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The extraordinarily bright optical afterglow of GRB 991208 and its host galaxy

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20010247

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Observations of the extraordinarily bright optical afterglow (OA) of GRB 991208 started 2.1 d after the event. The flux decay constant of the OA in the R-band is -2.30 +/- 0.07 up to 5 d, which is very likely due to the jet effect, and after that it is followed by a much steeper decay with constant -3.2 +/- 0.2, the fastest one ever seen in a GRB OA. A negative detection in several all-sky films taken simultaneously to the event implies either a previous additional break prior to 2 d after the occurrence of the GRB (as expected from the jet effect). The existence of a second break might indicate a steepening in the electron spectrum or the superposition of two events. Once the afterglow emission vanished, contribution of a bright underlying SN is found, but the light curve is not sufficiently well sampled to rule out a dust echo explanation. Our determination of z = 0.706 indicates that GRB 991208 is at 3.7 Gpc, implying an isotropic energy release of 1.15 x 10E53 erg which may be relaxed by beaming by a factor > 100. Precise astrometry indicates that the GRB coincides within 0.2' with the host galaxy, thus given support to a massive star origin. The absolute magnitude is M_B = -18.2, well below the knee of the galaxy luminosity function and we derive a star-forming rate of 11.5 +/- 7.1 Mo/yr. The quasi-simultaneous broad-band photometric spectral energy distribution of the afterglow is determined 3.5 day after the burst (Dec 12.0) implying a cooling frequency below the optical band, i.e. supporting a jet model with p = -2.30 as the index of the power-law electron distribution.

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Astronomia de raigs gamma, Raigs gamma, Galàxies, Cosmologia, Esclat de raigs gamma

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Gamma ray astronomy, Gamma rays, Galaxies, Cosmology, Gamma ray bursts

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CASTRO-TIRADO, A. j., SOKOLOV, V. v., CASTRO CERÓN, J. m., ZAPATERO-OSORIO, M. r., CAON, N., BLAKE, C., WALL, J., BENETTI, S., MAGAZZÙ, Alessandro, GHINASSI, F., PAREDES I POY, Josep maria, MARTÍ RIBAS, Josep, XANTHOPOULOS, E., KRISTEN, H. e., SMOKER, J., HURLEY, K.. The extraordinarily bright optical afterglow of GRB 991208 and its host galaxy. _Astronomy and Astrophysics_. 2001. Vol. 370, núm. 398-406. [consulta: 20 de gener de 2026]. ISSN: 0004-6361. [Disponible a: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/45374]

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