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ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS
Volume 411, Issue 1, Pages L315-L319Publisher
EDP SCIENCES S A
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20031393
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gamma rays : bursts; techniques : photometric; cosmology : observations
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We present multiwavelength observations of a gamma-ray burst detected by INTEGRAL (GRB 030227) between 5.3 hours and similar to1.7 days after the event. Here we report the discovery of a dim optical afterglow (OA) that would not have been detected by many previous searches due to its faintess (R similar to 23). This OA was seen to decline following a power law decay with index alpha(R) = - 0.95 +/- 0.16. The spectral index beta(opt/NIR) yielded - 1.25 +/- 0.14. These values may be explained by a relativistic expansion of a fireball ( with p = 2.0) in the cooling regime. We also find evidence for inverse Compton scattering in X-rays.
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