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GRB 221009A: Discovery of an Exceptionally Rare Nearby and Energetic Gamma-Ray Burst

  • Authors: Maia A. Williams, Jamie A. Kennea, S. Dichiara, Kohei Kobayashi, Wataru B. Iwakiri, Andrew P. Beardmore, P. A. Evans, Sebastian Heinz, Amy Lien, S. R. Oates, Hitoshi Negoro, S. Bradley Cenko, Douglas J. K. Buisson, Dieter H. Hartmann, Gaurava K. Jaisawal, N. P. M. Kuin, Stephen Lesage, Kim L. Page, Tyler Parsotan, Dheeraj R. Pasham, B. Sbarufatti, Michael H. Siegel, Satoshi Sugita, George Younes, Elena Ambrosi, Zaven Arzoumanian, M. G. Bernardini, S. Campana, Milvia Capalbi, Regina Caputo, Antonino D'Aì, P. D'Avanzo, V. D'Elia, Massimiliano De Pasquale, R. A. J. Eyles-Ferris, Elizabeth Ferrara, Keith C. Gendreau, Jeffrey D. Gropp, Nobuyuki Kawai, Noel Klingler, Sibasish Laha, A. Melandri, Tatehiro Mihara, Michael Moss, Paul O'Brien, Julian P. Osborne, David M. Palmer, Matteo Perri, Motoko Serino, E. Sonbas, Michael Stamatikos, Rhaana Starling, G. Tagliaferri, Aaron Tohuvavohu, Silvia Zane, Houri Ziaeepour

Maia A. Williams et al 2023 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 946 .

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Caption: Figure 2.

Combined X-ray and UV–optical light curve of GRB 221009A. The upper panel shows observed X-ray flux from MAXI, NICER, XRT (all 0.3–10.0 keV), and BAT (14–195 keV). BAT data are taken from detections of the afterglow in Survey data; note that the final BAT data point combines all observations integrated over 1 day. The dotted line shows a broken power-law fit to the MAXI, NICER, and XRT data. The inset figure shows the first MAXI, BAT, and XRT data, with the black dashed line indicating a fit to the XRT data alone, and red dashed line a fit between the first MAXI point and the first XRT detection. The lower panel shows 7 filter optical and UV data from UVOT as obtained after the subtraction of late-time template images. The dashed line shows a power-law fit to the white band data.

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