AN INDEPENDENT MEASUREMENT OF THE INCIDENCE OF Mg II ABSORBERS ALONG GAMMA-RAY BURST SIGHT LINES: THE END OF THE MYSTERY?

AN INDEPENDENT MEASUREMENT OF THE INCIDENCE OF Mg II ABSORBERS ALONG GAMMA-RAY BURST SIGHT LINES: THE END OF THE MYSTERY?

In 2006, Prochter et al. reported a statistically significant enhancement of very strong Mg II absorption systems intervening the sight lines to gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) relative to the incidence of such absorption along quasar sight lines. This counterintuitive result has inspired a diverse set of a...

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Main Authors: Cucchiara, A., Prochaska, J. X., Zhu, G., Menard, Brice, Fynbo, J. P. U., Fox, Derek B., Chen, H.-W., Cooksey, Kathy, Cenko, S. Bradley, Perley, D., Bloom, Joshua S., Berger, E., Tanvir, N. R., D'Elia, V., Lopez, S., Chornock, R., de Jaeger, T.
Other Authors: MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Institute of Physics/American Astronomical Society 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/93911

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