The GRB afterglow onset observed by REM: fireball Lorentz factor and afterglow fluence

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2007-06-12

arxiv.org/abs/0706.1772v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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4 pages, 1 figure, to appear in New Astronomy Reviews, proceedings of "070228: The Next Decade of Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglows",

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We report observations of the early light curves of GRB 060418 and GRB 060607A, carried out with the pink robotic telescope REM. A clear peak is detected for both events, which is interpreted as the onset of the afterglow, that is the time at which the fireball starts decelerating. This detection allows to directly measure the initial fireball Lorentz factor, which was found to be Gamma_0 ~ 400 for both events, fully confirming the ultrarelativistic nature of gamma-ray burst fireballs. Sampling the light curve before the peak also allows to compute the bolometric fluence of the afterglow, which is 16% of the prompt one in the case of GRB 060418.

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