Probing the nature of Dark GRBs using Swift and Chandra in Synergy

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Sep 2004

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Chandra Proposal ID #06500351

Physics

Chandra Proposal Id #06500351

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While most GRBs have X-ray counterparts, only in about half of them have radio and optical afterglows been found. There exists among these followed-up GRBs, a handful of events without optical counterparts, albeit with very faint optical limits. These have been loosely called dark GRBs, and are quite likely a medley of cases, with some of the optical counterparts being intrinsically very faint, some highly reddened or redshifted, and some simply missed due to adverse observing conditions. We propose to perform a 60 ks Chandra ToO observation of one such dark GRB, selected with a synergy of all instruments onboard Swift. Our goal is to determine the true origin of the phenomenon and shed light on GRB progenitors and their environments.

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