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25 April 2024

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GRB 090426: The Environment of a Rest-Frame 0.35-second Gamma-Ray Burst at Redshift z=2.609
Emily M. Levesque ; Joshua S. Bloom ; Nathaniel R. Butler ; Daniel A. Perley ; S. Bradley Cenko ; J. Xavier Prochaska ; Lisa J. Kewley ; Andrew Bunker ; Hsiao-Wen Chen ; Ryan Chornock ; Alexei V. Filippenko ; Karl Glazebrook ; Sebastian Lopez ; Joseph Masiero ; Maryam Modjaz ; Adam N. Morgan ; Dovi Poznanski ;
Date:	9 Jul 2009
Abstract:	We present the discovery of an absorption-line redshift of z = 2.609 for GRB 090426, establishing the first firm lower limit to a redshift for a gamma-ray burst with an observed duration of <2 s. With a rest-frame burst duration of T_90z = 0.35 s and a detailed examination of the peak energy of the event, we suggest that this is likely (at >90% confidence) a member of the short/hard phenomenological class of GRBs. From analysis of the optical-afterglow spectrum we find that the burst originated along a very low HI column density sightline, with N_HI < 3.2 x 10^19 cm^-2. Our GRB 090426 afterglow spectrum also appears to have weaker low-ionisation absorption (Si II, C II) than ~95% of previous afterglow spectra. Finally, we also report the discovery of a blue, very luminous, star-forming putative host galaxy (~2 L*) at a small angular offset from the location of the optical afterglow. We consider the implications of this unique GRB in the context of burst duration classification and our understanding of GRB progenitor scenarios.
Source:	arXiv, 0907.1661
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