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    Gamma-ray burst afterglows as probes of environment and blast wave physics. I. Absorption by host-galaxy gas and dust

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    Authors
    Starling, R.
    Wijers, R.
    Wiersema, K.
    Rol, E.
    Curran, Peter
    Kouveliotou, C.
    van der Horst, A.
    Heemskerk, M.
    Date
    2007
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Starling, R. and Wijers, R. and Wiersema, K. and Rol, E. and Curran, P. and Kouveliotou, C. and van der Horst, A. et al. 2007. Gamma-ray burst afterglows as probes of environment and blast wave physics. I. Absorption by host-galaxy gas and dust. The Astrophysical Journal. 661: pp. 787-800.
    Source Title
    The Astrophysical Journal
    DOI
    10.1086/511953
    Additional URLs
    http://iopscience.iop.org/0004-637X/661/2/787/pdf/0004-637X_661_2_787.pdf
    ISSN
    0004-637X
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/11067
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    We use a new approach to obtain limits on the absorbing columns toward an initial sample of 10 long gamma-ray bursts observed with BeppoSAX and selected on the basis of their good optical and near-infrared (NIR) coverage, from simultaneous fits to NIR, optical, and X-ray afterglow data, in count space and including the effects of metallicity. In no cases is a Milky Way-like ( MW) extinction preferred when testing MW, LMC, and SMC extinction laws. The 2175 angstrom bump would in principle be detectable in all these afterglows, but is not present in the data. An SMC-like gas-to-dust ratio or lower value can be ruled out for four of the hosts analyzed here ( assuming SMC metallicity and extinction law), while the remainder of the sample have too large an error to discriminate. We provide a more accurate estimate of the line-of-sight extinction and improve on the uncertainties for the majority of the extinction measurements made in previous studies of this sample. We discuss this method for determining extinction values in comparison with the most commonly employed existing methods.

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