Can optical afterglows be used to discriminate between Type I and Type II GRBs?
arXiv:0808.3221 · doi:10.1063/1.3027965
Abstract
The precise localization of short/hard (Type I) gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) in recent years has answered many questions but raised even more. I present some results of a systematic study of the optical afterglows of long/soft (Type II) and short/hard (Type I) GRBs, focusing on the optical luminosity as another puzzle piece in the classification of GRBs.
7 Pages, 2 figures, to be published in the "2008 Nanjing GRB Conference" conference proceedings, figures have been downsampled