The 1.4 GH[CLC]z[/CLC] Light Curve of GRB 970508
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- 20 June 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Astronomical Society in The Astrophysical Journal
- Vol. 500 (2), L101-L104
- https://doi.org/10.1086/311424
Abstract
We report on Westerbork 1.4 GHz radio observations of the radio counterpart to γ-ray burst GRB 970508, between 0.80 and 138 days after this event. The 1.4 GHz light curve shows a transition from optically thick to thin emission between 39 and 54 days after the event. We derive the slope p of the spectrum of injected electrons (dN/dγe∝γ−pe) in two independent ways, which yield values very close to p=2.2. This is in agreement with a relativistic dynamically near-adiabatic blast-wave model whose emission is dominated by synchrotron radiation and in which a significant fraction of the electrons cool fast.Keywords
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