Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2001-04-10
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 325 (2001) 1477
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
11 pages, 6 figures, minor changes, matches version published in MNRAS
Scientific paper
10.1046/j.1365-8711.2001.04545.x
Recent observations of the environments of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) favour massive stars as their progenitors, which are likely to be surrounded by gas and dust. The visibility of the optical and UV emission of a GRB are expected to depend on the characteristics of both the dust and the GRB emission itself. A reasonable distribution of surrounding dust is capable of absorbing all the optical and UV emission of the optical flash and afterglow of a GRB, unless the optical flash has a peak isotropic luminosity L_peak > 10^49 erg/s. This means that dark bursts should exist and these bursts will have to be studied at infrared rather than optical wavelengths. In this paper details will be given about the infrared GRB dust emission. The reprocessed dust emission peaks at a rest-frame wavelength of about 8 micron. Forthcoming space telescopes, in particular the IRAC camera aboard the Space Infrared Telescope Facility could detect this emission out to a redshift of about 2. However, an accurate position of the GRB afterglow must be provided for this emission to be identified, because the light curve of the reprocessed dust emission does not vary on time-scales less than several years.
Blain Andrew W.
Venemans Bram Pieter
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