GRB 2012
May 7-11, 2012
Munich, Germany
published September 20, 2012
Munich, Germany
published September 20, 2012
It is a pleasure to announce the next combined Fermi/Swift GRB conference covering recent advances in all aspects of gamma-ray burst observations and theory. This conference will be held in Munich, Germany, on 7-11 May 2012, and follows similar previous combined Fermi/Swift meetings in Huntsville (Oct. 2008) and Annapolis (Nov. 2010).
Gamma-ray bursts are the most energetic explosions in the Universe and are thought to be the birth signatures of black holes. This is an exciting time in the GRB field as various missions provide a wealth of new data on this still puzzling phenomenon. The Fermi misson provides unprecedented spectral coverage over 7 decades in energy, and among others discovered new spectral components which challenge our standard picture of the prompt emission. The Swift mission continuous to swiftly monitor and locate GRBs in multiple wavebands, providing the basis for all ground-based follow-up observations towards redshift measurements and afterglow and host property investigations. AGILE, INTEGRAL, Suzaku and Konus continue to provide crucial information on GRB properties, and the MAXI mission provides an all sky X-ray monitoring of transients. There is also growing capability for follow-up observations by ground-based telescopes at basically all wavelengths. Besides the classical optical/infrared/radio observations, searches are underway for TeV emission, neutrinos and gravitational waves. Moreover, new experiments are expected to have returned first data, among others POGO on the prompt polarization properties, UFFO on very early optical emission, or ALMA on sub-millimeter properties. And last but not least, the unexpected is bringing us child-like astonishments at least once per year with a "GRB-trigger" which turns out to be not related to GRBs. Complementing all these new observational results, a huge theoretical effort is underway to understand the GRB phenomenon and keep up with the constant new puzzles coming from the data.
This conference will bring together astrophysicists, neutrino physicists and gravitational wave scientists to discuss the latest data and theories, to build synergistic collaborations between the fields and across wavelengths, and beyond better understanding the GRB phenomenon to develop GRBs as a powerful probe of a variety of fundamental questions in present-day research.
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Preface
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| Session I: Recent results from Swift and Fermi |
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Welcome Remarks
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Swift: Status and Recent Results
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Fermi-LAT Recent Results on Gamma-Ray Bursts
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Scientific highlights from the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor
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| Session II: Prompt Emission |
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The Fermi Era: Towards a better understanding of the GRB prompt emission
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Rest-frame properties of GRBs observed by Fermi/GBM
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Bright High-Energy GRBs detected with Fermi GBM
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Prompt spectral properties of a complete sample of Swift Gamma-Ray Bursts
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Theory of the Gamma-ray Burst Prompt Emission
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The Photosphere in Gamma-Ray Bursts: Lessons Learned from Fermi
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Photospheric Emission in Fermi Gamma Ray Bursts
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The High Energy Behavior of Gamma-ray Burst Spectra as Observed by Fermi GBM and LAT
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The E$_\mathrm{p}$ - E$_{\rm iso}$ relation: intrinsic GRB property or/and selection effects?
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GRBs have preferred jet opening angles and bulk Lorentz factors
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On the reliability of spectral-energy correlations in GRBs
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On The Lack of Time Dilation Signatures in Gamma-ray Burst Light Curves
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Energy-dependent Spectral Lags of Fermi-GBM GRBs
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Study of emission mechanism of Gamma-Ray Bursts by the gamma-ray polarization with IKAROS-GAP
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Broadband observations of GRB110731A with Fermi, Swift, GROND and MOA
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GRB observations at very high energies with the MAGIC telescopes
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Multi-GeV lightcurves: possible hints for the emission mechanism
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Searching For Low Energy Deviations In GRB Spectra With GBM
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Search for extended emission in Fermi/GBM GRBs
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A Study of Gamma-Ray Bursts with extended emission observed with BATSE
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GRB Spectral Lags in The Source Frame: An Investigation of Fermi-GBM Bursts
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Long and short high energy components presented in GRBs
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Radiation from shock-accelerated particles
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The IPN Supplement to the Fermi GBM 2-year Catalog
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The observation of Gamma Ray Bursts with AGILE
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The Fermi GBM Gamma-Ray Burst Catalog: Years Three & Four
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Variability Time Scales of GRBs
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Average Power Density Spectrum of long GRBs in the Swift Era
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GRBs in the comoving frame: interpreting the spectral-energy correlations
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Untriggered Swift-GRBs in Fermi/GBM data
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Monte Carlo Simulation of Thermal Radiation from Relativistic Media
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Searching for galactic sources in the Swift GRB catalog
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Boolean Factor Analysis of Swift GRB Data
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GRB 080407: an ultra-long burst discovered by the IPN
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Where is the photospheric emission in GRBs ?
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The proto-black hole concept in GRB 101023 and its possible extension to GRB 110709B.
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Needs for a new GRB classification following the fireshell model: "genuine short", "disguised short" and "long" GRBs
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Canonical GRBs: the long, the disguised short and the short, and their cosmic distances.
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The Fermi GBM Gamma-Ray Burst Spectral Catalog: The First Two Years
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Classification of Fermi and Swift GRBs.
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Evidence for the observation of the first genuine short GRB and theoretical inference of its cosmological redshift.
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Curvature Effects in GRBs
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Fermi-LAT Stacking Analysis of Swift-XRT Localized GRBs
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Evidence of Deterministic Components in the Apparent Randomness of GRBs: Clues of a Chaotic Dynamic
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Background fitting of Fermi gamma-ray burst 091030613
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Short X-ray Transients detected by MAXI/GSC
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Constraints on the optical precursor to the naked-eye burst GRB080319B from 'Pi of the Sky' observations
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| Session III: Afterglows |
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Scaling Properties of Afterglow Radiation
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Multidimensional numerical simulations in the afterglow phase
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Relativistic MHD Simulations of Magnetic Fields in Jets of GRBs
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Simulations of GRB Jets in a Stratified External Medium
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Observational Aspects of Gamma-ray Burst Afterglows
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Probing GRB afterglows with deep linear and circular polarimetry
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An intrinsic correlation between GRB optical/UV afterglow brightness and decay rate
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The prompt-afterglow connection in Gamma-Ray Bursts: a comprehensive statistical analysis of Swift X-ray light-curves
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Gamma-ray burst afterglows as probes of the ISM
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Origin of the X-ray absorption in GRBs
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Short GRB Broad-band Afterglow Observations: Beaming, Densities and Energetics
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Statistical Connection between the prompt and X-ray afterglow emission of Swift detected GRBs
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Jet model fits to GRB light curves
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Afterglow emission in the context of an 'one-zone' radiation-acceleration model
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GRB100814A - a member of the growing set of bursts with sudden optical rebrightening
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Comparing the physical parameters of the intermediate and long GRB optical afterglows
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A universal scaling for short and long gamma-ray bursts: $E_{\rm X,iso}$-$E_{\rm \gamma,iso}$-$E_{\rm pk}$
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A complete sample of bright long GRBs discovered by Swift
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The strong MgII absorbers mystery: a complete statistical sample
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Identifying the Location in the Host Galaxy from a Short GRB 111117A by the Chandra Sub-arcsecond Position
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The propagation of relativistic jets triggered by tidal disruption of stars in quiescent supermassive black holes
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Exploring the Nature of Gamma-ray Burst Shallow Decay
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Searching for late-time hard X-ray emission of Swift GRBs
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Energetic Fermi/LAT GRB100414A: Energetic and Correlations
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Optical Afterglows and IGM Attenuation
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Late-time observations of the X-ray afterglow of GRB 060729
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| Session IV: GRBs as Probes of the Early Universe |
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High-redshift Gamma-ray Bursts
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Pulse spectral evolution of GRBs: implication as standard candle
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Difficulties in using GRBs as Standard Candles
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Galaxy counterparts of high-z sub-DLAs/DLAs towards GRBs
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Gamma-ray Bursts as Probes of the First Stars
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Pop III GRBs: an estimative of the event rate for future surveys
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The long gamma-ray burst rate and the correlation with host galaxy properties
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Probing Cosmic Radiation Fields and Magnetic Fields in the Reionization Epoch with Hard X-rays and MeV-GeV Gamma Rays from High-z GRBs
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Search for properties of Gamma-Ray Bursts at known large redshifts
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The mystery of the missing GRB redshifts
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A Significant Problem With Using the Amati Relation for cosmological Purposes
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Clustering of galaxies near GRB afterglows
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Probing the Cosmic Gamma-Ray Burst Rate in the Swift Era
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| Session V: Progenitors and Central Engine |
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The supernovae of gamma-ray bursts
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Collapsar and Magnetar Models for Long-Duration Gamma-Ray Bursts
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Binary Progenitors for Long-Duration Gamma-Ray Bursts
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Breaks and flares in long gamma-ray bursts from massive binaries
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The multi-messenger picture of compact binary mergers
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Energy injection in short GRBs and the role of magnetars
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Model of the extended emission of short gamma-ray bursts
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GRB central engine, jet formation and propagation
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Constraints to the GRB central engine from jet penetrability to massive stars
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Unveiling long lasting central engine activity with Optical-NIR afterglows
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Natal kicks of stellar-mass black holes
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Chemical properties of long gamma-ray bursts progenitors in cosmological simulations
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LGRBs beaming features and SNIb/c connection in the light of the Second Swift BAT Catalog
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Late-time light curves of GRB associated supernovae
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Late time X-ray emission from SN2010bh
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Mass transfer in compact binaries
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Unusual Central Engine Activity in the Double Burst GRB 110709B
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Magnetorotational supernovae and gamma-ray bursts.
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Metallicity effects on the cosmic SNIb/c and GRB rates
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| Session VI: History and Future Instrumentation |
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The Initial Gamma Ray Transient Studies
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The History and Legacy of BATSE
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The Interplanetary Network Database
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Cosmic gamma-ray bursts studies with Ioffe Institute Konus experiments
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GRB experiments on-board of "Lomonosov" satellite
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Observing transients with LOFAR and AARTFAAC
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Hunting for Gamma Ray Bursts with Pi of the Sky telescopes in Chile and Spain
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The HAWC experiment and its sensitivity to gamma-ray bursts
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The UFFO Pathfinder mission on Lomonosov for fast GRB X-ray and optical location
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The Ultra-Fast Flash Observatory Program : Pathfinder and Beyond
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The investigation of Gamma Ray Bursts with the Large Observatory for x-ray Timing (LOFT)
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Study of Saturn's Ring System Observed from National Observatory, Nepal
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| Session VII: Grav. Waves, Neutrinos, Cosmic Rays and UHE Emission |
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GRBs at Neutrino Telescopes
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Neutrinos from GRBs, and the connection to gamma-ray observations
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Gravitational Waves from Gamma-ray Bursts
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The Swift short gamma-ray burst rate density: implications for detecting neutron star mergers by ALIGO
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Hadronic processes as origin of TeV emission in Fanaroff & Riley Class I: Cen A, M87 and NGC1275
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Neutrinos and Gamma Rays from the First Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays in the Universe
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Gamma Ray Burst Cosmology with Gravitational Waves
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Recent IceCube Results from Searches for Transient Neutrino Sources
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| Session VIII: Host Galaxies |
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TOUGH: Observational Aspects of Gamma-ray Burst Host Galaxies
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Gamma-ray Burst Host Galaxies as Probes of Galaxy Formation and Evolution
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The Host Galaxies of Dust-Obscured Gamma-Ray Bursts
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The Italian-French X-shooter GRB host program: status and updates
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The host galaxies of short bursts
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GRB 100206A: The first short GRB associated with recent star-formation?
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The Redshift Distribution of the TOUGH sample
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The host galaxies of dark bursts
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