EPIC observations of two GRB afterglows S.Mereghetti IASF - Milano A.Tiengo, G.Ghisellini, E.Rossi, G.Ghirlanda, N.Schartel, D.Gotz, et al.... EPIC Cons. Meeting S.Mereghetti - Oct. 14, 2003
EPIC Cons. Meeting S.Mereghetti - Oct. 14, 2003
Discovered by INTEGRAL during calibrations on the Crab GRB 030227 Discovered by INTEGRAL during calibrations on the Crab Position (5 arcmin radius) distributed after 48 min EPIC Cons. Meeting S.Mereghetti - Oct. 14, 2003
EPIC Cons. Meeting S.Mereghetti - Oct. 14, 2003
Fpeak = 1.1 ph/cm2 s (20-200 keV) Fluence = 8x10-7 erg/cm2 s “X-ray rich” EPIC Cons. Meeting S.Mereghetti - Oct. 14, 2003
XMM-Newton observation started 8 hr after GRB final INTEGRAL error radius 3 arcmin Fx = 8.5x10-13 erg cm-2 s-1 (0.2-10 keV) EPIC Cons. Meeting S.Mereghetti - Oct. 14, 2003
X-ray afterglow flux decay Fx a t -1 X-ray afterglow flux decay EPIC Cons. Meeting S.Mereghetti - Oct. 14, 2003
Galactic absorption toward GRB030227 is NH = 1.7 x 1021 cm-2 EPIC Cons. Meeting S.Mereghetti - Oct. 14, 2003
An additional redshifted absorber is required Photon index 1.94 +/- 0.05 NH =7x1022 cm-2 @ Z=3.9 +/- 0.3 EPIC Cons. Meeting S.Mereghetti - Oct. 14, 2003
Redshift Absorption 68%, 90%, 99% c.l. EPIC Cons. Meeting S.Mereghetti - Oct. 14, 2003
Faint optical afterglow : R = 23.1 @ 12 hr Castro-Tirado et al. 2003, A&A in press, astro-ph/0309804 2.5 m I.Newton Tel. - R band - 1’ x 1’ field - 27 Feb 2003 EPIC Cons. Meeting S.Mereghetti - Oct. 14, 2003
Excluded by lack of Lyman forest blanketing in optical afterglow EPIC Cons. Meeting S.Mereghetti - Oct. 14, 2003
EPIC Cons. Meeting S.Mereghetti - Oct. 14, 2003
Watson et al. ApJ in press EPIC Cons. Meeting S.Mereghetti - Oct. 14, 2003
149/123 142.2/149 42/55 93.4/93 73.6/82 EPIC Cons. Meeting S.Mereghetti - Oct. 14, 2003
Power law fit c2=73.6 dof=82 EPIC Cons. Meeting S.Mereghetti - Oct. 14, 2003
Possible line at E=1.67 keV (3.2s F-test) Fe at z = 2.7-3 ? EPIC Cons. Meeting S.Mereghetti - Oct. 14, 2003
XTE XMM EPIC Cons. Meeting S.Mereghetti - Oct. 14, 2003
GRB 030329 Extremely bright GRB ( > 10-4 erg cm-2) and second closest (z=0.16) Bright Optical Transient R=12.6 at 1.5 hr Spectral “signature” of a supernova (SN2003dh) (Stanek et al. 2003, Hjorth et al. 2003) Long sought confirmation of GRB-SN connection EPIC Cons. Meeting S.Mereghetti - Oct. 14, 2003
EPIC Cons. Meeting S.Mereghetti - Oct. 14, 2003
GRB 030329 afterglow observations To + 5 hr RXTE ( 2 ks ) To + 30 hr RXTE (3.5 ks) To + 9 days RXTE (upper limit) To + 37 days XMM (30 ks net exp.) To + 61 days XMM (40 ks net exp.) EPIC Cons. Meeting S.Mereghetti - Oct. 14, 2003
Tiengo et al. 2003, A&A 409, 983 EPIC Cons. Meeting S.Mereghetti - Oct. 14, 2003
To + 5 hr To + 30 hr EPIC Cons. Meeting S.Mereghetti - Oct. 14, 2003
EPIC Cons. Meeting S.Mereghetti - Oct. 14, 2003
To + 37 days To + 61 days EPIC Cons. Meeting S.Mereghetti - Oct. 14, 2003
c2 = 63/30 EPIC Cons. Meeting S.Mereghetti - Oct. 14, 2003
EPIC Cons. Meeting S.Mereghetti - Oct. 14, 2003
weak hard to soft evolution of prompt emission Conclusions on GRB 030227 weak hard to soft evolution of prompt emission soft gamma ray spectrum, faint OT X-ray afterglow spectrum well fit by power law evidence for intrinsic absorption (a few 1022 cm-2) at z > 1 --> location in star forming region possible line at 1.67 keV (Fe ?) lines from low Z metals ? still debated.... EPIC Cons. Meeting S.Mereghetti - Oct. 14, 2003
Conclusions on GRB 030329 one of the most studied GRBs at all l (brightness and SN association) .... a Rosetta Stone for GRB physics ! A further XMM observation of such an extremely rare event would be very important EPIC Cons. Meeting S.Mereghetti - Oct. 14, 2003
Current capabilities of Integral Burst Alert System (IBAS : Mereghetti et al. 2003, A&A, astro-ph/0308047) GRB 030501 4 arcmin after 30 s fastest and most accurate GRB localization ever obtained !! EPIC Cons. Meeting S.Mereghetti - Oct. 14, 2003
XMM-Newton INTEGRAL “Twin” Spacecrafts --> similar pointing constraints interesting results expected from rapid XMM TOO of real time INTEGRAL triggers EPIC Cons. Meeting S.Mereghetti - Oct. 14, 2003