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ALMA and RATIR observations of GRB131030A

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2017-02-01 v1

Abstract

We report on the first open-use based Atacama Large Millimeter/submm Array (ALMA) 345-GHz observation for the late afterglow phase of GRB131030A. The ALMA observation constrained a deep limit at 17.1 d for the afterglow and host galaxy. We also identified a faint submillimeter source (ALMAJ2300-0522) near the GRB131030A position. The deep limit at 345 GHz and multifrequency observations obtained using {\it Swift} and RATIR yielded forward shock modeling with a two-dimensional relativistic hydrodynamic jet simulation and described X-ray excess in the afterglow. The excess was inconsistent with the synchrotron self-inverse Compton radiation from the forward shock. The host galaxy of GRB131030A and optical counterpart of ALMAJ2300-0522 were also identified in the SUBARU image. Based on the deep ALMA limit for the host galaxy, the 3-σ\sigma upper limits of IR luminosity and the star formation rate (SFR) is estimated as LIR<1.11×1011LL_{IR}<1.11\times10^{11} L_{\odot} and SFR<18.7<18.7 (MM_{\odot}~yr1^{-1}), respectively. Although the separation angle from the burst location (3.5 arcsec) was rather large, ALMAJ2300-0522 may be one component of the GRB131030A host galaxy, according to previous host galaxy cases.

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@article{arxiv.1612.06481,
  title  = {ALMA and RATIR observations of GRB131030A},
  author = {Kuiyun Huang and Yuji Urata and Satoko Takahashi and Myungshin Im and Po-Chieh Yu and Changes Choi and Nathaniel Butler and Alan M. Watson and Alexander Kutyrev and William H. Lee and Chris Klein and Ori D. Fox and Owen Littlejohns and Nino Cucchiara and Eleonora Troja and Jesús González and Michael G. Richer and Carlos Román-Zúñiga and Josh Bloom and J. Xavier Prochaska and Neil Gehrels and Harvey Moseley and Leonid Georgiev and José A. de Diego and Enrico Ramirez Ruiz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.06481},
  year   = {2017}
}

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16 pages, 7 figures, 1 table, PASJ in press