AnHSTStudy of the Supernovae Accompanying GRB 040924 and GRB 041006
Author(s) -
A. M. Soderberg,
S. R. Kulkarni,
P. A. Price,
D. B. Fox,
E. Berger,
DaeSik Moon,
S. B. Cenko,
A. GalYam,
D. A. Frail,
Roger A. Chevalier,
L. L. Cowie,
G. S. Da Costa,
Andrew MacFadyen,
Patrick J. McCarthy,
N. E. D. Noël,
H.S. Park,
B. A. Peterson,
M. M. Phillips,
Michael Rauch,
A. Rest,
J. Rich,
K. C. Roth,
M. Roth,
B. Schmidt,
R. C. Smith,
P. R. Wood
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
the astrophysical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.376
H-Index - 489
eISSN - 1538-4357
pISSN - 0004-637X
DOI - 10.1086/498009
Subject(s) - gamma ray burst , physics , supernova , astrophysics , luminosity , hubble space telescope , astronomy , galaxy
We present the results from a {\it Hubble Space Telescope/ACS} study of thesupernovae associated with gamma-ray bursts 040924 ($z=0.86$) and 041006($z=0.71$). We find evidence that both GRBs were associated with a SN1998bw-like supernova dimmed by $\sim 1.5$ and $\sim 0.3$ magnitudes,respectively, making GRB 040924 the faintest GRB-associated SN ever detected.We study the luminosity dispersion in GRB/XRF-associated SNe and compare tolocal Type Ibc supernovae from the literature. We find significant overlapbetween the two samples, suggesting that GRB/XRF-associated SNe are notnecessarily more luminous nor produce more $^{56}$Ni than local SNe. Based onthe current (limited) datasets, we find that the two samples may share asimilar $^{56}$Ni production mechanism.
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