Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Jan 2010
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American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #215, #606.33; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 36, p.1135
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
We report observations in the R-band of the afterglow of GRB 090618 with the SARA 0.9m telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory. The lightcurve can be fit with a broken power law, with a possible jet break at t j ˜ 0.74 days. The foreground extinction to this burst is A R = 0.036 while the extinction in the host galaxy is undetermined. We also carry out a study of dust destruction due to heating by the prompt and early afterglow emission from the gamma-ray bursts. Dust can be destroyed to distances of several parsecs, so that the local environment of a GRB may not contribute significantly to the possible obscuration. While multiband photometry of GRB afterglows offers a powerful probe of dust evolution to large redshifts, the effects of the intense GRB radiation on dust in its vicinity must be taken into account.
This project was funded by a partnership between the National Science Foundation (NSF AST-0552798), Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU), and the Department of Defense (DoD) ASSURE (Awards to Stimulate and Support Undergraduate Research Experiences) programs. We thank S. Brittain, A. Colson, J. Lewis, and M. Kronberg for obtaining the CCD images with the SARA telescope. This project has also benefited from discussions with Renata Cumbee and Shanna Estes.
Hackett Brianne
Hartmann Dieter H.
Updike Adria C.
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