we report the discovery observations of the X-ray counterpart associated with the gravitational-wave event GW170817. Although the electromagnetic counterpart at optical and infrared frequencies is dominated by the radioactive glow (known as a kilonova') from freshly synthesized rapid neutron capture (r-process) material in the merger ejecta, observations at X-ray and, later, radio frequencies are consistent with a short γ-ray burst viewed off-axis. Our detection of X-ray emission at a location coincident with the kilonova transient provides the missing observational link between short γ-ray bursts and gravitational waves from neutron-star mergers, and gives independent confirmation of the collimated nature of the γ-ray-burst emission.
Published: 2017

31. Revealing the characteristics of the dark GRB 150309A: Dust extinguished or high-z?

Author: Castro-Tirado, A. J., primary, Gupta, R., additional, Pandey, S. B., additional, Nicuesa Guelbenzu, A., additional, Eikenberry, S., additional, Ackley, K., additional, Gerarts, A., additional, Valeev, A. F., additional, Jeong, S., additional, Park, I. H., additional, Oates, S. R., additional, Zhang, B.-B., additional, Sánchez-Ramírez, R., additional, Martín-Carrillo, A., additional, Tello, J. C., additional, Jelínek, M., additional, Hu, Y.-D., additional, Cunniffe, R., additional, Sokolov, V. V., additional, Guziy, S., additional, Ferrero, P., additional, Caballero-García, M. D., additional, Ror, A. K., additional, Aryan, A., additional, Castro Tirado, M. A., additional, Fernández-García, E., additional, Gritsevich, M., additional, Olivares, I., additional, Pérez-García, I., additional, Castro Cerón, J. M., additional, and Cepa, J., additional
Published: 2024
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32. GRB 110715A: The peculiar multiwavelength evolution of the first afterglow detected by ALMA

Author: Sánchez-Ramírez, R., Hancock, P. J., Jóhannesson, G., Murphy, Tara, Postigo, A. de Ugarte, Gorosabel, J., Kann, D. A., Krühler, T., Oates, S. R., Japelj, J., Thöne, C. C., Lundgren, A., Perley, D. A., Malesani, D., Monsalvo, I. de Gregorio, Castro-Tirado, A. J., D'Elia, V., Fynbo, J. P. U., Garcia-Appadoo, D., Goldoni, P., Greiner, J., Hu, Y. -D., Jelínek, M., Jeong, S., Kamble, A., Klose, S., Kuin, N. P. M., Llorente, A., Martín, S., Guelbenzu, A. Nicuesa, Rossi, A., Schady, P., Sparre, M., Sudilovsky, V., Tello, J. C., Updike, A., Wiersema, K., and Zhang, B. -B.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We present the extensive follow-up campaign on the afterglow of GRB 110715A at 17 different wavelengths, from X-ray to radio bands, starting 81 seconds after the burst and extending up to 74 days later. We performed for the first time a GRB afterglow observation with the ALMA observatory. We find that the afterglow of GRB 110715A is very bright at optical and radio wavelengths. We use optical and near infrared spectroscopy to provide further information about the progenitor's environment and its host galaxy. The spectrum shows weak absorption features at a redshift z = 0.8225, which reveal a host galaxy environment with low ionization, column density and dynamical activity. Late deep imaging shows a very faint galaxy, consistent with the spectroscopic results. The broadband afterglow emission is modelled with synchrotron radiation using a numerical algorithm and we determine the best fit parameters using Bayesian inference in order to constrain the physical parameters of the jet and the medium in which the relativistic shock propagates. We fitted our data with a variety of models, including different density profiles and energy injections. Although the general behaviour can be roughly described by these models, none of them are able to fully explain all data points simultaneously. GRB 110715A shows the complexity of reproducing extensive multi-wavelength broadband afterglow observations, and the need of good sampling in wavelength and time and more complex models to accurately constrain the physics of GRB afterglows., Comment: Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Published: 2016
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33. On the selection of damped Lyman alpha systems using MgII absorption at 2<z<4

Author: Berg, T. A. M., Ellison, S. L., Prochaska, J. X., Sanchez-Ramirez, R., Lopez, S., D'Odorico, V., Becker, G., Christensen, L., Cupani, G., Denney, K., and Worseck, G.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: The XQ-100 survey provides optical and near infrared coverage of 36 blindly selected, intervening damped Lyman alpha systems (DLAs) at 2 < z < 4, simultaneously covering the MgII doublet at 2796A, 2803A, and the Ly-alpha transition. Using the XQ-100 DLA sample, we investigate the completeness of selecting DLA absorbers based on their MgII rest-frame equivalent width (W2796) at these redshifts. Of the 29 DLAs with clean MgII profiles, we find that six (20% of DLAs) have W2796 < 0.6A. The DLA incidence rate of W2796 < 0.6A absorbers is a factor of ~5 higher than what is seen in z~1 samples, indicating a potential evolution in the MgII properties of DLAs with redshift. All of the W2796 < 0.6A DLAs have low metallicities (-2.5 < [M/H] < -1.7), small velocity widths (v90 < 50 km/s), and tend to have relatively low N(HI). We demonstrate that the exclusion of these low W2796 DLAs results in a higher mean N(HI) which in turn leads to a ~7% increase in the cosmological gas density of HI of DLAs at 2 < z < 4; and that this exclusion has a minimal effect on the HI-weighted mean metallicity., Comment: Accepted into MNRAS Letters. 6 pages, 2 figures
Published: 2016
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34. Chemical abundances of damped Lyman alpha systems in the XQ-100 survey

Author: Berg, T. A. M., Ellison, S. L., Sanchez-Ramirez, R., Prochaska, J. X., Lopez, S., D'Odorico, V., Becker, G., Christensen, L., Cupani, G., Denney, K., and Worseck, G.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: The XQ-100 survey has provided high signal-noise spectra of 100 redshift 3-4.5 quasars with the X-Shooter spectrograph. The metal abundances for 13 elements in the 41 damped Lyman alpha systems (DLAs) identified in the XQ-100 sample are presented, and an investigation into abundances of a variety of DLA classes is conducted. The XQ-100 DLA sample contains five DLAs within 5000 km/s of their host quasar (proximate DLAs; PDLAs) as well as three sightlines which contain two DLAs within 10,000 km/s of each other along the same line-of-sight (multiple DLAs; MDLAs). Combined with previous observations in the literature, we demonstrate that PDLAs with logN(HI)<21.0 show lower [S/H] and [Fe/H] (relative to intervening systems with similar redshift and N(HI)), whilst higher [S/H] and [Si/H] are seen in PDLAs with logN(HI)>21.0. These abundance discrepancies are independent of their line-of-sight velocity separation from the host quasar, and the velocity width of the metal lines (v90). Contrary to previous studies, MDLAs show no difference in [alpha/Fe] relative to single DLAs matched in metallicity and redshift. In addition, we present follow-up UVES data of J0034+1639, a sightline containing three DLAs, including a metal-poor DLA with [Fe/H]=-2.82 (the third lowest [Fe/H] in DLAs identified to date) at z=4.25. Lastly we study the dust-corrected [Zn/Fe], emphasizing that near-IR coverage of X-Shooter provides unprecedented access to MgII, CaII and TiII lines (at redshifts 3-4) to provide additional evidence for subsolar [Zn/Fe] ratio in DLAs., Comment: Accepted to MNRAS. 19 pages plus Appendix material (102 pages total)
Published: 2016
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35. XQ-100: A legacy survey of one hundred 3.5 < z < 4.5 quasars observed with VLT/XSHOOTER

Author: Lopez, S., D'Odorico, V., Ellison, S. L., Becker, G. D., Christensen, L., Cupani, G., Denney, K. D., Paris, I., Worseck, G., Berg, T. A. M., Cristiani, S., Dessauges-Zavadsky, M., Haehnelt, M., Hamann, F., Hennawi, J., Irsic, V., Kim, T. -S., Lopez, P., Saust, R. Lund, Menard, B., Perrotta, S., Prochaska, J. X., Sanchez-Ramirez, R., Vestergaard, M., Viel, M., and Wisotzki, L.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
Abstract: We describe the execution and data reduction of the European Southern Observatory Large Programme "Quasars and their absorption lines: a legacy survey of the high-redshift universe with VLT/XSHOOTER" (hereafter `XQ-100'). XQ-100 has produced and made publicly available an homogeneous and high-quality sample of echelle spectra of 100 QSOs at redshifts z~3.5-4.5 observed with full spectral coverage from 315 to 2500 nm at a resolving power ranging from R~4000 to 7000, depending on wavelength. The median signal-to-noise ratios are 33, 25 and 43, as measured at rest-frame wavelengths 1700, 3000 and 3600 Angstrom, respectively. This paper provides future users of XQ-100 data with the basic statistics of the survey, along with details of target selection, data acquisition and data reduction. The paper accompanies the public release of all data products, including 100 reduced spectra. XQ-100 is the largest spectroscopic survey to date of high-redshift QSOs with simultaneous rest-frame UV/optical coverage, and as such enables a wide range of extragalactic research, from cosmology and galaxy evolution to AGN astrophysics., Comment: In press at A&A. Table A.2 updated to match the summary table in the ESO archive
Published: 2016
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36. An achromatic break in the afterglow of the short GRB 140903A: evidence for a narrow jet

Author: Troja, E., Sakamoto, T., Cenko, S. B., Lien, A., Gehrels, N., Castro-Tirado, A. J., Ricci, R., Capone, J., Toy, V., Kutyrev, A., Kawai, N., Cucchiara, A., Fruchter, A., Gorosabel, J., Jeong, S., Levan, A., Perley, D., Sanchez-Ramirez, R., Tanvir, N., and Veilleux, S.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: We report the results of our observing campaign on GRB140903A, a nearby (z=0.351) short duration (T90~0.3 s) gamma-ray burst discovered by Swift. We monitored the X-ray afterglow with Chandra up to 21 days after the burst, and detected a steeper decay of the X-ray flux after approximately 1 day. Continued monitoring at optical and radio wavelengths showed a similar decay in flux at nearly the same time, and we interpret it as evidence of a narrowly collimated jet. By using the standard fireball model to describe the afterglow evolution, we derive a jet opening angle of 5 deg and a collimation-corrected total energy release of 2E50 erg. We further discuss the nature of the GRB progenitor system. Three main lines disfavor a massive star progenitor: the properties of the prompt gamma-ray emission, the age and low star-formation rate of the host galaxy, and the lack of a bright supernova. We conclude that this event was likely originated by a compact binary merger., Comment: 12 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
Published: 2016
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37. Supplement: Localization and broadband follow-up of the gravitational-wave transient GW150914

Author: Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abernathy, M. R., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., Adams, T., Addesso, P., Adhikari, R. X., Adya, V. B., Affeldt, C., Agathos, M., Agatsuma, K., Aggarwal, N., Aguiar, O. D., Aiello, L., Ain, A., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Allocca, A., Altin, P. A., Anderson, S. B., Anderson, W. G., Arai, K., Araya, M. C., Arceneaux, C. C., Areeda, J. S., Arnaud, N., Arun, K. G., Ascenzi, S., Ashton, G., Ast, M., Aston, S. M., Astone, P., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Babak, S., Bacon, P., Bader, M. K. M., Baker, P. T., Baldaccini, F., Ballardin, G., Ballmer, S. W., Barayoga, J. C., Barclay, S. E., Barish, B. C., Barker, D., Barone, F., Barr, B., Barsotti, L., Barsuglia, M., Barta, D., Barthelmy, S., Bartlett, J., Bartos, I., Bassiri, R., Basti, A., Batch, J. C., Baune, C., Bavigadda, V., Bazzan, M., Behnke, B., Bejger, M., Bell, A. S., Bell, C. J., Berger, B. K., Bergman, J., Bergmann, G., Berry, C. P. 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Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract: This Supplement provides supporting material for arXiv:1602.08492 . We briefly summarize past electromagnetic (EM) follow-up efforts as well as the organization and policy of the current EM follow-up program. We compare the four probability sky maps produced for the gravitational-wave transient GW150914, and provide additional details of the EM follow-up observations that were performed in the different bands., Comment: For the main Letter, see arXiv:1602.08492
Published: 2016
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38. Localization and broadband follow-up of the gravitational-wave transient GW150914

Author: Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abernathy, M. R., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., Adams, T., Addesso, P., Adhikari, R. X., Adya, V. B., Affeldt, C., Agathos, M., Agatsuma, K., Aggarwal, N., Aguiar, O. D., Aiello, L., Ain, A., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Allocca, A., Altin, P. A., Anderson, S. B., Anderson, W. G., Arai, K., Araya, M. C., Arceneaux, C. C., Areeda, J. S., Arnaud, N., Arun, K. G., Ascenzi, S., Ashton, G., Ast, M., Aston, S. M., Astone, P., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Babak, S., Bacon, P., Bader, M. K. M., Baker, P. T., Baldaccini, F., Ballardin, G., Ballmer, S. W., Barayoga, J. C., Barclay, S. E., Barish, B. C., Barker, D., Barone, F., Barr, B., Barsotti, L., Barsuglia, M., Barta, D., Barthelmy, S., Bartlett, J., Bartos, I., Bassiri, R., Basti, A., Batch, J. C., Baune, C., Bavigadda, V., Bazzan, M., Behnke, B., Bejger, M., Bell, A. S., Bell, C. J., Berger, B. K., Bergman, J., Bergmann, G., Berry, C. P. L., Bersanetti, D., Bertolini, A., Betzwieser, J., Bhagwat, S., Bhandare, R., Bilenko, I. A., Billingsley, G., Birch, J., Birney, R., Biscans, S., Bisht, A., Bitossi, M., Biwer, C., Bizouard, M. A., Blackburn, J. K., Blair, C. D., Blair, D. G., Blair, R. M., Bloemen, S., Bock, O., Bodiya, T. P., Boer, M., Bogaert, G., Bogan, C., Bohe, A., Bojtos, P., Bond, C., Bondu, F., Bonnand, R., Boom, B. A., Bork, R., Boschi, V., Bose, S., Bouffanais, Y., Bozzi, A., Bradaschia, C., Brady, P. R., Braginsky, V. B., Branchesi, M., Brau, J. E., Briant, T., Brillet, A., Brinkmann, M., Brisson, V., Brockill, P., Brooks, A. F., Brown, D. A., Brown, D. D., Brown, N. M., Buchanan, C. C., Buikema, A., Bulik, T., Bulten, H. J., Buonanno, A., Buskulic, D., Buy, C., Byer, R. L., Cadonati, L., Cagnoli, G., Cahillane, C., Bustillo, J. C., Callister, T., Calloni, E., Camp, J. B., Cannon, K. C., Cao, J., Capano, C. D., Capocasa, E., Carbognani, F., Caride, S., Diaz, J. 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Le, Lyman, J. D., Maguire, K., Mitra, A., Nicholl, M., Razza, A., Terreran, G., Valenti, S., Gal-Yam, A., Ćwiek, A., Ćwiok, M., Mankiewicz, L., Opiela, R., Zaremba, M., Żarnecki, A. F., Onken, C. A., Scalzo, R. A., Schmidt, B. P., Wolf, C., Yuan, F., Evans, P. A., Kennea, J. A., Burrows, D. N., Campana, S., Cenko, S. B., Marshall, F. E., Nousek, J., O'Brien, P., Osborne, J. P., Palmer, D., Perri, M., Siegel, M., Tagliaferri, G., Klotz, A., Turpin, D., Laugier, R., Beroiz, M., Peñuela, T., Macri, L. M., Oelkers, R. J., Lambas, D. G., Vrech, R., Cabral, J., Colazo, C., Dominguez, M., Sanchez, B., Gurovich, S., Lares, M., Marshall, J. L., DePoy, D. L., Padilla, N., Pereyra, N. A., Benacquista, M., Tanvir, N. R., Wiersema, K., Levan, A. J., Steeghs, D., Hjorth, J., Fynbo, J. P. U., Malesani, D., Milvang-Jensen, B., Watson, D., Irwin, M., Fernandez, C. G., McMahon, R. G., Banerji, M., Gonzalez-Solares, E., Schulze, S., Postigo, A. de U., Thoene, C. C., Cano, Z., and Rosswog, S.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract: A gravitational-wave (GW) transient was identified in data recorded by the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) detectors on 2015 September 14. The event, initially designated G184098 and later given the name GW150914, is described in detail elsewhere. By prior arrangement, preliminary estimates of the time, significance, and sky location of the event were shared with 63 teams of observers covering radio, optical, near-infrared, X-ray, and gamma-ray wavelengths with ground- and space-based facilities. In this Letter we describe the low-latency analysis of the GW data and present the sky localization of the first observed compact binary merger. We summarize the follow-up observations reported by 25 teams via private Gamma-ray Coordinates Network circulars, giving an overview of the participating facilities, the GW sky localization coverage, the timeline and depth of the observations. As this event turned out to be a binary black hole merger, there is little expectation of a detectable electromagnetic (EM) signature. Nevertheless, this first broadband campaign to search for a counterpart of an Advanced LIGO source represents a milestone and highlights the broad capabilities of the transient astronomy community and the observing strategies that have been developed to pursue neutron star binary merger events. Detailed investigations of the EM data and results of the EM follow-up campaign are being disseminated in papers by the individual teams., Comment: For Supplement, see https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.07864
Published: 2016
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39. The evolution of neutral gas in damped Lyman $\alpha$ systems from the XQ-100 survey

Author: Sánchez-Ramírez, R., Ellison, S. L., Prochaska, J. X., Berg, T. A. M., López, S., D'Odorico, V., Becker, G. D., Christensen, L., Cupani, G., Denney, K. D., Pâris, I., Worseck, G., and Gorosabel, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
Abstract: We present a sample of 38 intervening Damped Lyman $\alpha$ (DLA) systems identified towards 100 $z>3.5$ quasars, observed during the XQ-100 survey. The XQ-100 DLA sample is combined with major DLA surveys in the literature. The final combined sample consists of 742 DLAs over a redshift range approximately $1.6 < z_{\rm abs} < 5.0$. We develop a novel technique for computing $\Omega_{\rm HI}^{\rm DLA}$ as a continuous function of redshift, and we thoroughly assess and quantify the sources of error therein, including fitting errors and incomplete sampling of the high column density end of the column density distribution function. There is a statistically significant redshift evolution in $\Omega_{\rm HI}^{\rm DLA}$ ($\geq 3 \sigma$) from $z \sim 2$ to $z \sim$ 5. In order to make a complete assessment of the redshift evolution of $\Omega_{\rm HI}$, we combine our high redshift DLA sample with absorption surveys at intermediate redshift and 21cm emission line surveys of the local universe. Although $\Omega_{\rm HI}^{\rm DLA}$, and hence its redshift evolution, remains uncertain in the intermediate redshift regime ($0.1 < z_{\rm abs} < 1.6$), we find that the combination of high redshift data with 21cm surveys of the local universe all yield a statistically significant evolution in $\Omega_{\rm HI}$ from $z \sim 0$ to $z \sim 5$ ($\geq 3 \sigma$). Despite its statistical significance, the magnitude of the evolution is small: a linear regression fit between $\Omega_{\rm HI}$ and $z$ yields a typical slope of $\sim$0.17$\times 10^{-3}$, corresponding to a factor of $\sim$ 4 decrease in $\Omega_{\rm HI}$ between $z=5$ and $z=0$., Comment: Submitted to MNRAS, this version follows the referee's report and minor revisions. Large tables are included in the source file tarball
Published: 2015
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40. Limits on optical polarization during the prompt phase of GRB 140430A

Author: Kopac, D., Mundell, C. G., Japelj, J., Arnold, D. M., Steele, I. A., Guidorzi, C., Dichiara, S., Kobayashi, S., Gomboc, A., Harrison, R. M., Lamb, G. P., Melandri, A., Smith, R. J., Virgili, F. J., Castro-Tirado, A. J., Gorosabel, J., Jarvinen, A., Sanchez-Ramirez, R., Oates, S. R., and Jelinek, M.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: Gamma-ray burst GRB 140430A was detected by the Swift satellite and observed promptly with the imaging polarimeter RINGO3 mounted on the Liverpool Telescope, with observations beginning while the prompt $\gamma$-ray emission was still ongoing. In this paper, we present densely sampled (10-second temporal resolution) early optical light curves in 3 optical bands and limits to the degree of optical polarization. We compare optical, X-ray and gamma-ray properties and present an analysis of the optical emission during a period of high-energy flaring. The complex optical light curve cannot be explained merely with a combination of forward and reverse shock emission from a standard external shock, implying additional contribution of emission from internal shock dissipation. We estimate an upper limit for time averaged optical polarization during the prompt phase to be as low as P < 12% (1$\sigma$). This suggests that the optical flares and early afterglow emission in this GRB are not highly polarized. Alternatively, time averaging could mask the presence of otherwise polarized components of distinct origin at different polarization position angles., Comment: 13 pages, 8 figures, 4 tables. Accepted for publication in ApJ
Published: 2015
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41. The Spanish Square Kilometre Array White Book

Author: Acosta-Pulido, J. A., Agudo, I., Alberdi, A., Alcolea, J., Alfaro, E. J., Alonso-Herrero, A., Anglada, G., Arnalte-Mur, P., Ascasibar, Y., Ascaso, B., Azulay, R., Bachiller, R., Baez-Rubio, A., Battaner, E., Blasco, J., Brook, C. B., Bujarrabal, V., Busquet, G., Caballero-Garcia, M. D., Carrasco-Gonzalez, C., Casares, J., Castro-Tirado, A. J., Colina, L., Colomer, F., de Gregorio-Monsalvo, I., del Olmo, A., Desmurs, J. -F., Diego, J. M., Dominguez-Tenreiro, R., Estalella, R., Fernandez-Soto, A., Florido, E., Font, J., Font, J. A., Fuente, A., Garcia-Benito, R., Garcia-Burillo, S., Garcia-Lorenzo, B., de Paz, A. Gil, Girart, J. M., Goicoechea, J. R., Gomez, J. F., Gonzalez-Garcia, M., Gonzalez-Martin, O., Gonzalez-Serrano, J. I., Gorgas, J., Gorosabel, J., Guijarro, A., Guirado, J. C., Hernandez-Garcia, L., Hernandez-Monteagudo, C., Herranz, D., Herrero-Illana, R., Hu, Y. -D., Huelamo, N., Huertas-Company, M., Iglesias-Paramo, J., Jeong, S., Jimenez-Serra, I., Knapen, J. H., Lineros, R. A., Lisenfeld, U., Marcaide, J. M., Marquez, I., Marti, J., Marti, J. M., Marti-Vidal, I., Martinez-Gonzalez, E., Martin-Pintado, J., Masegosa, J., Mayen-Gijon, J. M., Mezcua, M., Migliari, S., Mimica, P., Moldon, J., Morata, O., Negueruela, I., Oates, S. R., Osorio, M., Palau, A., Paredes, J. M., Perea, J., Perez-Gonzalez, P. G., Perez-Montero, E., Perez-Torres, M. A., Perucho, M., Planelles, S., Pons, J. A., Prieto, A., Quilis, V., Ramirez-Moreta, P., Almeida, C. Ramos, Rea, N., Ribo, M., Rioja, M. J., Espinosa, J. M. Rodriguez, Ros, E., Rubiño-Martin, J. A., Ruiz-Granados, B., Sabater, J., Sanchez, S., Sanchez-Contreras, C., Sanchez-Monge, A., Sanchez-Ramirez, R., Sintes, A. M., Solanes, J. M., Sopuerta, C. F., Tafalla, M., Tello, J. C., Tercero, B., Toribio, M. C., Torrelles, J. M., Torres, M. A. P., Usero, A., Verdes-Montenegro, L., Vidal-Garcia, A., Vielva, P., Vilchez, J., and Zhang, B. -B.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract: The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is called to revolutionise essentially all areas of Astrophysics. With a collecting area of about a square kilometre, the SKA will be a transformational instrument, and its scientific potential will go beyond the interests of astronomers. Its technological challenges and huge cost requires a multinational effort, and Europe has recognised this by putting the SKA on the roadmap of the European Strategy Forum for Research Infrastructures (ESFRI). The Spanish SKA White Book is the result of the coordinated effort of 120 astronomers from 40 different research centers. The book shows the enormous scientific interest of the Spanish astronomical community in the SKA and warrants an optimum scientific exploitation of the SKA by Spanish researchers, if Spain enters the SKA project., Comment: Editors: Miguel A. Perez-Torres (Editor-in-chief), L. Verdes-Montenegro, J. C. Guirado, A. Alberdi, J. Martin-Pintado, R. Bachiller, D. Herranz, J. M. Girart, J. Gorgas, C. Hernandez-Monteagudo, S. Migliari and J. M. Rodriguez Espinosa; 289 pages, published in June 2015 by Sociedad Espa\~nola de Astronom\'ia
Published: 2015

42. The high-redshift gamma-ray burst GRB140515A

Author: Melandri, A., Bernardini, M. G., D'Avanzo, P., Sanchez-Ramirez, R., Nappo, F., Nava, L., Japelj, J., Postigo, A. de Ugarte, Oates, S., Campana, S., Covino, S., D'Elia, V., Ghirlanda, G., Gafton, E., Ghisellini, G., Gnedin, N., Goldoni, P., Gorosabel, J., Libbrecht, T., Malesani, D., Salvaterra, R., Thone, C. C., Vergani, S. D., Xu, D., and Tagliaferri, G.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
Abstract: High-redshift gamma-ray bursts have several advantages for the study of the distant universe, providing unique information about the structure and properties of the galaxies in which they exploded. Spectroscopic identification with large ground-based telescopes has improved our knowledge of the class of such distant events. We present the multi-wavelength analysis of the high-$z$ Swift gamma-ray burst GRB140515A ($z = 6.327$). The best estimate of the neutral hydrogen fraction of the intergalactic medium (IGM) towards the burst is $x_{HI} \leq 0.002$. The spectral absorption lines detected for this event are the weakest lines ever observed in gamma-ray burst afterglows, suggesting that GRB140515A exploded in a very low density environment. Its circum-burst medium is characterised by an average extinction (A$_{\rm V} \sim 0.1$) that seems to be typical of $z \ge 6$ events. The observed multi-band light curves are explained either with a very flat injected spectrum ($p = 1.7$) or with a multi-component emission ($p = 2.1$). In the second case a long-lasting central engine activity is needed in order to explain the late time X-ray emission. The possible origin of GRB140515A from a Pop III (or from a Pop II stars with local environment enriched by Pop III) massive star is unlikely., Comment: 10 pages, 8 figures, 5 tables, submitted to Astronomy & Astrophysics
Published: 2015
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43. GRB hosts through cosmic time - VLT/X-Shooter emission-line spectroscopy of 96 GRB-selected galaxies at 0.1 < z < 3.6

Author: Krühler, T., Malesani, D., Fynbo, J. P. U., Hartoog, O. E., Hjorth, J., Jakobsson, P., Perley, D. A., Rossi, A., Schady, P., Schulze, S., Tanvir, N. R., Vergani, S. D., Wiersema, K., Afonso, P. M. J., Bolmer, J., Cano, Z., Covino, S., D'Elia, V., Postigo, A. de Ugarte, Filgas, R., Friis, M., Graham, J. F., Greiner, J., Goldoni, P., Gomboc, A., Hammer, F., Japelj, J., Kann, D. A., Kaper, L., Klose, S., Levan, A. J., Leloudas, G., Milvang-Jensen, B., Guelbenzu, A. Nicuesa, Palazzi, E., Pian, E., Piranomonte, S., Sanchez-Ramirez, R., Savaglio, S., Selsing, J., Tagliaferri, G., Vreeswijk, P. M., Watson, D. J., and Xu, D.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: [Abridged] We present data and initial results from VLT/X-Shooter emission-line spectroscopy of 96 GRB-selected galaxies at 0.1
Published: 2015
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44. GRB 140606B / iPTF14bfu: Detection of shock-breakout emission from a cosmological gamma-ray burst?

Author: Cano, Z., Postigo, A. de Ugarte, Perley, D., Kruhler, T., Margutti, R., Friis, M., Malesani, D., Jakobsson, P., Fynbo, J. P. U., Gorosabel, J., Hjorth, J., Sanchez-Ramirez, R., Schulze, S., Tanvir, N. R., Thone, C. C., and Xu, D.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Abstract: We present optical and near-infrared photometry of GRB~140606B ($z=0.384$), and optical photometry and spectroscopy of its associated supernova (SN). The results of our modelling indicate that the bolometric properties of the SN ($M_{\rm Ni} = 0.4\pm0.2$~M$_{\odot}$, $M_{\rm ej} = 5\pm2$~M$_{\odot}$, and $E_{\rm K} = 2\pm1 \times 10^{52}$ erg) are fully consistent with the statistical averages determined for other GRB-SNe. However, in terms of its $\gamma$-ray emission, GRB~140606B is an outlier of the Amati relation, and occupies the same region as low-luminosity ($ll$) and short GRBs. The $\gamma$-ray emission in $ll$GRBs is thought to arise in some or all events from a shock-breakout (SBO), rather than from a jet. The measured peak photon energy ($E_{\rm p}\approx800$ keV) is close to that expected for $\gamma$-rays created by a SBO ($\gtrsim1$ MeV). Moreover, based on its position in the $M_{V,\rm p}$--$L_{\rm iso,\gamma}$~plane and the $E_{\rm K}$--$\Gamma\beta$~plane, GRB~140606B has properties similar to both SBO-GRBs and jetted-GRBs. Additionally, we searched for correlations between the isotropic $\gamma$-ray emission and the bolometric properties of a sample of GRB-SNe, finding that no statistically significant correlation is present. The average kinetic energy of the sample is $\bar{E}_{\rm K} = 2.1\times10^{52}$ erg. All of the GRB-SNe in our sample, with the exception of SN 2006aj, are within this range, which has implications for the total energy budget available to power both the relativistic and non-relativistic components in a GRB-SN event., Comment: Pre-print version: 14 Figs, 9 Tables, accepted at MNRAS. Comments and discussion are welcomed
Published: 2015
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45. Spectrophotometric analysis of GRB afterglow extinction curves with X-shooter

Author: Japelj, J., Covino, S., Gomboc, A., Vergani, S. D., Goldoni, P., Selsing, J., Cano, Z., D'Elia, V., Flores, H., Fynbo, J. P. U., Hammer, F., Hjorth, J., Jakobsson, P., Kaper, L., Kopač, D., Krühler, T., Melandri, A., Piranomonte, S., Sánchez-Ramírez, R., Tagliaferri, G., Tanvir, N. R., Postigo, A. de Ugarte, Watson, D., and Wijers, R. A. M. J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: In this work we use gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglow spectra observed with the VLT/X-shooter spectrograph to measure rest-frame extinction in GRB lines-of-sight by modeling the broadband near-infrared (NIR) to X-ray afterglow spectral energy distributions (SEDs). Our sample consists of nine Swift GRBs, eight of them belonging to the long-duration and one to the short-duration class. Dust is modeled using the average extinction curves of the Milky Way and the two Magellanic Clouds. We derive the rest-frame extinction of the entire sample, which fall in the range $0 \lesssim {\it A}_{\rm V} \lesssim 1.2$. Moreover, the SMC extinction curve is the preferred extinction curve template for the majority of our sample, a result which is in agreement with those commonly observed in GRB lines-of-sights. In one analysed case (GRB 120119A), the common extinction curve templates fail to reproduce the observed extinction. To illustrate the advantage of using the high-quality X-shooter afterglow SEDs over the photometric SEDs, we repeat the modeling using the broadband SEDs with the NIR-to-UV photometric measurements instead of the spectra. The main result is that the spectroscopic data, thanks to a combination of excellent resolution and coverage of the blue part of the SED, are more successful in constraining the extinction curves and therefore the dust properties in GRB hosts with respect to photometric measurements. In all cases but one the extinction curve of one template is preferred over the others. We show that the modeled values of the extinction and the spectral slope, obtained through spectroscopic and photometric SED analysis, can differ significantly for individual events. Finally we stress that, regardless of the resolution of the optical-to-NIR data, the SED modeling gives reliable results only when the fit is performed on a SED covering a broader spectral region., Comment: 17 pages, 7 figures, 4 tables, accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Published: 2015
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46. Optical follow-up of the neutron star–black hole mergers S200105ae and S200115j

Author: Anand, Shreya, Coughlin, Michael W., Kasliwal, Mansi M., Bulla, Mattia, Ahumada, Tomás, Sagués Carracedo, Ana, Almualla, Mouza, Andreoni, Igor, Stein, Robert, Foucart, Francois, Singer, Leo P., Sollerman, Jesper, Bellm, Eric C., Bolin, Bryce, Caballero-García, M. D., Castro-Tirado, Alberto J., Cenko, S. Bradley, De, Kishalay, Dekany, Richard G., Duev, Dmitry A., Feeney, Michael, Fremling, Christoffer, Goldstein, Daniel A., Golkhou, V. Zach, Graham, Matthew J., Guessoum, Nidhal, Hankins, Matthew J., Hu, Youdong, Kong, Albert K. H., Kool, Erik C., Kulkarni, S. R., Kumar, Harsh, Laher, Russ R., Masci, Frank J., Mróz, Przemek, Nissanke, Samaya, Porter, Michael, Reusch, Simeon, Riddle, Reed, Rosnet, Philippe, Rusholme, Ben, Serabyn, Eugene, Sánchez-Ramírez, R., Rigault, Mickael, Shupe, David L., Smith, Roger, Soumagnac, Maayane T., Walters, Richard, and Valeev, Azamat F.
Published: 2021
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47. A Trio of GRB-SNe: GRB 120729A, GRB 130215A / SN 2013ez and GRB 130831A / SN 2013fu

Author: Cano, Z., Postigo, A. de Ugarte, Pozanenko, A., Butler, N., Thone, C. C., Guidorzi, C., Kruhler, T., Gorosabel, J., Jakobsson, P., Leloudas, G., Malesani, D., Hjorth, J., Melandri, A., Mundell, C., Wiersema, K., D'Avanzo, P., Schulze, S., Gomboc, A., Johansson, A., Zheng, W., Kann, D. A., Knust, F., Varela, K., Akerlof, C. W., Bloom, J., Burkhonov, O., Cooke, E., de Diego, J. A., Dhungana, G., Farina, C., Ferrante, F. V., Flewelling, H. A., Fox, O. D., Fynbo, J., Gehrels, N., Georgiev, L., Gonzalez, J. J., Greiner, J., Guver, T., Hartoog, O., Hatch, N., Jelinek, M, Kehoe, R., Klose, S., Klunko, E., Kopac, D., Kutyrev, A., Krugl, Y., Lee, W. H., Levan, A., Linkov, V., Matkin, A., Minikulov, N., Molotov, I., Prochaska, J. Xavier, Richer, M. G., Roman-Zuniga, C. G., Rumyantsev, V., Sanchez-Ramirez, R., Steele, I., Tanvir, N. R., Volnova, A., Watson, A. M., Xu, D., and Yuan, F.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: 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 spectroscopy at t-t0=16.1 d, which covers rest-frame 3000-6250 Angstroms. Based on Fe II (5169) and Si (II) (6355), our spectrum indicates an unusually low expansion velocity of 4000-6350 km/s, the lowest ever measured for a GRB-SN. Additionally, we determined the brightness and shape of each accompanying SN relative to a template supernova (SN 1998bw), which were used to estimate the amount of nickel produced via nucleosynthesis during each explosion. We find that our derived nickel masses are typical of other GRB-SNe, and greater than those of SNe Ibc that are not associated with GRBs. For GRB 130831A / SN 2013fu, we use our well-sampled R-band light curve (LC) to estimate the amount of ejecta mass and the kinetic energy of the SN, finding that these too are similar to other GRB-SNe. For GRB 130215A, we take advantage of contemporaneous optical/NIR observations to construct an optical/NIR bolometric LC of the afterglow. We fit the bolometric LC with the millisecond magnetar model of Zhang & Meszaros (2001), which considers dipole radiation as a source of energy injection to the forward shock powering the optical/NIR afterglow. Using this model we derive an initial spin period of P=12 ms and a magnetic field of B=1.1 x 10^15 G, which are commensurate with those found for proposed magnetar central engines of other long-duration GRBs., Comment: Archive copy - 24 pages, 12 Figures, 3 Tables. Submitted to A&A
Published: 2014
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48. The dark nature of GRB 130528A and its host galaxy

Author: Jeong, S., Castro-Tirado, A. J., Bremer, M., Winters, J. M., Gorosabel, J., Guziy, S., Pandey, S. B., Jelínek, M., Sánchez-Ramírez, R., Sokolov, Ilya V., Orekhova, N. V., Moskvitin, A. S., Tello, J. C., Cunniffe, R., Lara-Gil, O., Oates, S. R., Pérez-Ramírez, D., Bai, J., Fan, Y., Wang, C., and Park, I. H.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: We study the dark nature of GRB 130528A through multi-wavelength observations and conclude that the main reason for the optical darkness is local extinction inside of the host galaxy. Automatic observations were performed at BOOTES-4/MET robotic telescope. We also triggered target of opportunity (ToO) observation at the OSN, IRAM PdBI and the GTC+OSIRIS. The host galaxy photometric observations in optical to near-infrared (nIR) wavelengths were achieved through large ground-based aperture telescopes, such as the 10.4m GTC, the 4.2m WHT, 6m BTA, and the 2m LT. Based on these observations, spectral energy distributions (SED) for the host galaxy and afterglow were constructed. Thanks to mm observations at PdBI, we confirm the presence of a mm source within the XRT error circle that faded over the course of our observations and identify the host galaxy. However, we do not find any credible optical source within early observations with BOOTES-4/MET and 1.5m OSN telescopes. Spectroscopic observation of this galaxy by GTC showed a single faint emission line that likely corresponds to [OII] 3727\{AA} at a redshift of 1.250+/-0.001 implying a SFR(M_sun/yr) > 6.18 M_sun/yr without correcting for dust extinction. The probable extinction was revealed through analysis of the afterglow SED, resulting in a value of AV >= ~ 0.9 at the rest frame, this is comparable to extinction levels found among other dark GRBs. The SED of the host galaxy is explained well (chi2/d.o.f.=0.564) by a luminous (MB=-21.16), low-extinction (AV =0, rest frame), and aged (2.6 Gyr) stellar population. We can explain this apparent contradiction in global and line-of-sight extinction if the GRB birth place happened to lie in a local dense environment. In light of having relatively small specific SFR (SSFR) ~ 5.3 M_sun/yr (L/L_star)-1, this also could explain the age of the old stellar population of host galaxy., Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures
Published: 2014
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49. GRB 130925A: an ultra-long Gamma Ray Burst with a dust-echo afterglow, and implications for the origin of the ultra-long GRBs

Author: Evans, P. A., Willingale, R., Osborne, J. P., O'Brien, P. T., Tanvir, N. R., Frederiks, D. D., Pal'shin, V. D., Svinkin, D. S., Lien, A., Cummings, J., Xiong, S., Zhang, B. -B., Götz, D., Savchenko, V., Negoro, Hitoshi, Nakahira, Satoshi, Suzuki, Kazuhiko, Wiersema, K., Starling, R. L. C., Castro-Tirado, A. J., Beardmore, A. P., Sánchez-Ramírez, R., Gorosabel, J., Jeong, S., Kennea, J. A., Burrows, D. N., and Gehrels, N.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: GRB 130925A was an unusual GRB, consisting of 3 distinct episodes of high-energy emission spanning $\sim$20 ks, making it a member of the proposed category of `ultra-long' bursts. It was also unusual in that its late-time X-ray emission observed by Swift was very soft, and showed a strong hard-to-soft spectral evolution with time. This evolution, rarely seen in GRB afterglows, can be well modelled as the dust-scattered echo of the prompt emission, with stringent limits on the contribution from the normal afterglow (i.e. external shock) emission. We consider and reject the possibility that GRB 130925A was some form of tidal disruption event, and instead show that if the circumburst density around GRB 130925A is low, the long duration of the burst and faint external shock emission are naturally explained. Indeed, we suggest that the ultra-long GRBs as a class can be explained as those with low circumburst densities, such that the deceleration time (at which point the material ejected from the nascent black hole is decelerated by the circumburst medium) is $\sim$20 ks, as opposed to a few hundred seconds for the normal long GRBs. The increased deceleration radius means that more of the ejected shells can interact before reaching the external shock, naturally explaining both the increased duration of GRB 130925A, the duration of its prompt pulses, and the fainter-than-normal afterglow., Comment: 20 pages, 15 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Published: 2014
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50. GRB 120422A/SN 2012bz: Bridging the Gap between Low- And High-Luminosity GRBs

Author: Schulze, S., Malesani, D., Cucchiara, A., Tanvir, N. R., Krühler, T., Postigo, A. de Ugarte, Leloudas, G., Lyman, J., Bersier, D., Wiersema, K., Perley, D. A., Schady, P., Gorosabel, J., Anderson, J. P., Castro-Tirado, A. J., Cenko, S. B., De Cia, A., Ellerbroek, L. E., Fynbo, J. P. U., Greiner, J., Hjorth, J., Kann, D. A., Kaper, L., Klose, S., Levan, A. J., Martín, S., O'Brien, P. T., Page, K. L., Pignata, G., Rapaport, S., Sánchez-Ramírez, R., Sollerman, J., Smith, I. A., Sparre, M., Thöne, C. C., Watson, D. J., Xu, D., Bauer, F. E., Bayliss, M., Björnsson, G., Bremer, M., Cano, Z., Covino, S., D'Elia, V., Frail, D. A., Geier, S., Goldoni, P., Hartoog, O. E., Jakobsson, P., Korhonen, H., Lee, K. Y., Milvang-Jensen, B., Nardini, M., Guelbenzu, A. Nicuesa, Oguri, M., Pandey, S. B., Petitpas, G., Rossi, A., Sandberg, A., Schmidl, S., Tagliaferri, G., Tilanus, R. P. J., Winters, J. M., Wright, D., and Wuyts, E.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: At low redshift, a handful of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have been discovered with peak luminosities ($L_{\rm iso} < 10^{48.5}~\rm{erg\,s}^{-1}$) substantially lower than the average of the more distant ones ($L_{\rm iso} > 10^{49.5}~\rm{erg\,s}^{-1}$). The properties of several low-luminosity (low-$L$) GRBs indicate that they can be due to shock break-out, as opposed to the emission from ultrarelativistic jets. Owing to this, it is highly debated how both populations are connected, and whether there is a continuum between them. The burst at redshift $z=0.283$ from 2012 April 22 is one of the very few examples of intermediate-$L$ GRBs with a $\gamma$-ray luminosity of $L\sim10^{48.9}~\rm{erg\,s}^{-1}$ that have been detected up to now. Together with the robust detection of its accompanying supernova SN 2012bz, it has the potential to answer important questions on the origin of low- and high-$L$ GRBs and the GRB-SN connection. We carried out a spectroscopy campaign using medium- and low-resolution spectrographs at 6--10-m class telescopes, covering the time span of 37.3 days, and a multi-wavelength imaging campaign from radio to X-ray energies over a duration of $\sim270$ days. Furthermore, we used a tuneable filter centred at H$\alpha$ to map star formation in the host galaxy and the surrounding galaxies. We used these data to extract and model the properties of different radiation components and incorporate spectral-energy-distribution fitting techniques to extract the properties of the host galaxy. Modelling the light curve and spectral energy distribution from the radio to the X-rays revealed the blast-wave to expand with an initial Lorentz factor of $\Gamma_0\sim60$, low for a high-$L$ GRB, and that the afterglow had an exceptional low peak luminosity-density of $\lesssim2\times10^{30}~\rm{erg\,s}^{-1}\,\rm{Hz}^{-1}$ in the sub-mm. [Abridged], Comment: 30 pages, 17 figures, 9 tables; abstract is abridged; images are shown at reduced resolution; comments are welcome
Published: 2014
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