Session 158. GRB: Short Bursts and Panchromatic Observations

Oral, Wednesday, January 11, 2006, 2:00-3:30pm, Virginia

158.01 Are Short Gamma-ray Bursts Really Hard?

T. Sakamoto (GSFC/NRC), L. Barbier, S. Barthelmy (GSFC), J. Cummings (GSFC/NRC), E. Fenimore (LANL), N. Gehrels (GSFC), D. Hullinger (GSFC/UMD), H. Krimm (GSFC/USRA), C. Markwardt (GSFC/UMD), D. Palmer (LANL), A. Parsons (GSFC), G. Sato (ISAS), J. Tueller (GSFC), Swift-BAT Team

158.02 Short gamma ray bursts of an electromagnetic overcritical gravitational collapse

S.-S. Xue, R. Ruffini, F. Fraschetti, L. Vitagliano (ICRA, U. Romo, Italy)

158.03 Are the Properties of Host Galaxies of Short–Hard GRBs Consistent With an Origin of NS-NS Mergers?

E. Nakar, A. Gal-Yam (Caltech)

158.04 The Broadband Afterglow of a Short-Hard Gamma-Ray Burst

D. B. Fox (Penn State University), React GRB Team

158.05D Prompt Observations of Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglows with ROTSE-III

E. S. Rykoff (University of Michigan), ROTSE Collaboration

158.06 Swift\/ Panchromatic Observations of the Bright Gamma-Ray Burst GRB 050525A

S. T. Holland (NASA's GSFC & USRA), Swift Science Team