Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2011

Publication Title

Astronomy & Astrophysics

Volume

529

Publisher

EDP Sciences

Abstract

We present the results of a comprehensive study of the gamma-ray burst 080928 and of its afterglow. GRB 080928 was a long burst detected by Swift/BAT and Fermi/GBM. It is one of the exceptional cases where optical emission had already been detected when the GRB itself was still radiating in the gamma-ray band. For nearly 100 s simultaneous optical, X-ray and gamma-ray data provide a coverage of the spectral energy distribution of the transient source from about 1 eV to 150 keV. In particular, we show that the SED during the main prompt emission phase agrees with synchrotron radiation. We constructed the optical/near-infrared light curve and the spectral energy distribution based on Swift/UVOT, ROTSE-IIIa (Australia), and GROND (La Silla) data and compared it to the X-ray light curve retrieved from the Swift/XRT repository. We show that its bumpy shape can be modeled by multiple energy-injections into the forward shock. Furthermore, we investigate whether the temporal and spectral evolution of the tail emission of the first strong flare seen in the early X-ray light curve can be explained by large-angle emission (LAE). We find that a nonstandard LAE model is required to explain the observations. Finally, we report on the results of our search for the GRB host galaxy, for which only a deep upper limit can be provided.

Comments

Additional authors: A. Küpcü Yoldas, S. McBreen, T. A. McKay, A. Nicuesa Guelbenzu, F. E. Olivares, B. Paciesas, E. S. Rykoff, G. Szokoly, A. C. Updike, A. Yoldas


EDP Sciences holds the copyright to this article.

The published version can be found here: http://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2011/05/aa15324-10/aa15324-10.html

Download

Share

COinS