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    GRB 991216 Joins the Jet Set: Discovery and Monitoring of its Optical Afterglow

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    Author/Creator
    Halpern, J. P.
    Uglesich, R.
    Mirabal, N.
    Kassin, S.
    Thorstensen, J.
    Keel, W. C.
    Diercks, A.
    Bloom, J. S.
    Harrison, F.
    Mattox, J.
    Eracleous, M.
    Date
    2000-06-15
    Type of Work
    19 pages
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    J. P. Halpern et al., GRB 991216 Joins the Jet Set: Discovery and Monitoring of Its Optical Afterglow, ApJ 543 697 (2000), doi: https://doi.org/10.1086/317134
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    Abstract
    The optical light curve of the energetic γ-ray burst GRB 991216 is consistent with jetlike behavior in which a power-law decay steepens from t⁻¹·²²⁺⁰·⁰⁴ at early times to t⁻¹·⁵³⁺⁰·⁰⁵ in a gradual transition at around 2 days. The derivation of the late-time decay slope takes into account the constant contribution of a host or intervening galaxy, which was measured 110 days after the event at R = 24.56 ± 0.14, although the light curve deviates from a single power law whether or not a constant term is included. The early-time spectral energy distribution of the afterglow can be described as Fν ∝ ν-0.74±0.05 or flatter between optical and X-ray, which, together with the slow initial decay, is characteristic of standard adiabatic evolution in a uniformly dense medium. Assuming that a reported absorption-line redshift of 1.02 is correct, the apparent isotropic energy of 6.7 × 10⁵³ ergs is reduced by a factor of ≈200 in the jet model, and the initial half-opening angle is ≈6°. GRB 991216 is the third good example of a jetlike afterglow (following GRB 990123 and GRB 990510), supporting a trend in which the apparently most energetic γ-ray events have the narrowest collimation and a uniform interstellar medium environment. This, plus the absence of evidence for supernovae associated with jetlike afterglows, suggests that these events may originate from a progenitor in which angular momentum plays an important role but a massive stellar envelope or wind does not, e.g., in the coalescence of a compact binary.


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