Multicolor Shallow Decay and Chromatic Breaks in the GRB 050319 Optical Afterglow | Zendy

K. Y. Huang | Zendy; Y. Urata | Zendy; P. H. Kuo | Zendy; WingHuen Ip | Zendy; Kunihito Ioka | Zendy; Tsutomu Aoki | Zendy; C. W. Chen | Zendy; W. P. Chen | Zendy; M. Isogai | Zendy; H. C. Lin | Zendy; Kazuo Makishima | Zendy; Hiroyuki Mito | Zendy; Takashi Miyata | Zendy; Y. Nakada | Zendy; S. Nishiura | Zendy; K. Onda | Zendy; Y. Qiu | Zendy; Takao Soyano | Zendy; Toru Tamagawa | Zendy; K. Tarusawa | Zendy; M. Tashiro | Zendy; T. Yoshioka | Zendy

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Multicolor Shallow Decay and Chromatic Breaks in the GRB 050319 Optical Afterglow

Author(s) -

K. Y. Huang,

Y. Urata,

P. H. Kuo,

WingHuen Ip,

Kunihito Ioka,

Tsutomu Aoki,

C. W. Chen,

W. P. Chen,

M. Isogai,

H. C. Lin,

Kazuo Makishima,

Hiroyuki Mito,

Takashi Miyata,

Y. Nakada,

S. Nishiura,

K. Onda,

Y. Qiu,

Takao Soyano,

Toru Tamagawa,

K. Tarusawa,

M. Tashiro,

T. Yoshioka

Publication year - 2006

Publication title -

the astrophysical journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.376

H-Index - 489

eISSN - 1538-4357

pISSN - 0004-637X

DOI - 10.1086/510737

Subject(s) - afterglow , light curve , gamma ray burst , chromatic scale , physics , astrophysics , power law , blue light , optics , statistics , mathematics

Multiwavelength observations of the optical afterglow of GRB 050319 were performed from 1.31 to 9.92 hr after the burst. Our R-band light curves, combined with other published data, can be described by the smooth broken power-law function, with alpha(1) = -0.84 +/- 0.02 to alpha(2) = -0.48 +/- 0.03, 0.04 days after the gamma-ray burst. The optical light curves are characterized by shallow decays - as was also observed in the X-rays - which may have a similar origin, related to energy injection. However, our observations indicate that there is still a puzzle concerning the chromatic breaks in the R-band light curve (at 0.04 days) and the X-ray light curve (at 0.004 days) that remains to be solved

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