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GRB 030226 早期光学与毫米观测

天体物理学 2009-11-10 v2

摘要

present the afterglow of the long-duration GRB 030226 in Johnson UBVUBV and Cousins RIRI photometric passbands. Upper limits of a few mJy to millimeter wave emission at the location of optical are obtained over the first two weeks. The optical data presented here, in combination with other published data on this afterglow, show an early RR band Flux decay slope of 0.77±\pm0.04, steepening to 2.05±\pm0.04 about 0.65±\pm0.03 day after the burst. Interpreted as the ``jet break'', this indicates a half opening angle of 3.2\sim 3.2 degree for the initial ejection, for an assumed ambient density of 1cm3\sim 1 {\rm cm}^{-3}. Broadband spectra show no appreciable evolution during the observations, and indicate the presence of synchrotron cooling frequency νc\nu_c near the upper edge of the optical band. From the broadband spectra we derive an electron energy distribution index p=2.07±0.06p = 2.07\pm0.06 and an intrinsic extinction E(BV)0.17E(B - V)\sim0.17. Millimeter upper limits are consistent with these derived parameters.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0312487,
  title  = {Early optical and millimeter observations of GRB 030226 afterglow},
  author = {S. B. Pandey and R. Sagar and G. C. Anupama and D. Bhattacharya and D. K. Sahu and A. J. Castro-Tirado and M. Bremer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0312487},
  year   = {2009}
}

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6 pages, 2 figures, Accepted to A&A