Multi-Wavelength Observations of Short-Duration Gamma-Ray Bursts: Recent Results

D.A. Kann

doi:10.1051/eas/1361049

Issue		EAS Publications Series Volume 61, 2013 Gamma-ray Bursts: 15 Years of GRB Afterglows – Progenitors, Environments and Host Galaxies from the Nearby to the Early Universe


Page(s)		309 - 317
Section		Chapter VII: Short GRBs
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/eas/1361049
Published online		22 July 2013

Gamma-ray Bursts: 15 Years of GRB Afterglows
A.J. Castro-Tirado, J.Gorosabel and I.H. Park (eds) EAS Publications Series, 61 (2013) 309-317

Multi-Wavelength Observations of Short-Duration Gamma-Ray Bursts: Recent Results

D.A. Kann¹^,2^,3

¹ Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik, Giessenbachstraße, 85748 Garching, Germany ;
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² Universe Cluster, Technische Universität München, Boltzmannstraße 2, 85748 Garching, Germany ;
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³ Thüringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg, Sternwarte 5, 07778 Tautenburg, Germany ;
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Abstract

The number of detections as well as significantly deep non-detections of optical/NIR afterglows of Type I (compact-object-merger population) Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) has become large enough that statistically meaningful samples can now be constructed. I present within some recent results on the luminosity distribution of Type I GRB afterglows in comparison to those of Type II GRBs (collapsar population), the issue of the existence of jet breaks in Type I GRB afterglows, and the discovery of dark Type I GRBs.