GRB 081203A: Swift UVOT captures the earliest ultraviolet spectrum of a gamma-ray burst

被引：38

作者：

Kuin, N. P. M. ^{[1
]}

Landsman, W. ^{[2
]}

Page, M. J. ^{[1
]}

Schady, P. ^{[1
]}

Still, M. ^{[1
]}

Breeveld, A. A. ^{[1
]}

De Pasquale, M. ^{[1
]}

Roming, P. W. A. ^{[3
]}

Brown, P. J. ^{[3
]}

Carter, M. ^{[1
]}

James, C. ^{[1
]}

Curran, P. A. ^{[1
]}

Cucchiara, A. ^{[3
]}

Gronwall, C. ^{[3
]}

Holland, S. T. ^{[2
]}

Hoversten, E. A. ^{[3
]}

Hunsberger, S. ^{[3
]}

Kennedy, T. ^{[1
]}

Koch, S. ^{[3
]}

Lamoureux, H. ^{[1
]}

Marshall, F. E. ^{[2
]}

Oates, S. R. ^{[1
]}

Parsons, A. ^{[2
]}

Palmer, D. M. ^{[4
]}

Smith, P. J. ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Coll London, Mullard Space Sci Lab, Dorking RH5 6NT, Surrey, England

[2] NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA

[3] Penn State Univ, Dept Astron & Astrophys, University Pk, PA 16802 USA

[4] Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, NM 87545 USA

来源：

MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY | 2009年 / 395卷 / 01期

基金：

英国科学技术设施理事会;

关键词：

instrumentation: spectrographs; gamma-rays: bursts; TELESCOPE; DUST; ABSORPTION; GAS; SPECTROSCOPY; MISSION; STAR; HI;

D O I：

10.1111/j.1745-3933.2009.00632.x

中图分类号：

P1 [天文学];

学科分类号：

0704 ;

摘要：

We present the earliest ultraviolet (UV) spectrum of a gamma-ray burst (GRB) as observed with the Swift Ultra-Violet/Optical Telescope (UVOT). The GRB 081203A spectrum was observed for 50 s with the UV-grism starting 251 s after the Swift-Burst-Alert-Telescope (BAT) trigger. During this time, the GRB was approximate to 13.4 mag (u filter) and was still rising to its peak optical brightness. In the UV-grism spectrum, we find a damped Ly alpha line, Ly beta and the Lyman continuum break at a redshift z = 2.05 +/- 0.01. A model fit to the Lyman absorption implies a gas column density of log N-HI = 22.0 +/- 0.1 cm(-2), which is typical of GRB host galaxies with damped Ly alpha absorbers. This observation of GRB 081203A demonstrates that for brighter GRBs (v approximate to 14 mag) with moderate redshift (0.5 < z < 3.5) the UVOT is able to provide redshifts, and probe for damped Ly alpha absorbers within 4-6 min from the time of the Swift-BAT trigger.

引用

页码：L21 / L24

页数：4

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