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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 512, Issue 2, Pages 2337-2349Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac454
Keywords
radiation mechanisms: non-thermal; gamma-ray burst: general; gamma-ray burst: individual: (GRB190829A)
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- National Science Foundation [PHY-1607611]
- Lomonosov Moscow State University Development programme
- RFBR [19-29-11011]
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration [80NSSC18K0429]
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This article presents a multiwavelength analysis of GRB 190829A, which is the fourth closest long GRB ever detected by the Neil Gehrels Swift observatory and the third confirmed case with a very high-energy component. The study reveals two emission components in the event, with a bright reverse shock dominating at early times and a forward shock dominating at later times. The prompt and afterglow properties suggest that GRB 190829A shares similarities with cosmological long GRBs.
GRB 190829A at z = 0.0785 is the fourth closest long GRB ever detected by the Neil Gehrels Swift observatory, and the third confirmed case with a very high-energy component. We present our multiwavelength analysis of this rare event, focusing on its early stages of evolution, and including data from Swift, the MASTER global network of optical telescopes, ALMA, and ATCA. We report sensitive limits on the linear polarization of the optical emission, disfavouring models of off-axis jets to explain the delayed afterglow peak. The study of the multiwavelength light curves and broad-band spectra supports a model with at least two emission components: a bright reverse shock emission, visible at early times in the optical and X-rays and, later, in the radio band; and a forward shock component dominating at later times and lower radio frequencies. A combined study of the prompt and afterglow properties shows many similarities with cosmological long GRBs, suggesting that GRB 190829A is an example of classical GRBs in the nearby universe.
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