Afterglows and Environments of Short-Hard Gamma-Ray Bursts

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Jul 2006

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HST Proposal ID #10917. Cycle 15

Computer Science

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Discovery of the first afterglows of short-hard bursts SHBs has led to a revolution in our understanding of these events, strongly suggesting that they originate in the mergers of compact-object binaries. Capitalizing on this progress, we propose to pursue the next generation of SHB observations with HST, tracking the decay of all accessible SHB afterglows to late times and pinpointing the location of several more within the context of their host galaxies. These observations will allow quantitative analysis of progenitor lifetimes and short burst environments, enable direct confrontation with population synthesis models, and provide updated event rate estimates for the LIGO and VIRGO gravitational-wave detectors that are now coming on-line.

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