Gamma-ray burst afterglows and the nature of their host galaxies.

Thesis

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1 Introduction

2 An unusual supernova in the error box of the -ray burst of 25 April 1998

3 The X-ray, optical and infrared counterpart to GRB 980703

4 VLT spectroscopy of GRB 990510 and GRB 990712; probing the faint and bright end of the GRB host galaxy population

5 The star-formation rate in the host of GRB 990712

6 Afterglow spectroscopy and host galaxy imaging of GRB 991216

7 The morphology of GRB host galaxies

8 The Faint Sky Variability Survey I: Outline, Goals and Data reduction process

9 The Faint Sky Variability Survey II: Constraining the collimation of -ray bursts

Nederlandse samenvatting

List of publications

Dankwoord

Bibliography

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