Multicolor Observations of the GRB 000926 Afterglow

Price, Paul; Harrison, F A; Galama, T J; Reichart, D E; Axelrod, Tim; Berger, Edo; Bloom, J S; Busche, J; Cline, T; Diercks, A; Djorgovski, S G; Frail, Dale A; Gal-Yam, Avishay; Halpern, J.; Holtzman, Jon A; Hunt, M; Hurley, K C; Jacoby, B; Kimble, Randy A; Kulkarni, Shrinivas R; Mirabal, N; Morrison, Graham Lindsay; Ofek, Eran O; Pevunova, O; Sari, R; Schmidt, Brian; Turnshek, D; Yost, S A

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Multicolor Observations of the GRB 000926 Afterglow

Date

2001

Authors

Price, Paul

Harrison, F A

Galama, T J

Reichart, D E

Axelrod, Tim

Berger, Edo

Bloom, J S

Busche, J

Cline, T

Diercks, A

Publisher

IOP Publishing

Abstract

We present multicolor light curves of the optical afterglow of gamma-ray burst (GRB) 000926. Beginning ∼1.5 days after the burst, the light curves of this GRB steepen measurably. The existence of such achromatic breaks is usually taken to be an importan