A catalog of optical/near-infrared data on GRB afterglows in the pre-Swift era. I. Light curve information

Details A catalog of optical/near-infrared data on GRB afterglows in the pre-Swift era. I. Light curve information A catalog of optical/near-infrared data on GRB afterglows in the pre-Swift era. I. Light curve information

2005-09-15

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0509466v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Submitted to astro-ph only. 215 pages, 60 data tables

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The present catalog is the result of our attempts to collect all published photometric data on GRB afterglows observed in the pre-Swift era by the end of 2004 in order to gain statistical insight on the phenomenology of GRB afterglows. Part I contains all published data on GRB afterglows in filters we used in Zeh, Klose, & Kann (2005) to create reference light curves and derive light curve parameters (mostly R band, but a few bursts have better data in other colors) including the corresponding references. The catalog includes GCN data as well as data published in refereed journals. No data have been omitted or evaluated in any way (with the exception of a very small number of data that turned out to be not related to an afterglow). Part II will contain color information via the observed light curves in the other photometric bands (Kann et al. 2006, in preparation). Using a simple computer program that can handle strings our catalog is easy to use since all tables are provided in TeX format. For an on-line searchable GCN catalog, we refer to the work done by Quimby et al. (2003). Our catalog includes photometric data on 59 bursts (GRB 970228 - GRB 041006) with altogether 4883 data points. Most data are from GRB 030329 (2759 data points), followed by GRB 021004 (393 data points), while 13 bursts have less than 10 data points. In the case of GRB 030329 we have not included the extensive data list which is on-line provided by Lipkin et al. (2004). (Abridged)

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