The discovery of an evolving dust scattered X-ray halo around GRB 031203

Details The discovery of an evolving dust scattered X-ray halo around GRB 031203 The discovery of an evolving dust scattered X-ray halo around GRB 031203

2003-12-23

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0312603v2

Astrophys.J. 603 (2004) L5-L8

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages. 4 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters

Scientific paper

10.1086/382785

We report the first detection of a time-dependent, dust-scattered X-ray halo around a gamma-ray burst. GRB 031203 was observed by XMM-Newton starting six hours after the burst. The halo appeared as concentric ring-like structures centered on the GRB location. The radii of these structures increased with time as t^{1/2}, consistent with small-angle X-ray scattering caused by a large column of dust along the line of sight to a cosmologically distant GRB. The rings are due to dust concentrated in two distinct slabs in the Galaxy located at distances of 880 and 1390 pc, consistent with known Galactic features. The halo brightness implies an initial soft X-ray pulse consistent with the observed GRB.

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