The host-galaxy response to the afterglow of GRB 100901A
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Hartoog, O. E.
Wiersema, K.
Vreeswijk, P. M.
Kaper, L.
Tanvir, N. R.
Savaglio, S.
Covino, S.
D, V.
Flores, H.
Fynbo, J. P. U.
Goldoni, P.
Gomboc, A.
Melandri, A.
Pozanenko, A.
Schaye, J.
Postigo, A. d. U.
Wijers, R. A. M. J.
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Hartoog, O. E., K. Wiersema, P. M. Vreeswijk, L. Kaper, N. R. Tanvir, S. Savaglio, E. Berger, et al. 2013. The Host-Galaxy Response to the Afterglow of GRB 100901A. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 430, no. 4: 2739–2754. doi:10.1093/mnras/stt078.Abstract
For Gamma-Ray Burst 100901A, we have obtained Gemini-North and Very Large Telescope optical afterglow spectra at four epochs: one hour, one day, three days and one week after the burst, thanks to the afterglow remaining unusually bright at late times. Apart from a wealth of metal resonance lines, we also detect lines arising from fine-structure levels of the ground state of Fe ii, and from metastable levels of Fe ii and Ni ii at the host redshift (z = 1.4084). These lines are found to vary significantly in time. The combination of the data and modelling results shows that we detect the fall of the Ni ii 4F9/2 metastable level population, which to date has not been observed. Assuming that the population of the excited states is due to the UV-radiation of the afterglow, we estimate an absorber distance of a few hundred pc. This appears to be a typical value when compared to similar studies. We detect two intervening absorbers (z = 1.3147, 1.3179). Despite the wide temporal range of the data, we do not see significant variation in the absorption lines of these two intervening systems.Other Sources
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