Late time observations of GRB080319B: jet break, host galaxy and accompanying supernova

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2008-12-05

arxiv.org/abs/0812.1217v2

Astrophys.J.725:625-632,2010

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Revised in response to referee's comments, and with some additional data added

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10.1088/0004-637X/725/1/625

The Swift discovered GRB080319B was by far the most distant source ever observed at naked eye brightness, reaching a peak apparent magnitude of 5.3 at a redshift of z=0.937. We present our late-time optical (HST, Gemini & VLT) and X-ray (Chandra) observations, which confirm that an achromatic break occurred in the power-law afterglow light curve at ~11 days post-burst. This most likely indicates that the gamma-ray burst (GRB) outflow was collimated, which for a uniform jet would imply a total energy in the jet E_{jet} \gsim 10^{52} erg. Our observations also show a late-time excess of red light, which is well explained if the GRB was accompanied by a supernova (SN), similar to those seen in some other long-duration GRBs. The latest observations are dominated by light from the host and show that the GRB took place in a faint dwarf galaxy (r(AB)\approx27.0, rest-frame M_B\approx-17.2). This galaxy is small even by the standards of other GRB hosts, which is suggestive of a low metallicity environment. Intriguingly, the properties of this extreme event - a small host and bright supernova - are entirely typical of the very low-luminosity bursts such as GRB980425 and GRB060218.

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