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26 April 2024

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Prompt Optical Detection of GRB 050401 with ROTSE-IIIa
E. S. Rykoff ; S. A. Yost ; H. A. Krimm ; F. Aharonian ; C. W. Akerlof ; K. Alatalo ; M. C. B. Ashley ; S. D. Barthelmy ; N. Gehrels ; T. Guver ; D. Horns ; U. Kiziloglu ; T. A. McKay ; M. Ozel ; A. Phillips ; R. M. Quimby ; W. Rujopakarn ; B. E. Schaefer ; D. A. Smith ; H. F. Swan ; W. T. Vestrand ; J. C. Wheeler ; J. Wren ;
Date:	23 Aug 2005
Journal:	Astrophys.J. 631 (2005) L121-L124
Subject:	astro-ph
Abstract:	The ROTSE-IIIa telescope at Siding Spring Observatory, Australia, detected prompt optical emission from Swift GRB 050401. In this letter, we present observations of the early optical afterglow, first detected by the ROTSE-IIIa telescope 33 s after the start of gamma-ray emission, contemporaneous with the brightest peak of this emission. This GRB was neither exceptionally long nor bright. This is the first prompt optical detection of a GRB of typical duration and luminosity. We find that the early afterglow decay does not deviate significantly from the power-law decay observable at later times, and is uncorrelated with the prompt gamma-ray emission. We compare this detection with the other two GRBs with prompt observations, GRB 990123 and GRB 041219a. All three bursts exhibit quite different behavior at early times.
Source:	arXiv, astro-ph/0508495
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