GRB 060313: A New Paradigm for Short-Hard Bursts?

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dc.creatorRoming, Peter W. A.
dc.creatorBerk, Daniel Vanden
dc.creatorPalshin, Valentin
dc.creatorPagani, Claudio
dc.creatorNorris, Jay
dc.creatorKumar, Pawan
dc.creatorKrimm, Hans
dc.creatorHolland, Stephen T.
dc.creatorGronwall, Caryl
dc.creatorBlustin, A lex J.
dc.creatorZhang, Bing
dc.creatorSchady, Patricia
dc.creatorSakamoto, Takanori
dc.creatorOsborne, Julian P.
dc.creatorNousek, John A.
dc.creatorMarshall, Frank E.
dc.creatorMeszaros, Peter
dc.creatorGolenetskii, Sergey V.
dc.creatorGehrels, Neil
dc.creatorFrederiks, Dmitry D.
dc.creatorCampana, Sergio
dc.creatorBurrows, David N.
dc.creatorBoyd, Patricia T.
dc.creatorBarthelmy, Scott
dc.creatorAptekar, R. L.
dc.date2006-04-28
dc.date2006-08-03
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T10:43:57Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T10:43:57Z
dc.descriptionWe report the simultaneous observations of the prompt emission in the gamma-ray and hard X-ray bands by the Swift-BAT and the KONUS-Wind instruments of the short-hard burst, GRB 060313. The observations reveal multiple peaks in both the gamma-ray and hard X-ray bands suggesting a highly variable outflow from the central explosion. We also describe the early-time observations of the X-ray and UV/Optical afterglows by the Swift XRT and UVOT instruments. The combination of the X-ray and UV/Optical observations provide the most comprehensive lightcurves to date of a short-hard burst at such an early epoch. The afterglows exhibit complex structure with different decay indices and flaring. This behavior can be explained by the combination of a structured jet, radiative loss of energy, and decreasing microphysics parameters occurring in a circum-burst medium with densities varying by a factor of approximately two on a length scale of 10^17 cm. These density variations are normally associated with the environment of a massive star and inhomogeneities in its windy medium. However, the mean density of the observed medium (n approximately 10^−4 cm^3) is much less than that expected for a massive star. Although the collapse of a massive star as the origin of GRB 060313 is unlikely, the merger of a compact binary also poses problems for explaining the behavior of this burst. Two possible suggestions for explaining this scenario are: some short bursts may arise from a mechanism that does not invoke the conventional compact binary model, or soft late-time central engine activity is producing UV/optical but no X-ray flaring.
dc.description28 pages, 6 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ. Clarifications made and typos corrected
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0605005
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0605005
dc.identifierAstrophys.J.651:985-993,2006
dc.identifierdoi:10.1086/508054
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/182425
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.titleGRB 060313: A New Paradigm for Short-Hard Bursts?
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