A RADIO-SELECTED SAMPLE OF GAMMA-RAY BURST AFTERGLOWS

Chandra, Poonam ; Frail, Dale A. (2012) A RADIO-SELECTED SAMPLE OF GAMMA-RAY BURST AFTERGLOWS The Astrophysical Journal, 746 (2). p. 156. ISSN 0004-637X

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Official URL: http://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/746/2/156

Related URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/746/2/156

Abstract

We present a catalog of radio afterglow observations of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) over a 14 year period from 1997 to 2011. Our sample of 304 afterglows consists of 2995 flux density measurements (including upper limits) at frequencies between 0.6 GHz and 660 GHz, with the majority of data taken at 8.5 GHz frequency band (1539 measurements). We use this data set to carry out a statistical analysis of the radio-selected sample. The detection rate of radio afterglows has stayed unchanged almost at 31% before and after the launch of the Swift satellite. The canonical long-duration GRB radio light curve at 8.5 GHz peaks at three to six days in the source rest frame, with a median peak luminosity of 1031 erg s−1 Hz−1. The peak radio luminosities for short-hard bursts, X-ray flashes, and the supernova–GRB classes are an order of magnitude or more fainter than this value. There are clear relationships between the detectability of a radio afterglow and the fluence or energy of a GRB, and the X-ray or optical brightness of the afterglow. However, we find few significant correlations between these same GRB and afterglow properties and the peak radio flux density. We also produce synthetic light curves at centimeter and millimeter bands using a range of blast wave and microphysics parameters derived from multiwavelength afterglow modeling, and we use them to compare to the radio sample. Finding agreement, we extrapolate this behavior to predict the centimeter and millimeter behavior of GRBs observed by the Expanded Very Large Array and the Atacama Large Millimeter Array.

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Keywords:cosmology: observations; gamma-ray burst: general; hydrodynamics; radio continuum: general; Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
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