The Afterglow, Energetics, and Host Galaxy of the Short-hard Gamma-ray Burst 051221a

Soderberg, A M; Berger, Edo; Kasliwal, M M; Frail, Dale A; Price, Paul Antony; Schmidt, Brian; Kulkarni, Shrinivas R; Fox, Derek B; Cenko, Stephen B; Gal-Yam, Avishay; Nakar, Ehud; Roth, K C

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The Afterglow, Energetics, and Host Galaxy of the Short-hard Gamma-ray Burst 051221a

Date

2006

Authors

Soderberg, A M

Berger, Edo

Kasliwal, M M

Frail, Dale A

Price, Paul Antony

Schmidt, Brian

Kulkarni, Shrinivas R

Fox, Derek B

Cenko, Stephen B

Gal-Yam, Avishay

Publisher

IOP Publishing

Abstract

We present detailed optical, X-ray, and radio observations of the bright afterglow of the short gamma-ray burst 051221 a obtained with Gemini, Swift XRT, and the Very Large Array, as well as optical spectra from which we measure the redshift of the burst,