SN 2006aj and the nature of low-luminosity gamma-ray bursts

Details SN 2006aj and the nature of low-luminosity gamma-ray bursts SN 2006aj and the nature of low-luminosity gamma-ray bursts

2006-03-30

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0603832v4

Astrophys.J. 645 (2006) L113-L116

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

ApJ Letters - accepted

Scientific paper

10.1086/506271

We present SMARTS consortium optical/IR light curves of SN 2006aj associated with GRB 060218. We find that this event is broadly similar to two previously observed events SN 1998bw/GRB 980425 and SN 2003lw/GRB 031203. In particular, all of these events are greatly under-luminous in gamma-rays compared to typical long-duration GRBs. We find that the observation by Swift of even one such event implies a large enough true event rate to create difficulties in interpreting these events as typical GRBs observed off-axis. Thus these events appear to be intrinsically different from and much more common than high-luminosity GRBs, which have been observed in large numbers out to a redshift of at least 6.3. The existence of a range of intrinsic energies of GRBs may present challenges to using GRBs as standard candles.

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