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The Nature of the Host Galaxy of GRB 010222

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Lighthouses of the Universe: The Most Luminous Celestial Objects and Their Use for Cosmology

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The absorption lines in the spectrum of the afterglow of gamma-ray burst GRB 010222 indicate that its host galaxy, at z = 1.48, is an exceptionally strong damped Lyman-\(\alpha\) (DLA) system. We present arguments that the host galaxies of other long-duration, bright GRBs likely fulfill the criteria of DLA systems as well.

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  1. Astronomical Institute ‘Anton Pannekoek’, Univ. Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Isabel Salamanca, Paul M. Vreeswijk, Lex Kaper, Evert Rol & Edward P. J. van den Heuvel

  2. Department of Physical Science, Univ. Hertfordshire, UK

    Nial Tanvir

  3. European Southern Observatory, Santiago, Chile

    Sara Ellison

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  1. Isabel Salamanca
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Marat Gilfanov Rashid Sunyeav Eugene Churazov

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Salamanca, I. et al. The Nature of the Host Galaxy of GRB 010222. In: Gilfanov, M., Sunyeav, R., Churazov, E. (eds) Lighthouses of the Universe: The Most Luminous Celestial Objects and Their Use for Cosmology. ESO ASTROPHYSICS SYMPOSIA. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/10856495_27

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