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Constraining the energy budget of GRB 080721
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. (2009) Constraining the energy budget of GRB 080721. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol.400 (No.1). pp. 90-99. ISSN 0035-8711 Full text not available from this repository.
Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.15443.x
Abstract
We follow the bright, highly energetic afterglow of Swift-discovered GRB 080721 at z = 2.591 out to 36 d or 3 x 10(6) s since the trigger in the optical and X-ray bands. We do not detect a break in the late-time light curve inferring a limit on the opening angle of theta(j) >= 7 degrees.3 and setting tight constraints on the total energy budget of the burst of E-gamma >= 9.9 x 10(51) erg within the fireball model. To obey the fireball model closure relations, the gamma-ray burst (GRB) jet must be expanding into a homogeneous surrounding medium and likely lies behind a significant column of dust. The energy constraint we derive can be used as an observational input for models of the progenitors of long GRBs: we discuss how such high collimation-corrected energies could be accommodated with certain parameters of the standard massive star core-collapse models. We can, however, most probably rule out a magnetar progenitor for this GRB which would require 100 per cent efficiency to reach the observed total energy.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Subjects: | Q Science > QB Astronomy |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Science > Physics |
| Journal or Publication Title: | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society |
| Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc |
| ISSN: | 0035-8711 |
| Date: | 21 November 2009 |
| Volume: | Vol.400 |
| Number: | No.1 |
| Number of Pages: | 10 |
| Page Range: | pp. 90-99 |
| Identification Number: | 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.15443.x |
| Status: | Peer Reviewed |
| Publication Status: | Published |
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
| Funder: | NASA, DOE SciDAC Program, Marie Curie European Re-Integration Grant, Icelandic Research Fund, Russian Space Agency, RFBR, ESO Telescopes, UK Science and Technology Facilities Council |
| Grant number: | DOE DE-FC02-06ER41438, PERG03-GA-2008-226653, 09-02-00166a, ID 081.D-0853 |
| URI: | http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/16970 |
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