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Veres P, Bhat PN, Briggs MS, Cleveland WH, Hamburg R, Hui CM, Mailyan B, Preece RD, Roberts OJ, von Kienlin A, Wilson-Hodge CA, Kocevski D, Arimoto M, Tak D, Asano K, Axelsson M, Barbiellini G, Bissaldi E, Dirirsa FF, Gill R, Granot J, McEnery J, Omodei N, Razzaque S, Piron F, Racusin JL, Thompson DJ, Campana S, Bernardini MG, Kuin NPM, Siegel MH, Cenko SB, O’Brien P, Capalbi M, Daì A, De Pasquale M, Gropp J, Klingler N, Osborne JP, Perri M, Starling RLC, 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 GE, Anderson JP, Bernardi G, Bolmer J, Caballero-García MD, Carrasco IM, Castellón A, Segura NC, Castro-Tirado AJ, Cherukuri SV, Cockeram AM, D’Avanzo P, Di Dato A, Diretse R, Fender RP, Fernández-García E, Fynbo JPU, Fruchter AS, Greiner J, Gromadzki M, Heintz KE, Heywood I, van der Horst AJ, Hu YD, Inserra C, Izzo L, Jaiswal V, Jakobsson P, Japelj J, Kankare E, Kann DA, Kouveliotou C, Klose S, Levan AJ, Li XY, Lotti S, Maguire K, Malesani DB, Manulis I, Marongiu M, Martin S, Melandri A, Michałowski MJ, Miller-Jones JCA, Misra K, Moin A, Mooley KP, Nasri S, Nicholl M, Noschese A, Novara G, Pandey SB, Peretti E, del Pulgar CJP, Pérez-Torres MA, Perley DA, Piro L, Ragosta F, Resmi L, Ricci R, Rossi A, Sánchez-Ramírez R, Selsing J, Schulze S, Smartt SJ, Smith IA, Sokolov VV, Stevens J, Tanvir NR, Thöne CC, Tiengo A, Tremou E, Troja E, de Ugarte Postigo A, Valeev AF, Vergani SD, Wieringa M, Woudt PA, Xu D, Yaron O, Young DR. Observation of inverse Compton emission from a long γ-ray burst. Nature 2019; 575:459-463. [DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019-1754-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 92] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2019] [Accepted: 10/18/2019] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Izzo L, de Ugarte Postigo A, Maeda K, Thöne CC, Kann DA, Della Valle M, Sagues Carracedo A, Michałowski MJ, Schady P, Schmidl S, Selsing J, Starling RLC, Suzuki A, Bensch K, Bolmer J, Campana S, Cano Z, Covino S, Fynbo JPU, Hartmann DH, Heintz KE, Hjorth J, Japelj J, Kamiński K, Kaper L, Kouveliotou C, Krużyński M, Kwiatkowski T, Leloudas G, Levan AJ, Malesani DB, Michałowski T, Piranomonte S, Pugliese G, Rossi A, Sánchez-Ramírez R, Schulze S, Steeghs D, Tanvir NR, Ulaczyk K, Vergani SD, Wiersema K. Signatures of a jet cocoon in early spectra of a supernova associated with a γ-ray burst. Nature 2019; 565:324-327. [PMID: 30651614 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-018-0826-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2018] [Accepted: 11/15/2018] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
Abstract
Long γ-ray bursts are associated with energetic, broad-lined, stripped-envelope supernovae1,2 and as such mark the death of massive stars. The scarcity of such events nearby and the brightness of the γ-ray burst afterglow, which dominates the emission in the first few days after the burst, have so far prevented the study of the very early evolution of supernovae associated with γ-ray bursts3. In hydrogen-stripped supernovae that are not associated with γ-ray bursts, an excess of high-velocity (roughly 30,000 kilometres per second) material has been interpreted as a signature of a choked jet, which did not emerge from the progenitor star and instead deposited all of its energy in a thermal cocoon4. Here we report multi-epoch spectroscopic observations of the supernova SN 2017iuk, which is associated with the γ-ray burst GRB 171205A. Our spectra display features at extremely high expansion velocities (around 115,000 kilometres per second) within the first day after the burst5,6. Using spectral synthesis models developed for SN 2017iuk, we show that these features are characterized by chemical abundances that differ from those observed in the ejecta of SN 2017iuk at later times. We further show that the high-velocity features originate from the mildly relativistic hot cocoon that is generated by an ultra-relativistic jet within the γ-ray burst expanding and decelerating into the medium that surrounds the progenitor star7,8. This cocoon rapidly becomes transparent9 and is outshone by the supernova emission, which starts to dominate the emission three days after the burst.
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- L Izzo
- Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC), Granada, Spain.
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- Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC), Granada, Spain.,DARK, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenaghen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Astronomy, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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- Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC), Granada, Spain
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- Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC), Granada, Spain
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- Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC), Granada, Spain.,INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte, Napoli, Italy.,International Center for Relativistic Astrophysics Network, Pescara, Italy.,LAPTh, Université de Savoie, CNRS, Annecy-le-Vieux, France
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- The Oskar Klein Centre, Physics Department, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Astronomical Observatory Institute, Faculty of Physics, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik, Garching, Germany.,Department of Physics, University of Bath, Bath, UK
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- Thüringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg, Tautenburg, Germany
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- DARK, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenaghen, Copenhagen, Denmark.,The Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN), Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen Ø, Denmark.,The Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN), DTU-Space, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
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- Division of Theoretical Astronomy, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Tokyo, Japan
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- Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC), Granada, Spain
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik, Garching, Germany.,European Southern Observatory, Vitacura, Chile
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- INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, Merate, Italy
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- Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC), Granada, Spain
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- INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, Merate, Italy
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- The Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN), Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen Ø, Denmark.,The Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN), DTU-Space, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, USA
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- The Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN), Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen Ø, Denmark.,The Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN), DTU-Space, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark.,Centre for Astrophysics and Cosmology, Science Institute, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
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- DARK, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenaghen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Astronomical Institute Anton Pannekoek, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Astronomical Observatory Institute, Faculty of Physics, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
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- Astronomical Institute Anton Pannekoek, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Physics, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA.,Astronomy, Physics and Statistics Institute of Sciences (APSIS), The George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA
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- Astronomical Observatory Institute, Faculty of Physics, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
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- Astronomical Observatory Institute, Faculty of Physics, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
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- DARK, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenaghen, Copenhagen, Denmark.,DTU Space, National Space Institute, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
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- Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
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- DARK, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenaghen, Copenhagen, Denmark.,The Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN), Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen Ø, Denmark.,The Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN), DTU-Space, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
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- Astronomical Observatory Institute, Faculty of Physics, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
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- INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, Monte Porzio Catone, Italy
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- Astronomical Institute Anton Pannekoek, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- INAF-Osservatorio di Astrofisica e Scienza dello Spazio di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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- Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
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- Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
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- GEPI, Observatoire de Paris, PSL University, CNRS, Meudon, France
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK.,Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
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Levan AJ, Tanvir NR, Cenko SB, Perley DA, Wiersema K, Bloom JS, Fruchter AS, Postigo ADU, O’Brien PT, Butler N, van der Horst AJ, Leloudas G, Morgan AN, Misra K, Bower GC, Farihi J, Tunnicliffe RL, Modjaz M, Silverman JM, Hjorth J, Thöne C, Cucchiara A, Cerón JMC, Castro-Tirado AJ, Arnold JA, Bremer M, Brodie JP, Carroll T, Cooper MC, Curran PA, Cutri RM, Ehle J, Forbes D, Fynbo J, Gorosabel J, Graham J, Hoffman DI, Guziy S, Jakobsson P, Kamble A, Kerr T, Kasliwal MM, Kouveliotou C, Kocevski D, Law NM, Nugent PE, Ofek EO, Poznanski D, Quimby RM, Rol E, Romanowsky AJ, Sánchez-Ramírez R, Schulze S, Singh N, van Spaandonk L, Starling RLC, Strom RG, Tello JC, Vaduvescu O, Wheatley PJ, Wijers RAMJ, Winters JM, Xu D. An Extremely Luminous Panchromatic Outburst from the Nucleus of a Distant Galaxy. Science 2011; 333:199-202. [PMID: 21680811 DOI: 10.1126/science.1207143] [Citation(s) in RCA: 258] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- A. J. Levan
- Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK
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- Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720–3411, USA
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- Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720–3411, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK
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- Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720–3411, USA
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- Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
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- Dark Cosmology Centre, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK
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- Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720–3411, USA
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- Universities Space Research Association, National Space Science and Technology Center, 320 Sparkman Drive, Huntsville, AL 35805, USA
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- Dark Cosmology Centre, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720–3411, USA
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- Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
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- Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720–3411, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK
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- Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory, Columbia University, New York, NY 10024, USA
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- Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720–3411, USA
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- Dark Cosmology Centre, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía–Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (IAA-CSIC), Glorieta de la Astronomía s/n, E-18008 Granada, Spain
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- Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720–3411, USA
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- Herschel Science Operations Centre, European Space Astronomy Centre, European Space Agency (ESA), Post Office Box 78, 28691 Villanueva de la Caada, Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía–Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (IAA-CSIC), Glorieta de la Astronomía s/n, E-18008 Granada, Spain
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- University of California Observatories/Lick Observatory, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
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- Institut de RadioAstronomie Millimétrique, 300 rue de la Piscine, Domaine Universitaire, 38406 Saint Martin d’Hères, France
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- University of California Observatories/Lick Observatory, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
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- Joint Astronomy center, 660 North A’ohoku Place, University Park, Hilo, HI 96720, USA
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- Center for Galaxy Evolution, University of California, Irvine, 4129 Frederick Reines Hall, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
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- Astrophysique Interactions Multi-échelles, Commissariat à l’Énergie Atomique/Direction des Sciences de la Matière–CNRS, Irfu/Service d’Astrophysique, Centre de Saclay, Bâtiment 709, FR-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
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- Infrared Processing and Analysis Center, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
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- Joint Astronomy center, 660 North A’ohoku Place, University Park, Hilo, HI 96720, USA
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- Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University, Hawthorn VIC 3122 Australia
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- Dark Cosmology Centre, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía–Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (IAA-CSIC), Glorieta de la Astronomía s/n, E-18008 Granada, Spain
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- Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
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- Infrared Processing and Analysis Center, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
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- Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía–Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (IAA-CSIC), Glorieta de la Astronomía s/n, E-18008 Granada, Spain
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- Centre for Astrophysics and Cosmology, Science Institute, University of Iceland, Dunhaga 5 IS-107 Reykjavik, Iceland
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- Center for Gravitation and Cosmology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1900 East Kenwood Boulevard, Milwaukee,WI 53211, USA
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- Joint Astronomy center, 660 North A’ohoku Place, University Park, Hilo, HI 96720, USA
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- Cahill Center for Astrophysics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
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- Space Science Office, VP62, NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL 35812, USA
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- University of California Observatories/Lick Observatory, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
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- Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, M5S 3H4 Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720–3411, USA
- Computational Cosmology Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Cahill Center for Astrophysics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
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- Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720–3411, USA
- Computational Cosmology Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Cahill Center for Astrophysics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
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- Astronomical Institute, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1098 XH Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- University of California Observatories/Lick Observatory, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
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- Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía–Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (IAA-CSIC), Glorieta de la Astronomía s/n, E-18008 Granada, Spain
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- Centre for Astrophysics and Cosmology, Science Institute, University of Iceland, Dunhaga 5 IS-107 Reykjavik, Iceland
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- University of California Observatories/Lick Observatory, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
- Centre for Astronomy, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
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- Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
- Centre for Astrophysics Research, Science and Technology Research Institute, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield AL10 9AB, UK
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK
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- Astronomical Institute, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1098 XH Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy (ASTRON), Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, Netherlands
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- Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía–Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (IAA-CSIC), Glorieta de la Astronomía s/n, E-18008 Granada, Spain
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- Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes, Apartado de correos 321 E-38700, Santa Cruz de la Palma, Canary Islands, Spain
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- Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
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- Astronomical Institute, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1098 XH Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Institut de RadioAstronomie Millimétrique, 300 rue de la Piscine, Domaine Universitaire, 38406 Saint Martin d’Hères, France
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- Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics, Faculty of Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, 76100, Israel
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Castro-Tirado AJ, de Ugarte Postigo A, Gorosabel J, Jelínek M, Fatkhullin TA, Sokolov VV, Ferrero P, Kann DA, Klose S, Sluse D, Bremer M, Winters JM, Nuernberger D, Pérez-Ramírez D, Guerrero MA, French J, Melady G, Hanlon L, McBreen B, Leventis K, Markoff SB, Leon S, Kraus A, Aceituno FJ, Cunniffe R, Kubánek P, Vítek S, Schulze S, Wilson AC, Hudec R, Durant M, González-Pérez JM, Shahbaz T, Guziy S, Pandey SB, Pavlenko L, Sonbas E, Trushkin SA, Bursov NN, Nizhelskij NA, Sánchez-Fernández C, Sabau-Graziati L. Flares from a candidate Galactic magnetar suggest a missing link to dim isolated neutron stars. Nature 2008; 455:506-9. [DOI: 10.1038/nature07328] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2008] [Accepted: 07/31/2008] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Racusin JL, Karpov SV, Sokolowski M, Granot J, Wu XF, Pal’shin V, Covino S, van der Horst AJ, Oates SR, Schady P, Smith RJ, Cummings J, Starling RLC, Piotrowski LW, Zhang B, Evans PA, Holland ST, Malek K, Page MT, Vetere L, Margutti R, Guidorzi C, Kamble AP, Curran PA, Beardmore A, Kouveliotou C, Mankiewicz L, Melandri A, O’Brien PT, Page KL, Piran T, Tanvir NR, Wrochna G, Aptekar RL, Barthelmy S, Bartolini C, Beskin GM, Bondar S, Bremer M, Campana S, Castro-Tirado A, Cucchiara A, Cwiok M, D’Avanzo P, D’Elia V, Valle MD, de Ugarte Postigo A, Dominik W, Falcone A, Fiore F, Fox DB, Frederiks DD, Fruchter AS, Fugazza D, Garrett MA, Gehrels N, Golenetskii S, Gomboc A, Gorosabel J, Greco G, Guarnieri A, Immler S, Jelinek M, Kasprowicz G, La Parola V, Levan AJ, Mangano V, Mazets EP, Molinari E, Moretti A, Nawrocki K, Oleynik PP, Osborne JP, Pagani C, Pandey SB, Paragi Z, Perri M, Piccioni A, Ramirez-Ruiz E, Roming PWA, Steele IA, Strom RG, Testa V, Tosti G, Ulanov MV, Wiersema K, Wijers RAMJ, Winters JM, Zarnecki AF, Zerbi F, Mészáros P, Chincarini G, Burrows DN. Broadband observations of the naked-eye γ-ray burst GRB 080319B. Nature 2008; 455:183-8. [DOI: 10.1038/nature07270] [Citation(s) in RCA: 376] [Impact Index Per Article: 23.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2008] [Accepted: 07/11/2008] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Haislip JB, Nysewander MC, Reichart DE, Levan A, Tanvir N, Cenko SB, Fox DB, Price PA, Castro-Tirado AJ, Gorosabel J, Evans CR, Figueredo E, MacLeod CL, Kirschbrown JR, Jelinek M, Guziy S, de Ugarte Postigo A, Cypriano ES, LaCluyze A, Graham J, Priddey R, Chapman R, Rhoads J, Fruchter AS, Lamb DQ, Kouveliotou C, Wijers RAMJ, Bayliss MB, Schmidt BP, Soderberg AM, Kulkarni SR, Harrison FA, Moon DS, Gal-Yam A, Kasliwal MM, Hudec R, Vitek S, Kubanek P, Crain JA, Foster AC, Clemens JC, Bartelme JW, Canterna R, Hartmann DH, Henden AA, Klose S, Park HS, Williams GG, Rol E, O'Brien P, Bersier D, Prada F, Pizarro S, Maturana D, Ugarte P, Alvarez A, Fernandez AJM, Jarvis MJ, Moles M, Alfaro E, Ivarsen KM, Kumar ND, Mack CE, Zdarowicz CM, Gehrels N, Barthelmy S, Burrows DN. A photometric redshift of z = 6.39 ± 0.12 for GRB 050904. Nature 2006; 440:181-3. [PMID: 16525465 DOI: 10.1038/nature04552] [Citation(s) in RCA: 97] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2005] [Accepted: 12/12/2005] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
Abstract
Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and their afterglows are the most brilliant transient events in the Universe. Both the bursts themselves and their afterglows have been predicted to be visible out to redshifts of z approximately 20, and therefore to be powerful probes of the early Universe. The burst GRB 000131, at z = 4.50, was hitherto the most distant such event identified. Here we report the discovery of the bright near-infrared afterglow of GRB 050904 (ref. 4). From our measurements of the near-infrared afterglow, and our failure to detect the optical afterglow, we determine the photometric redshift of the burst to be z = 6.39 - 0.12 + 0.11 (refs 5-7). Subsequently, it was measured spectroscopically to be z = 6.29 +/- 0.01, in agreement with our photometric estimate. These results demonstrate that GRBs can be used to trace the star formation, metallicity, and reionization histories of the early Universe.
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- J B Haislip
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Campus Box 3255, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, USA
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