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Figure 3:
Bottom: histogram of the H I column density
measured in GRBs for which the redshift was large enough to detect Ly .
Bursts detected by Swift are filled while the pre-Swift sample
is hashed (Vreeswijk et al. 2004). The current range of known GRB
H I systems is
.
For
comparison, the QSO-DLAs (Prochaska et al. 2005) are overplotted
as the dashed histogram (normalized with respect to the GRB observations).
The solid, non-filled histogram shows the GRB
N(H I)
prediction by RP02. Top: the corresponding afterglow R-band magnitudes, corrected
for Galactic extinction (Schlegel et al. 1998), interpolated to a
common epoch of 12 hr (in the source restframe) and redshifted to z = 3.
GRBs 060210 and 060522 are omitted due to the lack of information on their
spectral energy distribution; hence corrections could not be made to account
for Ly absorption. Where the uncertainty on the H I column is
not reported in the literature, a value of 0.2 has been plotted. |