A Search for Short Time-Scale Optical Variability in the GRB 030329 Afterglow
Astrophysics
2009-11-10 v1
Abstract
We present a densely sampled R-band light curve of the optical afterglow of GRB 030329 obtained during the period 15.5-23 hours after the burst. This dataset allows us to search for short time-scale fluctuations that must be present at some level due to inhomogeneities in the circumburst medium and/or if the afterglow is intrinsically variable.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0312180,
title = {A Search for Short Time-Scale Optical Variability in the GRB 030329 Afterglow},
author = {N. Mirabal and J. P. Halpern and M. Bureau and K. Fathi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0312180},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
2 pages, 1 figure, to appear in the proceedings of the 2003 GRB Conference