A new population of ultra-long duration gamma-ray bursts

Levan, A.J. et al.-- Full list of authors: Levan, A. J.; Tanvir, N. R.; Starling, R. L. C.; Wiersema, K.; Page, K. L.; Perley, D. A.; Schulze, S.; Wynn, G. A.; Chornock, R.; Hjorth, J.; Cenko, S. B.; Fruchter, A. S.; O'Brien, P. T.; Brown, G. C.; Tunnicliffe, R. L.; Malesani, D.; Jakobsson, P.;...

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Authors: Levan, A.J., de Ugarte Postigo, A., Gorosabel, Javier, Sánchez Ramírez, Rubén, Thöne, Cristina Carina
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Keyword:Galaxies: distances and redshifts
Gamma-ray burst: general
Gamma-ray burst: individual (GRB 101225A, GRB 111209A, GRB 121027A)
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title A new population of ultra-long duration gamma-ray bursts
spellingShingle A new population of ultra-long duration gamma-ray bursts
Levan, A.J.
Galaxies: distances and redshifts
Gamma-ray burst: general
Gamma-ray burst: individual (GRB 101225A, GRB 111209A, GRB 121027A)
title_short A new population of ultra-long duration gamma-ray bursts
title_full A new population of ultra-long duration gamma-ray bursts
title_fullStr A new population of ultra-long duration gamma-ray bursts
title_full_unstemmed A new population of ultra-long duration gamma-ray bursts
title_sort A new population of ultra-long duration gamma-ray bursts
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Levan, A.J.
de Ugarte Postigo, A.
Gorosabel, Javier
Sánchez Ramírez, Rubén
Thöne, Cristina Carina
author Levan, A.J.
author_facet Levan, A.J.
de Ugarte Postigo, A.
Gorosabel, Javier
Sánchez Ramírez, Rubén
Thöne, Cristina Carina
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author2 de Ugarte Postigo, A.
Gorosabel, Javier
Sánchez Ramírez, Rubén
Thöne, Cristina Carina
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NASA
National Science Foundation (US)
National Research Council of Canada
Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica (Chile)
Australian Research Council
Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação (Brasil)
Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Productiva (Argentina)
Fondo de Innovación para la Competitividad (Chile)
European Research Council
European Commission
Agenzia Spaziale Italiana
UK Space Agency
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [https://ror.org/02gfc7t72]
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Galaxies: distances and redshifts
Gamma-ray burst: general
Gamma-ray burst: individual (GRB 101225A, GRB 111209A, GRB 121027A)
topic Galaxies: distances and redshifts
Gamma-ray burst: general
Gamma-ray burst: individual (GRB 101225A, GRB 111209A, GRB 121027A)
description Levan, A.J. et al.-- Full list of authors: Levan, A. J.; Tanvir, N. R.; Starling, R. L. C.; Wiersema, K.; Page, K. L.; Perley, D. A.; Schulze, S.; Wynn, G. A.; Chornock, R.; Hjorth, J.; Cenko, S. B.; Fruchter, A. S.; O'Brien, P. T.; Brown, G. C.; Tunnicliffe, R. L.; Malesani, D.; Jakobsson, P.; Watson, D.; Berger, E.; Bersier, D.; Cobb, B. E.; Covino, S.; Cucchiara, A.; de Ugarte Postigo, A.; Fox, D. B.; Gal-Yam, A.; Goldoni, P.; Gorosabel, J.; Kaper, L.; Krühler, T.; Karjalainen, R.; Osborne, J. P.; Pian, E.; Sánchez-Ramírez, R.; Schmidt, B.; Skillen, I.; Tagliaferri, G.; Thöne, C.; Vaduvescu, O.; Wijers, R. A. M. J.; Zauderer, B. A.
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spelling A new population of ultra-long duration gamma-ray burstsLevan, A.J.de Ugarte Postigo, A.Gorosabel, JavierSánchez Ramírez, RubénThöne, Cristina CarinaGalaxies: distances and redshiftsGamma-ray burst: generalGamma-ray burst: individual (GRB 101225A, GRB 111209A, GRB 121027A)Levan, A.J. et al.-- Full list of authors: Levan, A. J.; Tanvir, N. R.; Starling, R. L. C.; Wiersema, K.; Page, K. L.; Perley, D. A.; Schulze, S.; Wynn, G. A.; Chornock, R.; Hjorth, J.; Cenko, S. B.; Fruchter, A. S.; O'Brien, P. T.; Brown, G. C.; Tunnicliffe, R. L.; Malesani, D.; Jakobsson, P.; Watson, D.; Berger, E.; Bersier, D.; Cobb, B. E.; Covino, S.; Cucchiara, A.; de Ugarte Postigo, A.; Fox, D. B.; Gal-Yam, A.; Goldoni, P.; Gorosabel, J.; Kaper, L.; Krühler, T.; Karjalainen, R.; Osborne, J. P.; Pian, E.; Sánchez-Ramírez, R.; Schmidt, B.; Skillen, I.; Tagliaferri, G.; Thöne, C.; Vaduvescu, O.; Wijers, R. A. M. J.; Zauderer, B. A.We present comprehensive multiwavelength observations of three gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) with durations of several thousand seconds. We demonstrate that these events are extragalactic transients; in particular, we resolve the long-standing conundrum of the distance of GRB 101225A (the "Christmas-day burst"), finding it to have a redshift z = 0.847 and showing that two apparently similar events (GRB 111209A and GRB 121027A) lie at z = 0.677 and z = 1.773, respectively. The systems show extremely unusual X-ray and optical light curves, very different from classical GRBs, with long-lasting, highly variable X-ray emission and optical light curves that exhibit little correlation with the behavior seen in the X-ray. Their host galaxies are faint, compact, and highly star-forming dwarf galaxies, typical of "blue compact galaxies." We propose that these bursts are the prototypes of a hitherto largely unrecognized population of ultra-long GRBs, which while observationally difficult to detect may be astrophysically relatively common. The long durations may naturally be explained by the engine-driven explosions of stars of much larger radii than normally considered for GRB progenitors, which are thought to have compact Wolf-Rayet progenitor stars. However, we cannot unambiguously identify supernova signatures within their light curves or spectra. We also consider the alternative possibility that they arise from the tidal disruption of stars by massive black holes and conclude that the associated timescales are only consistent with the disruption of compact stars (e.g., white dwarfs) by black holes of relatively low mass (<105 M ⊙). © 2014. The American Astronomical Society.We thank D. A. Kann and the GROND team for sharing their photometric calibration and Jamie Kennea for providing information on the Swift slew strategy. A.J.L. acknowledges support from the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC, under grant ID ST/I001719/1) and is grateful to the Leverhulme Trust for a Philip Leverhulme Prize award. N.R.T., K.W., and P.T.O. thank STFC for support (grant ID ST/H001972/ 1). R.L.C.S. is supported by a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship. The Dark Cosmology Centre is supported by the DNRF. Based on observations made with ESO Telescopes at the La Silla Paranal Observatory under programme ID 288.D-5027. Support for programs 11734, 12438, and 12786 was provided by NASA through a grant from the Space Telescope Science Institute, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., under NASA contract NAS 5- 26555. Support for D.P. is provided by NASA through Hubble Fellowship grant HST-HF-51296.01-A awarded by the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), Inc., for NASA, under contract NAS 5-26555. Based on observations obtained at the Gemini Observatory, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., under a cooperative agreement with the NSF on behalf of the Gemini partnership: the National Science Foundation (United States), the National Research Council (Canada), CONICYT (Chile), the Australian Research Council (Australia), Ministerio da Ci ´ encia, Tecnologia e Inova¸ ˆ cao˜ (Brazil), and Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnolog´ıa e Innovacion´ Productiva (Argentina). These observations were obtained as part of programme IDs GN-2010B-Q-7, GN-2011A-Q-4, GS2011B-Q-7, GN-2011B-Q-34, and GS-2012A-Q-25. This work was made possible by contributions from Iniciativa Cientifica Milenio grant P10-064-F (Millennium Center for Supernova Science), with input from “Fondo de Innovacion para la Com- ´ petitividad, del Ministerio de Econom´ıa, Fomento y Turismo de Chile,” and Basal-CATA (PFB-06/2007). R.A.M.J.W. is supported by the ERC through advanced investigator grant no. 247295. Partly based on observations made with the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) at the Spanish Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos of the Instituto de Astrofsica de Canarias, La Palma under programme GTC43-11B, PI: C.C. Thone. A.dUP acknowledges support by the European Commis- ¨ sion under the Marie Curie Career Integration Grant programme (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-CIG 322307). C.C.T., J.G., and R.S.R. acknowledge support from AYA2010-21887-C04-01 (Estallidos) and AYA2011-24780/ESP. Observations reported here were obtained at the MMT Observatory, a joint facility of the Smithsonian Institution and the University of Arizona. This work made use of data supplied by the UK Swift Science Data Centre at the University of Leicester. S.C. and G.T. acknowledge support from ASI grant I/004/11/0. S.B.C. acknowledges generous financial assistance from Gary & Cynthia Bengier, the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund, the Christopher R. Redlich Fund, NASA/Swift grants NNX10AI21G and NNX12AD73G, the TABASGO Foundation, and NSF grant AST-1211916. J.P.O. acknowledges support from the UK Space Agency. E.B. acknowledges support from the National Science Foundation under Grant AST-1107973 and from NASA/Swift AO7 grant NNX12AD69G.Peer reviewedAmerican Astronomical SocietyScience and Technology Facilities Council (UK)NASANational Science Foundation (US)National Research Council of CanadaComisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica (Chile)Australian Research CouncilMinistério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação (Brasil)Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Productiva (Argentina)Fondo de Innovación para la Competitividad (Chile)European Research CouncilEuropean CommissionAgenzia Spaziale ItalianaUK Space AgencyConsejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [https://ror.org/02gfc7t72]202520252014info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501Postprintinfo:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersionhttp://hdl.handle.net/10261/400107reponame:DIGITAL.CSIC. 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