Failed optical afterglows

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2001-03-28

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0103468v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

3 pages, 1 fig., to appear in the proceedings of the the 2nd Workshop on Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Afterglow Era, Rome, Oct. 200

Scientific paper

10.1007/10853853_76

While all but one Gamma-Ray Bursts observed in the X-ray band showed an X-ray afterglow, about 60 per cent of them have not been detected in the optical band. We show that this is not due to adverse observing conditions. We then investigate the hypothesis that the failure of detecting the optical afterglow is due to absorption at the source location. We find that this is a marginally viable interpretation, but only if the X-ray burst and afterglow emission and the possible optical/UV flash do not destroy the dust responsible for absorption in the optical band. If dust is efficiently destroyed, we are led to conclude that bursts with no detected optical afterglow are intrinsically different.

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