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. 2003 Jun 19;423(6942):844-7.
doi: 10.1038/nature01734.

The bright optical afterglow of the nearby gamma-ray burst of 29 March 2003

P A Price  1 , D W Fox, S R Kulkarni, B A Peterson, B P Schmidt, A M Soderberg, S A Yost, E Berger, S G Djorgovski, D A Frail, F A Harrison, R Sari, A W Blain, S C Chapman
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The bright optical afterglow of the nearby gamma-ray burst of 29 March 2003

P A Price et al. Nature. .

Abstract

Past studies of cosmological gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have been hampered by their extreme distances, resulting in faint afterglows. A nearby GRB could potentially shed much light on the origin of these events, but GRBs with a redshift z <or= 0.2 have been estimated to occur only rarely, about once per decade. Here we report the discovery of the bright optical afterglow emission from the burst of 29 March 2003 (GRB030329; ref. 2). The brightness of the afterglow and the prompt report of its position resulted in extensive follow-up observations at many wavelengths, along with the measurement of the redshift, z = 0.169 (ref. 4). The gamma-ray and afterglow properties of GRB030329 are similar to those of GRBs at cosmological redshifts. Observations have already identified the progenitor as a massive star that exploded as a supernova.

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  • The supernova connection.
    Mészáros P. Mészáros P. Nature. 2003 Jun 19;423(6942):809-10. doi: 10.1038/423809a. Nature. 2003. PMID: 12815407 No abstract available.

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