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Soft X-ray absorption excess in gamma-ray burst afterglow spectra: Absorption by turbulent ISM
Authors
R. Diehl
A. Gatto
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J. Greiner
M.~G.~H. Krause
S. Savaglio
P. Schady
M. Tanga
S. Walch
Publication date
24 October 2017
Publisher
'EDP Sciences'
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This is the accepted manuscript version of the following article: M. Tanga, P. Schady, A. Gatto, J. Greiner, M. G. H. Krause, R. Diehl, S. Savaglio, and S. Walch, ‘Soft X-ray absorption excess in gamma-ray burst afterglow spectra: Absorption by turbulent ISM’ Astronomy & Astrophysics, Vol 595, November 2016, A24. The final, published version is available online at doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527961 Reproduced with permission from Astronomy & Astrophysics. © 2018 ESO.Two-thirds of long duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) show soft X-ray absorption in excess of the Milky Way. The column densities of metals inferred from UV and optical spectra differ from those derived from soft X-ray spectra, at times by an order of magnitude, with the latter being higher. The origin of the soft X-ray absorption excess observed in GRB X-ray afterglow spectra remains a heavily debated issue, which has resulted in numerous investigations on the effect of hot material both internal and external to the GRB host galaxy on our X-ray afterglow observations. Nevertheless, all models proposed so far have either only been able to account for a subset of our observations (i.e. at z > 2), or they have required fairly extreme conditions to be present within the absorbing material. In this paper, we investigate the absorption of the GRB afterglow by a collisionally ionised and turbulent interstellar medium (ISM). We find that a dense (3 per cubic centimeters) collisionally ionised ISM could produce UV/optical and soft X-ray absorbing column densities that differ by a factor of 10, however the UV/optical and soft X-ray absorbing column densities for such sightlines and are 2-3 orders of magnitude lower in comparison to the GRB afterglow spectra. For those GRBs with a larger soft X-ray excess of up to an order of magnitude, the contribution in absorption from a turbulent ISM as considered here would ease the required conditions of additional absorbing components, such as the GRB circumburst medium and intergalactic medium.Peer reviewedFinal Accepted Versio
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