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2000A&A...359L..23M - Astronomy and Astrophysics, volume 359, L23-26 (2000/7-3)

Unusually rapid variability of the GRB000301C optical afterglow.

MASETTI N., BARTOLINI C., BERNABEI S., GUARNIERI A., PALAZZI E., PIAN E., PICCIONI A., CASTRO-TIRADO A.J., CASTRO CERON J.M., VERDES-MONTENEGRO L., SAGAR R., MOHAN V., PANDEY A.K., PANDEY S.B., BOCK H., GREINER J., BENETTI S., WIJERS R.A.M.J., BESKIN G.M. and GOROSABEL J.

Abstract (from CDS):

We present BVRI light curves of the afterglow of GRB000301C, one of the brightest ever detected at a day time scale interval after GRB trigger. The monitoring started 1.5 days after the GRB and ended one month later. Inspection of the extremely well sampled R band light curve and comparison with BVI data has revealed complex behavior, with a long term flux decrease and various short time scale features superimposed. These features are uncommon among other observed afterglows, and might trace either intrinsic variability within the relativistic shock (re-acceleration and re-energization) or inhomogeneities in the medium in which the shock propagates.

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Journal keyword(s): gamma rays: bursts

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