The clustering of the luminosities of optical afterglows of long Gamma Ray Bursts

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2005-08-22

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0508447v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

17 pages, 14 figures, A&A in press. Update of Swift bursts

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20054085

We studied the optical afterglows of the 24 pre-Swift Gamma-Ray Bursts with known spectroscopic redshift and published estimates of the optical extinction in the source frame. We find an unexpected clustering of the optical afterglow luminosities measured 12 hours (source frame time) after the trigger. For 21 out of 24 bursts, the distribution of the optical luminosities is narrower than the distribution of the X-ray luminosities, and even narrower than the distribution of the ratio between the monochromatic optical luminosities and the total isotropic emitted prompt energy. Three bursts stand apart from the distribution of the other sources, being underluminous by a factor ~15. We compare this result with the somewhat analogous result concerning the luminosity of the X-ray afterglows studied by Gendre & Boer. For all our GRBs we construct the optical to X-ray spectral energy distribution. For all but a minority of them, the optical and the X-ray emissions are consistent with being produced by the same radiation process. We discuss our results in the framework of the "standard" external shock synchrotron model. Finally, we consider the behavior of the first GRBs of known redshifts detected by Swift. We find that these Swift GRBs entirely confirm our findings.

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