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The afterglow of the short/intermediate-duration gamma-ray burst GRB 000301C: A jet at z=2.04

We present Ulysses and NEAR data from the detection of the short or intermediate duration (2 s) gamma-ray burst GRB000301C (2000 March 1.41 UT). The gamma-ray burst (GRB) was localised by the Inter Planetary Network (IPN) and RXTE to an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. L. Jensen , J. U. Fynbo , J. Gorosabel , J. Hjorth , S. Holland , P. Moller , B. Thomsen , G. Bjornsson , H. Pedersen , I. Burud , A. Henden , N. R. Tanvir , C. J. Davis , P. Vreeswijk , E. Rol , K. Hurley , T. Cline , J. Trombka , T. McClanahan , R. Starr , J. Goldsten , A. J. Castro-Tirado , J. Greiner , C. A. L. Bailer-Jones , M. Kuemmel , R. Mundt

An Estimation of the Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglow Apparent Optical Brightness Distribution Function

By using recent publicly available observational data obtained in conjunction with the NASA Swift gamma-ray burst mission and a novel data analysis technique, we have been able to make some rough estimates of the GRB afterglow apparent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Carl W. Akerlof , Heather F. Swan

GRB990510: on the possibility of a beamed X-ray afterglow

We discuss the prompt emission of the gamma-ray burst (GRB) 990510 and its subsequent X-ray afterglow from 8.0 to 44.3 hrs after the prompt emission, using observations with the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor and Narrow Field Instruments on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 E. Kuulkers , L. A. Antonelli , L. Kuiper , J. S. Kaastra , L. Amati , E. Costa , F. Frontera , J. Heise , J. J. M. in 't Zand , N. Masetti , L. Nicastro , E. Pian , L. Piro , P. Soffita

The nature of the X-Ray Flash of August 24 2005

We present comprehensive photometric R-band observations of the fading optical afterglow of the X-Ray Flash XRF050824, from 11 minutes to 104 days after the burst. The R-band lightcurve of the afterglow resembles the lightcurves of long…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Sollerman , J. P. U. Fynbo , J. Gorosabel , J. P. Halpern , J. Hjorth , P. Jakobsson , N. Mirabal , D. Watson , D. Xu , A. J. Castro-Tirado , C. Feron , A. O. Jaunsen , M. Jelinek , B. L. Jensen , D. A. Kann , J. E. Ovaldsen , A. Pozanenko , M. Stritzinger , C. C. Thoene , A. de Ugarte Postigo , S. Guziy , M. Ibrahimov , S. P. Jaervinen , A. Levan , V. Rumyantsev , N. Tanvir

The X-ray afterglow of GRB030329

We report on XMM-Newton and Rossi-XTE observations of the bright (fluence $\sim$ 10$^{-4}$ erg cm$^{-2}$) and nearby (z=0.1685) Gamma-Ray Burst GRB030329 associated to SN2003dh. The first Rossi-XTE observation, 5 hours after the burst,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Tiengo , S. Mereghetti , G. Ghisellini , E. Rossi , G. Ghirlanda , N. Schartel

The jet and circumburst stellar wind of GRB 980519

We present extensive multi-colour (UBVR_CI_C) photometry of the optical afterglow of GRB 980519. Upon discovery, 8.3 hours after the burst, the source was decaying as a power law, (t-t_GRB)^alpha, with a rapid decay rate alpha_1 = -…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. O. Jaunsen , J. Hjorth , G. Bjornsson , M. I. Andersen , H. Pedersen , K. Kjernsmo , H. Korhonen , P. M. Sorensen , E. Palazzi

A Jet Break in the X-ray Light Curve of Short GRB 111020A: Implications for Energetics and Rates

We present broad-band observations of the afterglow and environment of the short GRB 111020A. An extensive X-ray light curve from Swift/XRT, XMM-Newton and Chandra, spanning ~100 seconds to 10 days after the burst, reveals a significant…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Wen-fai Fong , Edo Berger , Raffaella Margutti , B. Ashley Zauderer , Eleonora Troja , Ian Czekala , Ryan Chornock , Neil Gehrels , Takanori Sakamoto , Derek B. Fox , Philipp Podsiadlowski

The bright Gamma-Ray Burst of February 10, 2000: a case study of an optically dark GRB

The gamma-ray burst GRB000210 had the highest gamma-ray peak flux of any event localized by BeppoSAX as yet but it did not have a detected optical afterglow. It is therefore one of the events recently classified as dark GRBs or GHOST (GRB…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-16 L. Piro , D. A. Frail , J. Gorosabel , G. Garmire , P. Soffitta , L. Amati , M. I. Andersen , L. A. Antonelli , E. Berger , F. Frontera , J. Fynbo , G. Gandolfi , M. R. Garcia , J. Hjorth , J. in 't Zand , B. L. Jensen , N. Masetti , P. Möller , H. Pedersen , E. Pian , M. H. Wieringa

The Remarkable Afterglow of GRB 061007: Implications for Optical Flashes and GRB Fireballs

We present a multiwavelength analysis of Swift GRB 061007. The 2-m robotic Faulkes Telescope South (FTS) began observing 137 s after the onset of the gamma-ray emission, when the optical counterpart was already decaying from R 10.3 mag, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 C. G. Mundell , A. Melandri , C. Guidorzi , S. Kobayashi , I. A. Steele , D. Malesani , L. Amati , P. D'Avanzo , D. F. Bersier , A. Gomboc , E. Rol , M. F. Bode , D. Carter , C. J. Mottram , A. Monfardini , R. J. Smith , S. Malhotra , J. Wang , N. Bannister , P. T. O'Brien , N. R. Tanvir

Photometry and spectroscopy of GRB 060526: A detailed study of the afterglow and host galaxy of a z=3.2 gamma-ray burst

Aims: With this paper we want to investigate the highly variable afterglow light curve and environment of gamma-ray burst (GRB) 060526 at $z=3.221$. Methods: We present one of the largest photometric datasets ever obtained for a GRB…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-16 C. C. Thöne , D. A. Kann , G. Jóhannesson , J. H. Selj , A. O. Jaunsen , J. P. U. Fynbo , C. W. Akerlof , K. S. Baliyan , C. Bartolini , I. F. Bikmaev , J. S. Bloom , R. A. Burenin , B. E. Cobb , S. Covino , P. A. Curran , H. Dahle , A. Ferrero , S. Foley , J. French , A. S. Fruchter , S. Ganesh , J. F. Graham , G. Greco , A. Guarnieri , L. Hanlon , J. Hjorth , M. Ibrahimov , G. L. Israel , P. Jakobsson , M. Jelínek , B. L. Jensen , U. G. Jørgensen , I. M. Khamitov , T. S. Koch , A. J. Levan , D. Malesani , N. Masetti , S. Meehan , G. Melady , D. Nanni , J. Näränen , E. Pakstiene , M. N. Pavlinsky , D. A. Perley , A. Piccioni , G. Pizzichini , A. Pozanenko , P. W. A. Roming , W. Rujopakarn , V. Rumyantsev , E. S. Rykoff , D. Sharapov , D. Starr , R. A. Sunyaev , H. Swan , N. R. Tanvir , F. Terra , P. M. Vreeswijk , A. C. Wilson , S. A. Yost , F. Yuan

Multicolor observations of the afterglow of the short/hard GRB 050724

New information on short/hard gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is being gathered thanks to the discovery of their optical and X-ray afterglows. However, some key aspects are still poorly understood, including the collimation level of the outflow,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-10-03 D. Malesani , S. Covino , P. D'Avanzo , V. D'Elia , D. Fugazza , S. Piranomonte , L. Ballo , S. Campana , L. Stella , G. Tagliaferri , L. A. Antonelli , G. Chincarini , M. Della Valle , P. Goldoni , C. Guidorzi , G. L. Israel , D. Lazzati , A. Melandri , L. J. Pellizza , P. Romano , G. Stratta , S. D. Vergani

Optical light curve of GRB 121011A: a textbook for the onset of GRB afterglow in a mixture of ISM and wind-type medium

We reported the optical observations of GRB 121011A by 0.8-m TNT telescope at Xinglong observatory, China. The light curve of optical afterglow shows a smooth and featureless bump during the epoch of $\sim$130 sec and $\sim$5000 sec with a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-20 Li-Ping Xin , Jian-Yan Wei , Yu-Lei Qiu , Jin-Song Deng , Jing Wang , Xu-Hui Han

Swift XRT Observations of the Breaking X-ray Afterglow of GRB 050318

We report the results of Swift X-Ray Telescope (XRT) observations of GRB 050318. This event triggered the Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) aboard Swift and was followed-up with XRT and UVOT for 11 consecutive orbits starting from 54 minutes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Perri , P. Giommi , M. Capalbi , L. Amati , F. Frontera , G. Chincarini , S. Campana , A. Moretti , P. Romano , G. Tagliaferri , G. Cusumano , V. La Parola , V. Mangano , T. Mineo , D. N. Burrows , J. E. Hill , J. A. Kennea , D. C. Morris , C. Pagani , J. A. Nousek , L. Angelini , N. Gehrels , M. Still , A. P. Beardmore , M. R. Goad , O. Godet , P. T. O'Brien , J. P. Osborne , K. L. Page

The Afterglows of Swift-era Gamma-Ray Bursts. I. Comparing pre-Swift and Swift era Long/Soft (Type II) GRB Optical Afterglows

We have gathered optical photometry data from the literature on a large sample of Swift-era gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglows including GRBs up to September 2009, for a total of 76 GRBs, and present an additional three pre-Swift GRBs not…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-28 D. A. Kann , S. Klose , B. Zhang , D. Malesani , E. Nakar , A. Pozanenko , A. C. Wilson , N. R. Butler , P. Jakobsson , S. Schulze , M. Andreev , L. A. Antonelli , I. F. Bikmaev , V. Biryukov , M. Böttcher , R. A. Burenin , J. M. Castro Cerón , A. J. Castro-Tirado , G. Chincarini , B. E. Cobb , S. Covino , P. D'Avanzo , V. D'Elia , M. Della Valle , A. de Ugarte Postigo , Yu. Efimov , P. Ferrero , D. Fugazza , J. P. U. Fynbo , M. Gålfalk , F. Grundahl , J. Gorosabel , S. Gupta , S. Guziy , B. Hafizov , J. Hjorth , K. Holhjem , M. Ibrahimov , M. Im , G. L. Israel , M. Jeĺinek , B. L. Jensen , R. Karimov , I. M. Khamitov , Ü. Kızıloǧlu , E. Klunko , P. Kubánek , A. S. Kutyrev , P. Laursen , A. J. Levan , F. Mannucci , C. M. Martin , A. Mescheryakov , N. Mirabal , J. P. Norris , J. -E. Ovaldsen , D. Paraficz , E. Pavlenko , S. Piranomonte , A. Rossi , V. Rumyantsev , R. Salinas , A. Sergeev , D. Sharapov , J. Sollerman , B. Stecklum , L. Stella , G. Tagliaferri , N. R. Tanvir , J. Telting , V. Testa , A. C. Updike , A. Volnova , D. Watson , K. Wiersema , D. Xu

A study of the prompt and afterglow emission of the Short GRB 061201

Our knowledge of the intrinsic properties of short duration Gamma-Ray Bursts has relied, so far, only upon a few cases for which the estimate of the distance and an extended, multiwavelength monitoring of the afterglow have been obtained.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-19 G. Stratta , P. D'Avanzo , S. Piranomonte , S. Cutini , B. Preger , M. Perri , M. L. Conciatore , S. Covino , L. Stella , D. Guetta , F. E. Marshall , S. T. Holland , M. Stamatikos , C. Guidorzi , V. Mangano , L. A. Antonelli , D. Burrows , S. Campana , M. Capalbi , G. Chincarini , G. Cusumano , V. D'Elia , P. A. Evans , F. Fiore , D. Fugazza , P. Giommi , J. P. Osborne , V. La Parola , T. Mineo , A. Moretti , K. L. Page , P. Romano , G. Tagliaferri

Multi-Wavelength Observations of GRB 050820A: An Exceptionally Energetic Event Followed from Start to Finish

We present observations of the unusually bright and long gamma-ray burst GRB 050820A, one of the best-sampled broadband data sets in the Swift era. The gamma-ray light curve is marked by a soft precursor pulse some 200 s before the main…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-12 S. B. Cenko , M. Kasliwal , F. A. Harrison , V. Pal'shin , D. A. Frail , P. B. Cameron , E. Berger , D. B. Fox , A. Gal-Yam , S. R. Kulkarni , D. -S. Moon , E. Nakar , E. O. Ofek , B. E. Penprase , P. A. Price , R. Sari , B. P. Schmidt , A. M. Soderberg , R. Aptekar , D. Frederiks , S. Golenetskii , D. N. Burrows , R. A. Chevalier , N. Gehrels , P. J. McCarthy , J. A. Nousek , S. E. Persson , T. Piran

Very Early Optical Afterglows of Gamma-Ray Bursts: Evidence for Relative Paucity of Detection

Very early observations with the Swift satellite of gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglows reveal that the optical component is not detected in a large number of cases. This is in contrast to the bright optical flashes previously discovered in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 P. W. A. Roming , P. Schady , D. B. Fox , B. Zhang , E. Liang , K. O. Mason , E. Rol , D. N. Burrows , A. J. Blustin , P. T. Boyd , P. Brown , S. T. Holland , K. McGowan , W. B. Landsman , K. L. Page , J. E. Rhoads , S. R. Rosen , D. Vanden Berk , S. D. Barthelmy , A. A. Breeveld , A. Cucchiara , M. De Pasquale , E. E. Fenimore , N. Gehrels , C. Gronwall , D. Grupe , M. R. Goad , M. Ivanushkina , C. James , J. A. Kennea , S. Kobayashi , V. Mangano , P. Meszaros , A. N. Morgan , J. A. Nousek , J. P. Osborne , D. M. Palmer , T. Poole , M. D. Still , G. Tagliaferri , S. Zane

A blast from the infant Universe: the very high-z GRB 210905A

We present a detailed follow-up of the very energetic GRB 210905A at a high redshift of z = 6.312 and its luminous X-ray and optical afterglow. We obtained a photometric and spectroscopic follow-up in the optical and near-infrared (NIR),…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-28 A. Rossi , D. D. Frederiks , D. A. Kann , M. De Pasquale , E. Pian , G. Lamb , P. D'Avanzo , L. Izzo , A. J. Levan , D. B. Malesani , A. Melandri , A. Nicuesa Guelbenzu , S. Schulze , R. Strausbaugh , N. R. Tanvir , L. Amati , S. Campana , A. Cucchiara , G. Ghirlanda , M. Della Valle , S. Klose , R. Salvaterra , R. Starling , G. Stratta , A. E. Tsvetkova , S. D. Vergani , A. D'Ai , D. Burgarella , S. Covino , V. D'Elia , A. de Ugarte Postigo , H. Fausey , J. P. U. Fynbo , F. Frontera , C. Guidorzi , K. E. Heintz , N. Masetti , E. Maiorano , C. G. Mundell , S. R. Oates , M. J. Page , E. Palazzi , J. Palmerio , G. Pugliese , A. Rau , A. Saccardi , B. Sbarufatti , D. S. Svinkin , G. Tagliaferri , A. J. van der Horst , D. Watson , M. V. Ulanov , K. Wiersema , D. Xu , J. Zhang

Late-epoch optical and near-infrared observations of the GRB000911 afterglow and its host galaxy

We present the results of an optical and near-infrared (NIR) monitoring campaign of the counterpart of Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) 000911, located at redshift z=1.06, from 5 days to more than 13 months after explosion. Our extensive dataset is a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. Masetti , E. Palazzi , E. Pian , L. Hunt , J. P. U. Fynbo , J. Gorosabel , S. Klose , S. Benetti , R. Falomo , A. Zeh , L. Amati , M. I. Andersen , A. J. Castro-Tirado , J. M. Castro Cerón , J. Danziger , F. Frontera , A. S. Fruchter , J. Greiner , J. Hjorth , B. L. Jensen , L. Kaper , C. Kouveliotou , A. Levan , A. Magazzu , P. Moller , L. Nicastro , H. Pedersen , N. R. Tanvir , P. M. Vreeswijk , R. A. M. J. Wijers , E. P. J. van den Heuvel

Multiwavelength study of the very long GRB 020410

GRB 020410 is by far the longest gamma-ray burst (with a duration of about 1600 s) to have been followed up from the X-ray through the radio regime. Afterglow emission was detected in X-rays and at optical wavelengths while no emission was…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Nicastro , J. J. M. in 't Zand , L. Amati , E. Mazets , A. Castro-Tirado , J. Gorosabel , D. Lazzati , E. Costa , M. De Pasquale , M. Feroci , F. Frontera , J. Heise , E. Pian , L. Piro , C. Sanchez-Fernandez , P. Tristram