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The Discovery and Broad-band Follow-up of the Transient Afterglow of GRB 980703

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arxiv astro-ph/9808319 v1 pith:SI5LAFHL submitted 1998-08-27 astro-ph

J. S. Bloom , D. A. Frail , S. R. Kulkarni , S. G. Djorgovski , J. P. Halpern , R. O. Marzke , D. R. Patton , J. B. Oke
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K. D. Horne R. Gomer R. Goodrich R. Campbell G. H. Moriarty-Schieven R. O. Redman P.A. Feldman E. Costa N. Masetti
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We report on the discovery of the radio, infrared and optical transient coincident with an X-ray transient proposed to be the afterglow of GRB 980703. At later times when the transient has faded below detection, we see an underlying galaxy with R=22.6; this galaxy is the brightest host galaxy (by nearly 2 magnitudes) of any cosmological GRB thus far. In keeping with an established trend, the GRB is not significantly offset from the host galaxy. Interpreting the multi-wavelength data in the framework of the popular fireball model requires that the synchrotron cooling break was between the optical and X-ray bands on July 8.5 UT and that the intrinsic extinction of the transient is Av=0.9. This is somewhat higher than the extinction for the galaxy as a whole, as estimated from spectroscopy.

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