The case for a high-redshift origin of GRB 100205A

Author:

Chrimes A A1ORCID,Levan A J12,Stanway E R1ORCID,Berger E3,Bloom J S4,Cenko S B56,Cobb B E7,Cucchiara A8,Fruchter A S9,Gompertz B P1,Hjorth J10,Jakobsson P11,Lyman J D1,O’Brien P12,Perley D A13ORCID,Tanvir N R12,Wheatley P J1ORCID,Wiersema K1

Affiliation:

1. Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK

2. Department of Astrophysics/IMAPP, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

3. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA

4. Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA

5. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 8800 Greenbelt Road, Greenbelt, DMD 20771, USA

6. Joint Space-Science Institute, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA

7. Department of Physics, The George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052, USA

8. College of Science and Mathematics, University of the Virgin Islands, #2 Brewers Bay Road, Charlotte Amalie, USVI 00802

9. Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA

10. Dark Cosmology Centre, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Juliane Maries Vej 30, DK-2100 Copenhagen ø, Denmark

11. Centre for Astrophysics and Cosmology, Science Institute, University of Iceland, Dunhagi 5, 107 Reykjavik, Iceland

12. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK

13. Astrophysics Research Institute, Liverpool John Moores University, 146 Brownlow Hill, Liverpool L3 5RF, UK

Abstract

Abstract The number of long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) known to have occurred in the distant Universe (z > 5) is small (∼15); however, these events provide a powerful way of probing star formation at the onset of galaxy evolution. In this paper, we present the case for GRB 100205A being a largely overlooked high-redshift event. While initially noted as a high-z candidate, this event and its host galaxy have not been explored in detail. By combining optical and near-infrared Gemini afterglow imaging (at t < 1.3 d since burst) with deep late-time limits on host emission from the Hubble Space Telescope, we show that the most likely scenario is that GRB 100205A arose in the range 4 < z < 8. GRB 100205A is an example of a burst whose afterglow, even at ∼1 h post burst, could only be identified by 8-m class IR observations, and suggests that such observations of all optically dark bursts may be necessary to significantly enhance the number of high-redshift GRBs known.

Funder

Science and Technology Facilities Council

National Science Foundation

Consejo Nacional de Innovación, Ciencia y Tecnología

Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Productiva

Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação

Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

European Society of Anaesthesiology

Space Telescope Science Institute

University of Leicester

University of Hawaii

Johns Hopkins University

Durham University

University of Edinburgh

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

University of Maryland

Eotvos Lorand University

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Subject

Space and Planetary Science,Astronomy and Astrophysics

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