GRB 090426: the environment of a rest-frame 0.35-s gamma-ray burst at a redshift of 2.609
We present the discovery of an absorption-line redshift of z = 2.609 for GRB 090426, establishing the first firm lower limit to a redshift for a gamma-ray burst (GRB) with an observed duration of <2 s. With a rest-frame burst duration of T90z = 0.35 s and a detailed examination of the peak en...
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| author | Levesque, E Bloom, J Butler, N Perley, D Cenko, S Prochaska, J Kewley, L Bunker, A Chen, H Chornock, R Filippenko, A Glazebrook, K Lopez, S Masiero, J Modjaz, M Morgan, A Poznanski, D |
| author_facet | Levesque, E Bloom, J Butler, N Perley, D Cenko, S Prochaska, J Kewley, L Bunker, A Chen, H Chornock, R Filippenko, A Glazebrook, K Lopez, S Masiero, J Modjaz, M Morgan, A Poznanski, D |
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| description | We present the discovery of an absorption-line redshift of z = 2.609 for GRB 090426, establishing the first firm lower limit to a redshift for a gamma-ray burst (GRB) with an observed duration of <2 s. With a rest-frame burst duration of T90z = 0.35 s and a detailed examination of the peak energy of the event, we suggest that this is likely (at >90 per cent confidence) a member of the short/hard phenomenological class of GRBs. From analysis of the optical-afterglow spectrum we find that the burst originated along a very low H i column density sightline, with NH i < 3.2 × 1019 cm-2. Our GRB 090426 afterglow spectrum also appears to have weaker low-ionization absorption (Si ii, C ii) than ∼95 per cent of previous afterglow spectra. Finally, we also report the discovery of a blue, very luminous, star-forming putative host galaxy (∼2L *) at a small angular offset from the location of the optical afterglow. We consider the implications of this unique GRB in the context of burst duration classification and our understanding of GRB progenitor scenarios. © 2009 RAS. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:ffb4c9e0-e757-49a9-bd9e-f236e36dd1db2022-03-27T13:47:00ZGRB 090426: the environment of a rest-frame 0.35-s gamma-ray burst at a redshift of 2.609Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:ffb4c9e0-e757-49a9-bd9e-f236e36dd1dbEnglishSymplectic Elements at Oxford2010Levesque, EBloom, JButler, NPerley, DCenko, SProchaska, JKewley, LBunker, AChen, HChornock, RFilippenko, AGlazebrook, KLopez, SMasiero, JModjaz, MMorgan, APoznanski, DWe present the discovery of an absorption-line redshift of z = 2.609 for GRB 090426, establishing the first firm lower limit to a redshift for a gamma-ray burst (GRB) with an observed duration of <2 s. With a rest-frame burst duration of T90z = 0.35 s and a detailed examination of the peak energy of the event, we suggest that this is likely (at >90 per cent confidence) a member of the short/hard phenomenological class of GRBs. From analysis of the optical-afterglow spectrum we find that the burst originated along a very low H i column density sightline, with NH i < 3.2 × 1019 cm-2. Our GRB 090426 afterglow spectrum also appears to have weaker low-ionization absorption (Si ii, C ii) than ∼95 per cent of previous afterglow spectra. Finally, we also report the discovery of a blue, very luminous, star-forming putative host galaxy (∼2L *) at a small angular offset from the location of the optical afterglow. We consider the implications of this unique GRB in the context of burst duration classification and our understanding of GRB progenitor scenarios. © 2009 RAS. |
| spellingShingle | Levesque, E Bloom, J Butler, N Perley, D Cenko, S Prochaska, J Kewley, L Bunker, A Chen, H Chornock, R Filippenko, A Glazebrook, K Lopez, S Masiero, J Modjaz, M Morgan, A Poznanski, D GRB 090426: the environment of a rest-frame 0.35-s gamma-ray burst at a redshift of 2.609 |
| title | GRB 090426: the environment of a rest-frame 0.35-s gamma-ray burst at a redshift of 2.609 |
| title_full | GRB 090426: the environment of a rest-frame 0.35-s gamma-ray burst at a redshift of 2.609 |
| title_fullStr | GRB 090426: the environment of a rest-frame 0.35-s gamma-ray burst at a redshift of 2.609 |
| title_full_unstemmed | GRB 090426: the environment of a rest-frame 0.35-s gamma-ray burst at a redshift of 2.609 |
| title_short | GRB 090426: the environment of a rest-frame 0.35-s gamma-ray burst at a redshift of 2.609 |
| title_sort | grb 090426 the environment of a rest frame 0 35 s gamma ray burst at a redshift of 2 609 |
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