1212.0040 (David Alexander Kann)

Multi-Wavelength Observations of Short-Duration Gamma-Ray Bursts: Recent Results    [PDF]

David Alexander Kann

The number of detections as well as significantly deep non-detections of optical/NIR afterglows of Type I (short-duration population) Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) has become large enough that statistically meaningful samples can now be constructed. I present within some recent results on the luminosity distribution of Type I GRB afterglows in comparison to those of Type II GRBs (collapsar population), the issue of the existence of jet breaks in Type I GRB afterglows, and the discovery of dark Type I GRBs.

View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.0040