GRB 071003: Broadband follow-up observations of a very bright gamma-ray burst in a galactic halo

Date

2008

Authors

Perley, D. A.
Li, W.
Chornock, Ryan
Prochaska, Jason
Butler, N. R.
Chandra, Poonam
Pollack, L. K.
Bloom, J. S.
Filippenko, Alexei
Yuan, Fang

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Institute of Physics Publishing Ltd.

Abstract

The optical afterglow of long-duration GRB 071003 is among the brightest yet to be detected from any GRB, with A ≈ 12 mag in KAIT observations starting 42 s after the GRB trigger, including filtered detections during prompt emission. However, our high-S

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Keywords: Gamma rays: bursts

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Source

Astrophysical Journal Letters

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Journal article

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2037-12-31