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Master's thesis defense by Ása Skúladóttir

DARK's Master's student, Ása Skúladóttir, will defend her thesis entitled "The Faint Afterglow Spectra of GRB 090809 and GRB 100425A" Thursday 28 October at 14:00.

Abstract:
The study of faint afterglow spectra from the gamma-ray bursts GRB 090809 and GRB 100425A is presented. The spectra are observed with a single target spectrograph, the X-Shooter, located at the Paranal Observatory in Chile. The metallicities of the host galaxies of the two gamma-ray bursts are determined. The results are then compared to known samples of gamma-ray bursts. This thesis also includes a description of a program written to automate
the reduction of X-Shooter science data, which is handled with the X-Shooter pipeline provided by ESO (European Organization for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere).

You can download the thesis here >>

Supervisor: Johan P. U. Fynbo
Co-supervisor: Paul Vreeswijk