GRB 130606A within a sub-DLA at redshift 5.91

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العنوان: GRB 130606A within a sub-DLA at redshift 5.91
المؤلفون: Castro-Tirado, A. J., Sánchez-Ramírez, R., Ellison, S. L., Jelínek, M., Martín-Carrillo, A., Bromm, V., Gorosabel, J., Bremer, M., Winters, J. M., Hanlon, L., Meegan, S., Topinka, M., Pandey, S. B., Guziy, S., Jeong, S., Sonbas, E., Pozanenko, A. S., Cunniffe, R., Fernández-Muñoz, R., Ferrero, P., Gehrels, N., Hudec, R., Kubánek, P., Lara-Gil, O., Muñoz-Martínez, V. F., Pérez-Ramírez, D., Štrobl, J., Álvarez-Iglesias, C., Inasaridze, R., Rumyantsev, V., Volnova, A., Hellmich, S., Mottola, S., Cerón, J. M. Castro, Cepa, J., Göğüş, E., Güver, T., Taş, Ö. Önal, Park, I. H., Sabau-Graziati, L., Tejero, A.
سنة النشر: 2013
المجموعة: Astrophysics
مصطلحات موضوعية: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
الوصف: Events such as GRB130606A at z=5.91, offer an exciting new window into pre-galactic metal enrichment in these very high redshift host galaxies. We study the environment and host galaxy of GRB 130606A, a high-z event, in the context of a high redshift population of GRBs. We have obtained multiwavelength observations from radio to gamma-ray, concentrating particularly on the X-ray evolution as well as the optical photometric and spectroscopic data analysis. With an initial Lorentz bulk factor in the range \Gamma_0 ~ 65-220, the X-ray afterglow evolution can be explained by a time-dependent photoionization of the local circumburst medium, within a compact and dense environment. The host galaxy is a sub-DLA (log N (HI) = 19.85+/-0.15), with a metallicity content in the range from ~1/7 to ~1/60 of solar. Highly ionized species (N V and Si IV) are also detected. This is the second highest redshift burst with a measured GRB-DLA metallicity and only the third GRB absorber with sub-DLA HI column density. GRB ' lighthouses' therefore offer enormous potential as backlighting sources to probe the ionization and metal enrichment state of the IGM at very high redshifts for the chemical signature of the first generation of stars.
Comment: 10 pages, 9 figures, submitted to A&A. Typos corrected
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.5631
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.1312.5631
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv