A Day in the Life of a Short Gamma-Ray Burst

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Sep 2003

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Chandra Proposal ID #05500532

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Chandra Proposal Id #05500532

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Gamma-ray burst models favor massive stellar collapse as the mechanism for long bursts and compact binary mergers for short bursts. While much observational progress has been made in recent years for afterglows of long bursts, nothing is known about afterglows of short bursts. The imminent launch of the Swift observatory will allow us to study short burst afterglows, and Chandra observations will be critical in determining their proximity to host galaxies and in studying progenitor environments through measurements of spectral lines. We propose 3 targets of opportunity to study short burst afterglows: a 25 ks imaging observation of a relatively faint afterglow; a 100 ks ACIS-S3 observation of a moderately bright afterglow; and a 100 ks ACIS/HETG observation of a bright afterglow.

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