Early ROTSE-III observations of GRB afterglows

Pandey, S. B.; Akerlof, C. W.; Zheng, W.; Yuan, Fang; Rykoff, E. S.; McKay, T. A.

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Early ROTSE-III observations of GRB afterglows

Date

2011

Authors

Pandey, S. B.

Akerlof, C. W.

Zheng, W.

Yuan, Fang

Rykoff, E. S.

McKay, T. A.

Publisher

American Institute of Physics (AIP)

Abstract

Early observations of 15 GRB afterglows taken (2008-09) by ROTSE-III along with the published data of 26 others have been used to study the rising temporal nature seen at optical frequencies. A good fraction of early time temporal rising indices found to