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A&A
Volume 424, Number 3, September IV 2004
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Page(s) | 833 - 839 | |
Section | Extragalactic astronomy | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20035921 | |
Published online | 06 September 2004 |
On the constraining observations of the dark GRB 001109 and the properties of a z = 0.398 radio selected starburst galaxy contained in its error box*
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Real Instituto y Observatorio de la Armada, Sección de Astronomía, 11.110 San Fernando-Naval (Cádiz), Spain e-mail: josemari@alumni.nd.edu
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Space Telescope Science Institute, 3.700 San Martín Dr., Baltimore MD 21.218–2.463, USA e-mail: gorosabel@stsci.edu
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Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC), Camino Bajo de Huétor, 24, 18.008 Granada, Spain e-mail: [jgu;ajct;ute]@iaa.es
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Danish Space Research Institute, Juliane Maries Vej 30, 2100 København Ø, Denmark; e-mail: jgu@dsri.dk
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Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhnij Arkhyz, 357 147 Karachai-Cherkessia, Russia;e-mail: [sokolov;vafan;timur;dodo;vkom]@sao.ru
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Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Mikhail Vasil'evich Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, 119 899 Leninskie Gory, Russia; e-mail: [cher;moulin]@sai.msu.su
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Max Planck Institut für extraterrestrische Physik, Giessenbachstraße, Postfach 1312, 85 741 Garching, Germany e-mail: jcg@mpe.mpg.de
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Thüringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg, 07 778 Tautenburg, Germany; e-mail: klose@tls-tautenburg.de
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Astronomical Observatory, University of Copenhagen, Juliane Maries Vej 30, 2100 København Ø, Denmark e-mail: [jgu;jens;holger;brian_j]@astro.ku.dk
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Institute of Physics and Astronomy, University of Århus, Ny Munkegade, 8000 Århus C, Denmark e-mail: jfynbo@phys.au.dk
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Astronomical Institute Anton Pannekoek, University of Amsterdam, Kruislaan 403, 1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands e-mail: evert@science.uva.nl
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Universitäts-Sternwarte München, Scheinerstraße 1, 81 679 München, Germany e-mail: [fliri;feulner]@usm.uni-muenchen.de
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Max Planck Institut für Astronomie, Königstuhl 17, 69 117 Heidelberg, Germany; e-mail: mfeldt@mpia-hd.mpg.de
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Astrophysikalisches Institut, An der Sternwarte 16, 14 482 Potsdam, Germany; e-mail: mandersen@aip.de
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Sci-SA Department, ESTEC-ESA, Keplerlaan 1, Postbus 299, 2200 AG Noordwijk, The Netherlands e-mail: dperez@rssd.esa.int
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US Naval Observatory, Flagstaff Station, PO Box 1.149, Flagstaff AZ 86.002-1.149, USA e-mail: [fjv;ahenden]@nofs.navy.mil
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Universities Space Research Association
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Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, c/. vía Láctea, s/n, 38.200 La Laguna (Tenerife), Spain e-mail: gil@iac.es
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Department of Physical Sciences, University of Hertfordshire, College Lane, Hatfield, Herts GB–AL10 9AB, UK e-mail: nrt@star.herts.ac.uk
Received:
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December
2003
Accepted:
4
June
2004
We present optical and NIR (near infrared) follow up observations of the GRB 001109 from 1 to 300 days after the burst. No transient emission was found at these wavelengths within this GRB's (Gamma Ray Burst) 50´´ radius BeppoSAX error box. Strong limits (3σ) are set with: , 10.2 h after the GRB;
, 11.4 h after the GRB;
, 9.9 h after the GRB; and
, 9.6 h after the GRB. We discuss whether the radio source found in the GRB's error box ([CITE]) might be related to the afterglow. We also present a multiwavelength study of a reddened starburst galaxy, found coincident with the potential radio and the X-ray afterglow. We show that our strong I band upper limit makes of the GRB 001109 the darkest one localised by the BeppoSAX's NFI (Narrow Field Instrument), and it is one of the most constraining upper limits on GRB afterglows to date. Further to it, the implications of these observations in the context of dark GRBs are considered.
Key words: gamma rays: bursts / Galaxy: fundamental parameters / techniques: photometric
Based on observations made with telescopes at the Centro Astronómico Hispano Alemán (1.23 m + 3.50 m), at the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos (NOT + WHT), at the United States Naval Observatory (1.00 m) and at the Russian Academy of Sciences's Special Astrophysical Observatory (6.05 m). The NOT is operated on the island of San Miguel de la Palma jointly by Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, in Spain's Observatorio del Roque de los Muchahos of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias. The Centro Astronómico Hispano Alemán is operated in Calar Alto by the Max-Planck Institut für Astronomie of Heidelberg, jointly with Spain's Comisión Nacional de Astronomía.
© ESO, 2004
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