Perspectives of observing the color indices of optical afterglows of gamma-ray bursts with ESA Gaia

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985815%3A_____%2F17%3A00482639" target="_blank" >RIV/67985815:_____/17:00482639 - isvavai.cz</a>

Nalezeny alternativní kódy

RIV/68407700:21230/17:00314154

Výsledek na webu

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10686-017-9550-5" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10686-017-9550-5</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10686-017-9550-5" target="_blank" >10.1007/s10686-017-9550-5</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Perspectives of observing the color indices of optical afterglows of gamma-ray bursts with ESA Gaia

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

We propose a strategy for detecting and analyzing optical afterglows (OAs) of long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) without the need to obtain their light curves. This approach is useful for the Gaia satellite, which provides sampled optical ultra-low-dispersion spectroscopic observations of the sky. For this purpose, we show that most OAs of long GRBs display specific values of some of their color indices, representing synchrotron emission of the jet. They are stable in time during the event. These indices, which can be determined from the spectra, are very similar for the ensemble of OAs with redshift z < 3.5 and display a strong clustering in some color-color diagrams. These indices also enable to constrain the properties of the local interstellar medium of GRBs. The long-lasting mapping of the sky with the Gaia instruments also gives us a hope to search for the so-called orphan afterglows, which, according to some authors, can be considerably more numerous than OAs of the observed GRBs. We also show how to resolve OAs from other transients in the Gaia data. The color indices and the properties of the quiescent sources (host galaxies of OAs detectable later by the large ground-based telescopes at the co-ordinates of the OA determined by Gaia) would tell us which one, among transients detected by Gaia, is a GRB OA.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Perspectives of observing the color indices of optical afterglows of gamma-ray bursts with ESA Gaia

Popis výsledku anglicky

We propose a strategy for detecting and analyzing optical afterglows (OAs) of long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) without the need to obtain their light curves. This approach is useful for the Gaia satellite, which provides sampled optical ultra-low-dispersion spectroscopic observations of the sky. For this purpose, we show that most OAs of long GRBs display specific values of some of their color indices, representing synchrotron emission of the jet. They are stable in time during the event. These indices, which can be determined from the spectra, are very similar for the ensemble of OAs with redshift z < 3.5 and display a strong clustering in some color-color diagrams. These indices also enable to constrain the properties of the local interstellar medium of GRBs. The long-lasting mapping of the sky with the Gaia instruments also gives us a hope to search for the so-called orphan afterglows, which, according to some authors, can be considerably more numerous than OAs of the observed GRBs. We also show how to resolve OAs from other transients in the Gaia data. The color indices and the properties of the quiescent sources (host galaxies of OAs detectable later by the large ground-based telescopes at the co-ordinates of the OA determined by Gaia) would tell us which one, among transients detected by Gaia, is a GRB OA.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

10308 - Astronomy (including astrophysics,space science)

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GA13-33324S" target="_blank" >GA13-33324S: Rentgenový monitor račí oko</a><br>

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2017

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Experimental Astronomy

ISSN

0922-6435

e-ISSN

—

Svazek periodika

44

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1

Stát vydavatele periodika

NL - Nizozemsko

Počet stran výsledku

18

Strana od-do

129-146

Kód UT WoS článku

000412076500007

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85026824546