The afterglow and elliptical host galaxy of the short gamma-ray burst GRB 050724

Berger, Edo; Price, Paul Antony; Cenko, Stephen B; Gal-Yam, Avishay; Soderberg, A M; Kasliwal, M M; Leonard, D C; Cameron, P B; Frail, Dale A; Kulkarni, Shrinivas R; Murphy, D W; Krzeminski, W; Piran, T; Lee, B L; Roth, K C; Moon, D-S; Fox, Derek B; Harrison, F A; Persson, S E; Penprase, B E; Rich, Joshua; Peterson, Bruce; Cowie, L L

The afterglow and elliptical host galaxy of the short gamma-ray burst GRB 050724

Date

2005

Authors

Berger, Edo

Price, Paul Antony

Cenko, Stephen B

Gal-Yam, Avishay

Soderberg, A M

Kasliwal, M M

Leonard, D C

Cameron, P B

Frail, Dale A

Kulkarni, Shrinivas R

Publisher

Macmillan Publishers Ltd

Abstract

Despite a rich phenomenology, γ-ray bursts (GRBs) are divided1 into two classes based on their duration and spectral hardness - the long-soft and the short-hard bursts. The discovery of afterglow emission from long GRBs was a watershed event, pinpointing