Gamma-Ray Burst afterglows as probes of environment and blastwave physics I: absorption by host galaxy gas and dust

Details Gamma-Ray Burst afterglows as probes of environment and blastwave physics I: absorption by host galaxy gas and dust Gamma-Ray Burst afterglows as probes of environment and blastwave physics I: absorption by host galaxy gas and dust

2006-10-30

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0610899v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

25 pages, 5 figures, ApJ accepted. Minor revisions to Table 1, Sections 4.1.4 and 5.1.5

Scientific paper

10.1086/511953

We use a new approach to obtain limits on the absorbing columns towards an initial sample of 10 long Gamma-Ray Bursts observed with BeppoSAX and selected on the basis of their good optical and nIR coverage, from simultaneous fits to nIR, optical and X-ray afterglow data, in count space and including the effects of metallicity. In no cases is a MW-like extinction preferred, when testing MW, LMC and SMC extinction laws. The 2175A bump would in principle be detectable in all these afterglows, but is not present in the data. An SMC-like gas-to-dust ratio or lower value can be ruled out for 4 of the hosts analysed here (assuming SMC metallicity and extinction law) whilst the remainder of the sample have too large an error to discriminate. We provide a more accurate estimate of the line-of-sight extinction and improve upon the uncertainties for the majority of the extinction measurements made in previous studies of this sample. We discuss this method to determine extinction values in comparison with the most commonly employed existing methods.

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