2018

GRB171205A/SN2017iuk: A local low-luminosity gamma-ray burst

D'Elia, V., Campana, S., D'Aì, A. et al.

Understand

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) occurring in the local Universe constitute an interesting sub-class of the GRB family, since their luminosity is on average lower than that of their cosmological analogs.

  • We aim to contribute to the study of local bursts by reporting the case of GRB 171205A.
  • This source was discovered by Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) on 2017, December 5 and soon associated with a low redshift host galaxy (z=0.037), and an emerging SN (SN 2017iuk).
  • We analyzed the full Swift, dataset, comprising the UV-Optical Telescope (UVOT), X-ray Telescope (XRT) and BAT data.

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