GRB990510: on the possibility of a beamed X-ray afterglow

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2000-03-17

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0003258v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

16 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal

Scientific paper

10.1086/309159

We discuss the prompt emission of the gamma-ray burst (GRB) 990510 and its subsequent X-ray afterglow from 8.0 to 44.3 hrs after the prompt emission, using observations with the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor and Narrow Field Instruments on BeppoSAX. In the 40-700 keV band, GRB990510 had a fluence of \~1.9x10^{-5}erg cm^{-2}, whereas it reached a peak flux of ~2.4x10^{-6}erg cm^{-2} s^{-1}. The X-ray afterglow decay light curve can be satisfactorily described by a single power law with index of -1.42+/-0.07. Both the X-ray and optical behaviour of the afterglow can be explained by gamma-ray burst debris expanding as a jet; we find that the cooling frequency is (fixed) between the optical and X-ray wavelength bands.

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