No supernovae associated with two long-duration gamma-ray bursts

J P U Fynbo; Darach Watson; C C Thone; Jesper Sollerman; J S Bloom; T M Davis; Jens Hjorth; P Jakobsson; U G Jorgensen; J F Graham; A S Fruchter; D Bersier; L Kewley; A Cassan; J M C Ceron; Suzanne Foley; J Gorosabel; T C Hinse; Keith Douglas Horne; B L Jensen; Sylvio Klose; D Kocevski; Jean-Baptiste Marquette; D Perley; E Ramirez-Ruiz; M D Stritzinger; Paul M Vreeswijk; R A M Wijers; K G Woller; Dong Xu; Marta Zub

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No supernovae associated with two long-duration gamma-ray bursts

J P U Fynbo, Darach Watson, C C Thone, Jesper Sollerman, J S Bloom, T M Davis, Jens Hjorth, P Jakobsson, U G Jorgensen, J F Graham, A S Fruchter, D Bersier, L Kewley, A Cassan, J M C Ceron, Suzanne Foley, J Gorosabel, T C Hinse, Keith Douglas Horne, B L JensenSylvio Klose, D Kocevski, Jean-Baptiste Marquette, D Perley, E Ramirez-Ruiz, M D Stritzinger, Paul M Vreeswijk, R A M Wijers, K G Woller, Dong Xu, Marta Zub

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It is now accepted that long-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are produced during the collapse of a massive star(1,2). The standard 'collapsar' model(3) predicts that a broad-lined and luminous type Ic core-collapse supernova accompanies every long- duration GRB(4). This association has been confirmed in observations of several nearby GRBs(5-9). Here we report that GRB 060505 ( ref. 10) and GRB 060614 ( ref. 11) were not accompanied by supernova emission down to limits hundreds of times fainter than the archetypal supernova SN 1998bw that accompanied GRB 980425, and fainter than any type Ic supernova ever observed(12). Multi-band observations of the early afterglows, as well as spectroscopy of the host galaxies, exclude the possibility of significant dust obscuration and show that the bursts originated in actively star-forming regions. The absence of a supernova to such deep limits is qualitatively different from all previous nearby long- duration GRBs and suggests a new phenomenological type of massive stellar death.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1047
Number of pages	1047
Journal	Nature
Volume	444
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/nature05375
Publication status	Published - 21 Dec 2006

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COLLAPSE
LIGHT
DISKS
HST

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Fynbo, J. P. U., Watson, D., Thone, C. C., Sollerman, J., Bloom, J. S., Davis, T. M., Hjorth, J., Jakobsson, P., Jorgensen, U. G., Graham, J. F., Fruchter, A. S., Bersier, D., Kewley, L., Cassan, A., Ceron, J. M. C., Foley, S., Gorosabel, J., Hinse, T. C., Horne, K. D., ... Zub, M. (2006). No supernovae associated with two long-duration gamma-ray bursts. Nature, 444, 1047. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature05375

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