[vsnet-grb-info 2950] Oddball GRB 060218, transient or GRB?
GCN Circulars
gcncirc at capella.gsfc.nasa.gov
Mon Feb 20 06:52:39 JST 2006
TITLE: GCN GRB OBSERVATION REPORT
NUMBER: 4787
SUBJECT: Oddball GRB 060218, transient or GRB?
DATE: 06/02/19 21:49:58 GMT
FROM: Neil Gehrels at GSFC <gehrels at gsfc.nasa.gov>
N. Gehrels (NASA-GSFC) on behalf of the Swift team:
We point out that GRB 060218 (Cusumano et al. GCN 4775) is a
strange event. It has
- a gamma-ray light curve that is flat and a soft spectrum
(Barbier et al. GCN 4780)
- an X-ray light curve with a long, slow rise and gradual
decline (Cusumano et al. GCN 4786)
- an optical light curve with brightening after 10 hours
(Marshall et al. GCN 4785).
These characteristics are unlike previous GRBs.
It has properties that are also atypical of a transient:
- it is far off the galactic plane (b = -32.9 deg) and
far away from the bulge (l = 166.9 deg)
- there is a possible association (Mirabel GCN 4783) with
a galaxy in the SDSS pre-burst field (Cool et al. GCN 4777).
Further observations are warranted.
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