Possible detection of hard X-ray afterglows of short gamma-ray bursts
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- 9 October 2001
Abstract
We report the discovery of a transient and fading hard X-ray emission in the BATSE lightcurves of a sample of short gamma-ray bursts. We have summed each of the four channel BATSE light curves of 76 short bursts to uncover the average overall temporal and spectral evolution of a possible transient signal following the prompt flux. We found an excess emission peaking ~30 s after the prompt one, detectable for ~100 s. The soft power-law spectrum and the time-evolution of this transient signal suggest that it is produced by the deceleration of a relativistic expanding source, as predicted by the afterglow model.Keywords
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- Version 1, 2001-10-09, ArXiv
- Published version: Astronomy & Astrophysics, 379 (3), L39.
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