Probing the Galaxy Cluster Environments of the Mysterious Short Gamma-Ray Bursts

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Oct 2005

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005xmm..prop..177p&link_type=abstract

XMM-Newton Proposal ID #04048003

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Groups Of Galaxies, Clusters Of Galaxies, Supercluster, Grb 050813, Grb 790613, Grb 790406, Xmm-Newton Proposal 04048003

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We are currently in a period of rapid advancement in our understanding of the nature of short-duration hard-spectrum gamma-ray bursts. A handful of this minority subclass have finally been localized, allowing for identification of their host galaxies. These hosts have been found to span a range of spectral types and star-formation rates. Particularly intriguing is the association of two short GRBs with galaxies that are part of clusters. We propose relatively short XMM observations of all well-localized short GRBs without existing XMM or Chandra observations to better determine the relationship between short GRBs and galaxy clusters as well as determine the properties (e.g., cluster mass) of the large-scale host environments.

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