Bibcode
Castro-Tirado, A. J.; Gorosabel, J.; Guziy, S.; Reverte, D.; Castro Cerón, J. M.; de Ugarte Postigo, A.; Tanvir, N.; Mereghetti, S.; Tiengo, A.; Pandey, S. B.; Masetti, N.; Pedersen, H.; Grace Collaboration
Bibliographical reference
GAMMA-RAY BURSTS: 30 YEARS OF DISCOVERY: Gamma-Ray Burst Symposium. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 727, pp. 491-496 (2004).
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2004
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Description
Multiwavelengthp observations of a GRB detected by INTEGRAL (GRB 030227)
revealed a dim optical afterglow (OA) that would not have been detected
by many previous searches due to its faintess (R~ 23). This OA was seen
to decline following a power law decay with index α = -0.95 +/-
0.16. The spectral index β of the OA yields -1.32 +/- 0.15, with
the intrinsec absorption consistent with zero. These values may be
explained by a relativistic expansion of a fireball in an homogeneous
medium. We also find evidence for inverse Compton scattering in X-rays.
A possible break is detected at ~ 1.5 days.