Year: 2002
Type: article
Abstract: We present interplanetary network localization, spectral, and time history information for four short-duration, hard spectrum gamma-ray bursts, GRB 000607, GRB 001025B, GRB 001204, and GRB 010119. All of these events were followed up with sensitive radio and optical observations (the first and only such bursts to be followed up in the radio to date), but no detections were made, demonstrating that the short bursts do not have anomalously intense afterglows. We discuss the upper limits and show that the lack of observable counterparts is consistent with both the hypothesis that the afterglow behavior of the short bursts is like that of the long-duration bursts, many of which similarly have no detectable afterglows, as well as the hypothesis that the short bursts have no detectable afterglows at all. Small number statistics do not allow a clear choice between these alternatives, but given the present detection rates of various missions, we show that progress can be expected in the near future.
Source: The Astrophysical Journal
DOI: 10.1086/338420
Authors: K. Hurley, E. Berger, A. Castro‐Tirado, J. M. Castro Ceron, T. Cline, M. Feroci, D. A. Frail, F. Frontera, N. Masetti, C. Guidorzi, E. Montanari, D. H. Hartmann, A. Henden, S. E. Levine, E. Mazets, S. Golenetskii, D. Frederiks, G. Morrison, A. Oksanen, M. Moilanen, H.‐S. Park, P. A. Price, J. Prochaska, J. Trombka, G. Williams
Institutions: Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, California Institute of Technology, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, Royal Institute and Observatory of the Spanish Navy, Goddard Space Flight Center, Institute for Space Astrophysics and Planetology, National Radio Astronomy Observatory, University of Ferrara, Clemson University, Universities Space Research Association, United States Naval Observatory, U.S. Naval Observatory Flagstaff Station, Ioffe Institute, Infrared Processing and Analysis Center, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Mount Stromlo Observatory, Carnegie Observatories, University of Arizona
Language: English
Subfield: Astronomy and Astrophysics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2064311450