Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Jul 2007
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HST Proposal ID #11176. Cycle 16
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Scientific paper
During the past decade extraordinary progress has been made in determining the origin of long-duration gamma-ray bursts. It has been conclusively shown that these objects derive from the deaths of massive stars. Nonetheless, the origin of their observational cousins, short-duration gamma-ray bursts SGRBs remains a mystery. While SGRBs are widely thought to result from the inspiral of compact binaries, this is a conjecture. A number of hosts of SGRBs have been identified, and have been used by some to argue that SGRBs derive primarily from an ancient population ~ 5 Gyr; however, it is not known whether this conclusion more accurately reflects selection biases or astrophysics. Here we propose to employ a variant of a technique that we pioneered and used to great effect in elucidating the origins of long-duration bursts. We will examine the degree to which SGRB locations trace the red or blue light of their hosts, and thus old or young stellar populations. This approach will allow us to study the demographics of the SGRB population in a manner largely free of the distance dependent selection effects which have so far bedeviled this field, and should give direct insight into the age of the SGRB progenitor population.;
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