Bunyo Hatsukade, Tetsuya Hashimoto, Kouji Ohta, Kouichiro Nakanishi, Yoichi Tamura, Kotaro Kohno
We present the results of the 16-cm-waveband continuum observations of four
host galaxies of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) 990705, 021211, 041006, and 051022
using the Australia Telescope Compact Array. Radio emission was not detected in
any of the host galaxies. The 2sigma upper limits on star-formation rates
derived from the radio observations of the host galaxies are 23, 45, 27, and 26
Msun/yr, respectively, which are about 10 times less than those derived from
UV/optical observations, suggesting that they have no significant dust-obscured
star formation. GRBs 021211 and 051022 are known as the so-called "dark GRBs"
and our results imply that dark GRBs do not always occur in galaxies enshrouded
by dust. Because large dust extinction was not observed in the afterglow of
GRB021211, our result {\bf suggests the possibility} that the cause of the dark
GRB is the intrinsic faintness of the optical afterglow. On the other hand, by
considering the high column density observed in the afterglow of GRB051022, the
likely cause of the dark GRB is the dust extinction in the line of sight of the
GRB.
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http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.4947
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