The broadband afterglow of GRB 030328

Details The broadband afterglow of GRB 030328 The broadband afterglow of GRB 030328

2006-01-13

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0601293v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

To appear in the proceedings of the 16th Annual October Astrophysics Conference in Maryland, "Gamma Ray Bursts in the Swift Er

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.2207921

We here report on the photometric, spectroscopic and polarimetric monitoring of the optical afterglow of the Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) 030328 detected by HETE-2. We found that a smoothly broken power-law decay provides the best fit of the optical light curves, with indices alpha_1 = 0.76 +/- 0.03, alpha_2 = 1.50 +/- 0.07, and a break at t_b = 0.48 +/- 0.03 d after the GRB. Polarization is detected in the optical V-band, with P = (2.4 +/- 0.6)% and theta = (170 +/- 7) deg. Optical spectroscopy shows the presence of two absorption systems at z = 1.5216 +/- 0.0006 and at z = 1.295 +/- 0.001, the former likely associated with the GRB host galaxy. The X-ray-to-optical spectral flux distribution obtained 0.78 days after the GRB was best fitted using a broken power-law, with spectral slopes beta_opt = 0.47 +/- 0.15 and beta_X = 1.0 +/- 0.2. The discussion of these results in the context of the "fireball model" shows that the preferred scenario is a fixed opening angle collimated expansion in a homogeneous medium.

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