Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2005-04-23
Nuovo Cim.C28:563-573,2005
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
20 pages, 13 figures, invited review at the 4th Workshop Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Afterglow Era, Rome,18-22 October 2004. Edito
Scientific paper
10.1393/ncc/i2005-10107-4
We review the observational status of the Supernova (SN)/Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) connection. In section 2 we provide a short summary of the observational properties of core-collapse SNe. In sections 3-6 we review the circumstantial evidences and the direct observations that support the existence of a deep connection between the death of massive stars and GRBs. Present data suggest that SNe associated with GRBs form a heterogeneous class of objects including both bright and faint Hypernovae and perhaps also `standard' Ib/c events. In section 7, we provide an empirical estimate of the rate of Hypernovae, for a ``MilkyWay-like'' galaxy, of about $\sim 2.6\times 10^{-4}$ yr$^{-1}$ that may imply the ratio GRB/Hypernovae to be in the range $\sim 0.03-0.7$. In the same framework we find the ratio GRB/SNe-Ibc to be $\sim 0.008\div 0.05$. In section 8 we discuss the possible existence of a lag between the SN explosion and the associated gamma-ray event. In the few SN/GRB associations so far discovered the SN explosions and GRB events appear to go off simultaneously. In section 9 we present the conclusions and highlight the open problems that Swift hopefully will allow us to solve.
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