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arxiv: 1607.08454 · v1 · pith:KOEMNBXJnew · submitted 2016-07-28 · 🌌 astro-ph.HE

GRB 110530A: Peculiar Broad Bump and Delayed Plateau in Early Optical Afterglows

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We report our very early optical observations of GRB 110530A and investigate its jet properties together with its X-ray afterglow data. A peculiar broad onset bump followed by a plateau is observed in its early R band afterglow lightcurve. The optical data in the other bands and the X-ray data are well consistent with the temporal feature of the R band lightcurve. Our joint spectral fits of the optical and X-ray data show that they are in the same regime, with a photon index of $\sim 1.70$. The optical and X-ray afterglow lightcurves are well fitted with the standard external shock model by considering a delayed energy injection component. Based on our modeling results, we find that the radiative efficiency of the GRB jet is $\sim 1\%$ and the magnetization parameter of the afterglow jet is $<0.04$ with the derived extremely low $\epsilon_B$ (the fraction of shock energy to magnetic field) of $(1.64\pm 0.25)\times 10^{-6}$. These results indicate that the jet may be matter dominated. Discussion on delayed energy injection from accretion of late fall-back material of its pre-supernova star is also presented.

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