The polarization evolution of the optical afterglow of GRB 030329
Astrophysics
2009-11-10 v1
Abstract
We report 31 polarimetric observations of the afterglow of GRB 030329 with high signal-to-noise and high sampling frequency. The data imply that the afterglow magnetic field has small coherence length and is mostly random, probably generated by turbulence.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0312089,
title = {The polarization evolution of the optical afterglow of GRB 030329},
author = {J. Greiner and S. Klose and K. Reinsch and H. M. Schmid and R. Sari and D. H. Hartmann and C. Kouveliotou and A. Rau and E. Palazzi and C. Straubmeier and B. Stecklum and S. Zharikov and G. Tovmassian and O. Barnbantner and C. Ries and E. Jehin and A. Henden and A. A. Kaas and T. Grav and J. Hjorth and H. Pedersen and R. A. M. J. Wijers and A. Kaufer and H. -S. Park and G. Williams and O. Reimer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0312089},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
2003 GRB Conference, Santa Fe, Oct. 2003, 1 ps-figure