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GRB 060614

Event type	Gamma-ray burst
Constellation	Indus
Right ascension	21 23 27.0
Declination	−53° 02′ 02″
Distance	1,600,000,000 ly (490,000,000 pc)
Source	Host Galaxy
Other designations	GRB 060614
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GRB 060614 was a gamma-ray burst detected by the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory on June 14, 2006, with peculiar properties. It challenged a previously held scientific consensus on gamma-ray burst progenitors and black holes.

Prior to this detection, it was believed that a long gamma-ray burst, like GRB 060614, was probably caused by gravitational collapse of a large star into a black hole, and would be accompanied by detectable supernova, whilst short gamma-ray bursts were thought to be the merger of two neutron stars. However, the lack of any supernova and the vanishing spectral lags during GRB 060614 are typical of short GRBs, at odds with the long (102s) duration of this event and its origin in a galaxy 1.6 billion light years away in the constellation Indus.

In December 2006, an article on the burst was published in the journal Nature, with the editors describing a hunt by scientists to define a new GRB classification system to account for this burst. GRB 060614 was subsequently classified as a "hybrid gamma-ray burst", defined as a long burst without accompanying supernova.

References

1. "Newfound diversity in gamma-ray bursts". UC Berkeley News. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
2. "NASA Satellite Discovers New Kind of Black Hole Explosion". NASA. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
3. "Hybrids in the Universe?". NASA. Archived from the original on 2 December 2020. Retrieved 13 April 2019.
4. Gehrels, N.; Norris, J. P.; Barthelmy, S. D.; Granot, J.; Kaneko, Y.; Kouveliotou, C.; Markwardt, C. B.; Mészáros, P.; Nakar, E.; Nousek, J. A.; O'Brien, P. T.; Page, M.; Palmer, D. M.; Parsons, A. M.; Roming, P. W. A.; Sakamoto, T.; Sarazin, C. L.; Schady, P.; Stamatikos, M.; Woosley, S. E. (2006). "A new γ-ray burst classification scheme from GRB 060614". Nature. 444 (7122): 1044–1046. arXiv:astro-ph/0610635. Bibcode:2006Natur.444.1044G. doi:10.1038/nature05376. PMID 17183315. S2CID 117969802.
5. Ratcliffe, Martin (February 2008). State of the Universe 2008 : new images, discoveries and events. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 57. ISBN 978-0-387-73998-4.

External links

• NASA Satellite Discovers New Kind of Black Hole Explosion
• GRB 060614 entry at SIMBAD

v t e Constellation of Indus
List of stars in Indus Indus in Chinese astronomy
Stars	Bayer α (the Persian) β γ δ ε ζ η θ ι κ κ μ ο π ρ Variable T HR 8269 8331 Other ASASSN-V J213939.3-702817.4 LHS 3844 WASP-46 WASP-88
Exoplanets LHS 3844 b (Kua'kua) ε Indi Ab ρ Indi b
Galaxies	NGC 6984 7002 7004 7007 7014 7022 7029 7038 7041 B 7049 7061 7064 7083 7090 7096 7124 7191 7196 7199 Other ESO 146-5 ESO 235-58 IC 5152
Galaxy clusters Abell 3742 SPT-CL J2106-5844
Astronomical events ASASSN-15lh GRB 060614 GRB 100621A
Category

• Astronomical objects discovered in 2006
• Indus (constellation)
• June 2006 events
• Gamma-ray bursts