A Public STIS Survey of the Host Galaxies of Gamma-Ray Bursts

Details A Public STIS Survey of the Host Galaxies of Gamma-Ray Bursts A Public STIS Survey of the Host Galaxies of Gamma-Ray Bursts

Jul 2000

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HST Proposal ID #8640

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Hst Proposal Id #8640 Cosmology

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We propose to obtain high-resolution STIS images of the fields containing gamma-ray burst with well-localized coordinates; i.e. the burst has been localized to within approximately one arcsecond. The goal of this survey is to obtain a uniform sample of images of the host galaxies of these bursts. This data will be used to search for host galaxies that are too faint to be discovered by ground-based searches, to study the morphology of host galaxies, and to compare the population of galaxies that contain gamma-ray bursts to other populations of galaxies such as Lyman Break Galaxies, Damped Lyman-Alpha Absorption Systems, infrared galaxies. This survey will allow us to probe the star-formation rate in the high-redshift Universe and to study the nature of stellar populations at early epochs. We intend to waive all proprietary rights to this data, and will make optimally-combined images available to the astronomical community as soon as they are produced.

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