A Search for Optical Afterglow from GRB970828
Astrophysics
2008-11-26 v1
Abstract
We report on the results of R band observations of the error box of the gamma-ray burst of August 28, 1997, made between 4 hours and 8 days after this burst occurred. No counterpart was found varying by more than 0.2 magnitudes down to R = 23.8. We discuss the consequences of this non-detection for relativistic blast wave models of gamma-ray bursts, and the possible effect of redshift on the relation between optical absorption and the low-energy cut off in the X-ray afterglow spectrum.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9711171,
title = {A Search for Optical Afterglow from GRB970828},
author = {Paul J. Groot and T. Galama and J. van Paradijs and C. Kouveliotou},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9711171},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
15 pages including 3 figures, LaTeX, accepted by ApJL, Nov. 13, 1997