Optical and Radio observations of the bright GRB010222 afterglow: evidence for rapid synchrotron cooling?

Details Optical and Radio observations of the bright GRB010222 afterglow: evidence for rapid synchrotron cooling? Optical and Radio observations of the bright GRB010222 afterglow: evidence for rapid synchrotron cooling?

2001-04-15

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0104249v2

Bull. Astr. Soc. India, vol. 29, pp. 91-106 (2001)

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

16 pages, 4 postscript figures, minor revisions according to referee's comments, millimeter upper limit added, accepted for pu

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We report photometric observations of the optical afterglow of GRB010222 in V,R and I passbands carried out at UPSO, Naini Tal between 22-27 Feb 2001. We determine CCD Johnson BV and Cousins RI photometric magnitudes for 31 stars in the field of GRB010222 and use them to calibrate our measurements as well as other published BVRI photometric magnitudes of GRB010222 afterglow. We construct the light curve in V,R,I passbands and from a broken power-law fit determine the decay indices of 0.74+/-0.05 and 1.35+/-0.04 before and after the break at 0.7 days. Using reported X-ray flux measurements at 0.35 and 9.13 days after the burst we determine X-ray to opt/IR spectral index of 0.61+/-0.02 and 0.75+/-0.02 on these two days. We also report upper limits to the radio flux obtained from the RATAN-600 telescope and the GMRT, and millimeter-wave upper limits obtained from the Plateau de Bure Millimeter interferometer. We argue that the synchrotron cooling frequency is below the optical band for most of the observing period. We also estimate an initial jet opening angle of about 2.0n^(1/8) degrees, where n is the number density of the ambient medium.

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