Dust and dark Gamma-Ray Bursts: mutual implications

Details Dust and dark Gamma-Ray Bursts: mutual implications Dust and dark Gamma-Ray Bursts: mutual implications

2003-10-07

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0310184v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

16 pages, 8 figures, accepted by A&A

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20034612

In a cosmological context dust has been always poorly understood. That is true also for the statistic of GRBs so that we started a program to understand its role both in relation to GRBs and in function of z. This paper presents a composite model in this direction. The model considers a rather generic distribution of dust in a spiral galaxy and considers the effect of changing some of the parameters characterizing the dust grains, size in particular. We first simulated 500 GRBs distributed as the host galaxy mass distribution, using as model the Milky Way. If we consider dust with the same properties as that we observe in the Milky Way, we find that due to absorption we miss about 10% of the afterglows assuming we observe the event within about 1 hour or even within 100s. In our second set of simulations we placed GRBs randomly inside giants molecular clouds, considering different kinds of dust inside and outside the host cloud and the effect of dust sublimation caused by the GRB inside the clouds. In this case absorption is mainly due to the host cloud and the physical properties of dust play a strong role. Computations from this model agree with the hypothesis of host galaxies with extinction curve similar to that of the Small Magellanic Cloud, whereas the host cloud could be also characterized by dust with larger grains. To confirm our findings we need a set of homogeneous infrared observations. The use of coming dedicated infrared telescopes, like REM, will provide a wealth of cases of new afterglow observations.

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