Significant and variable linear polarization during the prompt optical flash of GRB 160625B

E. Troja (), V. M. Lipunov, C. G. Mundell, N. R. Butler, A. M. Watson, S. Kobayashi, S. B. Cenko, F. E. Marshall, R. Ricci, A. Fruchter, M. H. Wieringa, E. S. Gorbovskoy, V. Kornilov, A. Kutyrev, W. H. Lee, V. Toy, N. V. Tyurina, N. M. Budnev, D. A. H. Buckley, J. González, O. Gress, A. Horesh, M. I. Panasyuk, J. X. Prochaska, E. Ramirez-Ruiz, R. Rebolo Lopez, M. G. Richer, C. Román-Zúñiga, M. Serra-Ricart, V. Yurkov and N. Gehrels
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E. Troja: University of Maryland, College Park
V. M. Lipunov: M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory, GSP-1
C. G. Mundell: University of Bath
N. R. Butler: School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University
A. M. Watson: Instituto de Astronomía, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
S. Kobayashi: Astrophysics Research Institute, Liverpool John Moores University, IC2 Building, Liverpool Science Park
S. B. Cenko: University of Maryland, College Park
F. E. Marshall: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
R. Ricci: INAF-Istituto di Radioastronomia
A. Fruchter: Space Telescope Science Institute
M. H. Wieringa: CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science
E. S. Gorbovskoy: M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory, GSP-1
V. Kornilov: M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory, GSP-1
A. Kutyrev: University of Maryland, College Park
W. H. Lee: Instituto de Astronomía, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
V. Toy: University of Maryland, College Park
N. V. Tyurina: M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory, GSP-1
N. M. Budnev: Irkutsk State University, Applied Physics Institute
D. A. H. Buckley: South African Astronomical Observatory
J. González: Instituto de Astronomía, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
O. Gress: Irkutsk State University, Applied Physics Institute
A. Horesh: Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University
M. I. Panasyuk: Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics of Lomonosov, Moscow State University
J. X. Prochaska: University of California Observatories
E. Ramirez-Ruiz: University of California Observatories
R. Rebolo Lopez: Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias Via Lactea, s/n E38205
M. G. Richer: Instituto de Astronomía, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
C. Román-Zúñiga: Instituto de Astronomía, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
M. Serra-Ricart: Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias Via Lactea, s/n E38205
V. Yurkov: Blagoveshchensk State Pedagogical University
N. Gehrels: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Nature, 2017, vol. 547, issue 7664, 425-427

Abstract: The prompt optical flash produced by the γ-ray burst GRB 160625B is highly linearly polarized, suggesting that it is produced by fast-cooling synchrotron radiation in a large-scale magnetic field.

Date: 2017
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