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

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Sep 2004

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Chandra Proposal ID #06500992

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Chandra Proposal Id #06500992

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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 envoronments through measurements of spectral lines. We propose two targets of opportunity to study a short burst afterglow: a 100 ks ACIS observation of a bright afterglow one day after the burst, and a 50 ks followup observation of the same afterglow 2 weeks after the burst.

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