Search Results - "de Ugarte Postigo, A"
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Short GRB 160821B: A Reverse Shock, a Refreshed Shock, and a Well-sampled Kilonova
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-09-2019)“…We report our identification of the optical afterglow and host galaxy of the short-duration gamma-ray burst sGRB 160821B. The spectroscopic redshift of the…”
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THE SWIFT GRB HOST GALAXY LEGACY SURVEY. II. REST-FRAME NEAR-IR LUMINOSITY DISTRIBUTION AND EVIDENCE FOR A NEAR-SOLAR METALLICITY THRESHOLD
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-01-2016)“…ABSTRACT We present rest-frame near-IR (NIR) luminosities and stellar masses for a large and uniformly selected population of gamma-ray burst (GRB) host…”
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Low frequency view of GRB 190114C reveals time varying shock micro-physics
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-07-2021)“…ABSTRACT We present radio and optical afterglow observations of the TeV-bright long gamma-ray burst 190114C at a redshift of z = 0.425, which was detected by…”
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THE SWIFT GAMMA-RAY BURST HOST GALAXY LEGACY SURVEY. I. SAMPLE SELECTION AND REDSHIFT DISTRIBUTION
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-01-2016)“…ABSTRACT We introduce the Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Host Galaxy Legacy Survey ("SHOALS"), a multi-observatory high-redshift galaxy survey targeting the largest…”
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On the nature of the 'hostless' short GRBs
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (11-01-2014)“…A significant proportion (∼30 per cent) of the short-duration gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs) localized by Swift have no detected host galaxy coincident with the…”
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The warm, the excited, and the molecular gas: GRB 121024A shining through its star-forming galaxy
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (21-07-2015)“…We present the first reported case of the simultaneous metallicity determination of a gamma-ray burst (GRB) host galaxy, from both afterglow absorption lines…”
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Rocking the BOAT: the ups and downs of the long-term radio light curve for GRB 221009A
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-10-2024)“…ABSTRACT We present radio observations of the long-duration gamma-ray burst (GRB) 221009A that has become known to the community as the Brightest Of All Time…”
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GRB 100219A with X-shooter - abundances in a galaxy at z =4.7
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-02-2013)“…Abundances of galaxies at redshifts z > 4 are difficult to obtain from damped Lyα (DLA) systems in the sightlines of quasars (QSOs) due to the Lyα forest…”
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Discovery of the afterglow and host galaxy of the low-redshift short GRB 080905A
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (11-10-2010)“…We present the discovery of short GRB 080905A, its optical afterglow and host galaxy. Initially discovered by Swift, our deep optical observations enabled the…”
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GRB 090313 and the Origin of Optical Peaks in Gamma-ray Burst Light Curves: Implications for Lorentz Factors and Radio Flares
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-11-2010)“…We use a sample of 19 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) that exhibit single-peaked optical light curves to test the standard fireball model by investigating the…”
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GRB 051008: a long, spectrally hard dust-obscured GRB in a Lyman-break galaxy at z ≈ 2.8
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (11-08-2014)“…We present observations of the dark gamma-ray burst GRB 051008 provided by Swift/BAT, Swift/XRT, Konus-WIND, INTEGRAL/SPI-ACS in the high-energy domain and the…”
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The optical counterpart of the bright X-ray transient Swift J1745−26
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (21-06-2013)“…We present a 30-day monitoring campaign of the optical counterpart of the bright X-ray transient Swift J1745−26, starting only 19 min after the discovery of…”
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Spectroscopy of superluminous supernova host galaxies. A preference of hydrogen-poor events for extreme emission line galaxies
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-05-2015)“…Superluminous supernovae (SLSNe) are very bright explosions that were only discovered recently and that show a preference for occurring in faint dwarf…”
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The fraction of ionizing radiation from massive stars that escapes to the intergalactic medium
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (11-03-2019)“…Whether stars could have driven the reionization of the intergalactic medium depends critically on the proportion of ionizing radiation that escapes the…”
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Laser Guide Star uplink beam: scattering and Raman emission measurements with the 10.4m Gran Telescopio CANARIAS
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (04-10-2022)“…ABSTRACT Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics (LGS-AO) is becoming routine in several astronomical observatories. The use of powerful lasers generates sensible…”
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Polarimetry of the superluminous transient ASASSN-15lh
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-11-2020)“…ABSTRACT ASASSN-15lh is the intrinsically brightest transient observed to date. Despite being the subject of concerted photometric and spectroscopic observing…”
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Mass and metallicity scaling relations of high-redshift star-forming galaxies selected by GRBs
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-01-2018)“…Abstract We present a comprehensive study of the relations between gas kinematics, metallicity and stellar mass in a sample of 82 gamma-ray burst…”
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Beryllium detection in the very fast nova ASASSN-16kt (V407 Lupi)
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-08-2018)“…Abstract We present high-resolution spectroscopic observations of the fast nova ASASSN-16kt (V407 Lup). A close inspection of spectra obtained at early stages…”
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THE OPTICALLY UNBIASED GRB HOST (TOUGH) SURVEY. VII. THE HOST GALAXY LUMINOSITY FUNCTION: PROBING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GRBs AND STAR FORMATION TO REDSHIFT ∼6
Published in The Astrophysical journal (17-07-2015)“…ABSTRACT Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) offer a route to characterizing star-forming galaxies and quantifying high-z star formation that is distinct from the approach…”
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A young stellar environment for the superluminous supernova PTF12dam
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Letters (21-07-2015)“…The progenitors of superluminous supernovae (SLSNe) are still a mystery. Hydrogen-poor SLSN hosts are young, highly star-forming dwarf galaxies and the…”
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