A search for optical afterglow from GRB 970828

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Authors
  • P.J. Groot
  • T.J. Galama
  • J. van Paradijs
  • C. Kouveliotou
  • R.A.M.J. Wijers
  • J. Bloom
  • N. Tanvir
  • R. Vanderspek
  • J. Greiner
  • A.J. Castro-Tirado
  • J. Gorosabel
  • T. von Hippel
  • M. Lehnert
  • K. Kuijken
  • H. Hoekstra
  • N. Metcalfe
  • C. Howk
  • C. Conselice
  • J. Telting
  • R.G.M. Rutten
  • J. Rhoads
  • A. Cole
  • D.J. Pisano
  • R. Naber
  • R. Schwarz
Publication date 1998
Journal Astrophysical Journal
Volume | Issue number 493 | 1
Pages (from-to) L27-L30
Number of pages 4
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy (API)
Abstract We report on the results of R-band observations of the error box of the gamma -ray burst of 1997 August 28 made between 4 hr and 8 days after this burst occurred. No counterpart was found varying by more than 0.2 mag down to R=23.8 . We discuss the consequences of this nondetection for relativistic blast wave models of gamma -ray bursts and the possible effect of redshift on the relation between optical absorption and the low-energy cutoff in the X-ray afterglow spectrum.
Document type Article
Note ©1998 American Astronomical Society
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1086/311125
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