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GRB 081029: Understanding Multiple Afterglow Components
- Publication Year :
- 2011
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Abstract
- We present an analysis of the unusual optical light curve of the gamma-ray burst GRB~081029, which occurred at a redshift of z = 3.8479$. We combine X-ray and optical observations from the Swift X-Ray Telescope and the Swift UltraViolet/Optical Telescope with optical and infrared data obtained using the REM and ROTSE telescopes to construct a detailed data set extending from 86 s to approximately 100,000 s after the BAT trigger. Our data also cover a wide energy range, from 10 keV to 0.77 eV (1.24 Angstrom to 16,000 Angstrom). The X-ray afterglow shows a shallow initial decay followed by a rapid decay starting at about 18,000s. The optical and infrared afterglow, however, shows an uncharacteristic rise at about 5000 s that does not correspond to any feature in the X-ray light curve. Our data are not consistent with synchrotron radiation from a single-component jet interacting with an external medium. We do, however, find that the observed light curve can be explained using multi-component model for the jet.<br />4 pages, 3 figures, to appear in the AIP Conference Proceedings for the Gamma-Ray Burst 2010 Conference, Annapolis, MD, USA, November 2010
- Subjects :
- Physics
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
Infrared
Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Synchrotron radiation
FOS: Physical sciences
Astrophysics
Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Light curve
Optical telescope
Redshift
law.invention
Afterglow
Telescope
law
Gamma-ray burst
Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
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- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....41c9d9d43937dd6c7209024b374b2e9a