GRB 030227: the first multiwavelength afterglow of an INTEGRAL GRB

A.J. Castro-Tirado , J. Gorosabel , S. Guziy , D. Reverte , J. M. Castro Cer\'on , A. de Ugarte Postigo , N. Tanvir , S. Mereghetti

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A. Tiengo J. Buckle R. Sagar S.B. Pandey V. Mohan N. Masetti F. Mannucci S. Feltzing I. Lundstrom H. Pedersen C. Riess S. Trushkin J. Vilchez N. Lund S. Brandt S. Martinez Nunez V. Reglero M.D. Perez-Ramirez S. Klose J. Greiner J. Hjorth L. Kaper E. Pian E. Palazzi M.I. Andersen A. Fruchter J.P.U. Fynbo B. L. Jensen C. Kouveliotou J. Rhoads E. Rol P.M. Vreeswijk R.A.M.J. Wijers E. van den Heuvel

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We present multiwavelength observations of a gamma-ray burst detected by INTEGRAL (GRB 030227) between 5.3 hours and ~1.7 days after the event. Here we report the discovery of 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 Alpha_R= -0.95 +/- 0.16. The spectral index Beta_opt/NIR yielded -1.25 +/- 0.14. These values may be explained by a relativistic expansion of a fireball (with p = 2.0) in the cooling regime. We also find evidence for inverse Compton scattering in X-rays.

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GRB 030227: the first multiwavelength afterglow of an INTEGRAL GRB

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