The Bright Optical Afterglow of the Nearby Gamma-ray Burst of 29 March 2003

Price, Paul; Fox, Derek B; Kulkarni, Shrinivas R; Peterson, Bruce; Schmidt, Brian; Soderberg, A M; Yost, S A; Berger, Edo; Djorgovski, S G; Frail, Dale A; Harrison, F A; Sari, R; Blain, A W; Chapman, Simon

The Bright Optical Afterglow of the Nearby Gamma-ray Burst of 29 March 2003

Date

2003

Authors

Price, Paul

Fox, Derek B

Kulkarni, Shrinivas R

Peterson, Bruce

Schmidt, Brian

Soderberg, A M

Yost, S A

Berger, Edo

Djorgovski, S G

Frail, Dale A

Publisher

Macmillan Publishers Ltd

Abstract

Past studies of cosmological γ-ray bursts (GRBs) have been hampered by their extreme distances, resulting in faint afterglows. A nearby GRB could potentially shed much light on the origin of these events, but GRBs with a redshift z ≤ 0.2 have been esti