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Title: The Optical Two- and Three-dimensional Fundamental Plane Correlations for Nearly 180 Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglows with Swift/UVOT, RATIR, and the Subaru Telescope

Journal Article · · The Astrophysical Journal. Supplement Series
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  1. National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Tokyo (Japan); Graduate University for Advanced Studies (Japan); Space Science Institute, Boulder, CO (United States); SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); SLAC
  2. Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (United States)
  3. International Center for Relativistic Astrophysics Network (ICRANet) (Italy)
  4. Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States)
  5. Jagiellonian Univ., Krakow (Poland)
  6. Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia (Spain)
  7. Centennial High School, Corona, CA (United States)
  8. Scientific Caribbean Foundation, San Juan, PR (United States)
  9. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Greenbelt, MD (United States); Space Science Institute, Boulder, CO (United States)
  10. Latino Education Advancement Foundation, Baltimore, MD (United States)
  11. Univ. of Birmingham (United Kingdom)
  12. Univ. Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City (Mexico)
  13. Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ (United States)
  14. Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States); NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Greenbelt, MD (United States)
  15. Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, CA (United States)
  16. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
  17. Univ. Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), Ensenada (Mexico)

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are fascinating events due to their panchromatic nature. We study optical plateaus in GRB afterglows via an extended search into archival data. We comprehensively analyze all published GRBs with known redshifts and optical plateaus observed by many ground-based telescopes (e.g., Subaru Telescope, RATIR) around the world and several space-based observatories such as the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory. We fit 500 optical light curves, showing the existence of the plateau in 179 cases. This sample is 75% larger than the previous one, and it is the largest compilation so far of optical plateaus. We discover the 3D fundamental plane relation at optical wavelengths using this sample. This correlation is between the rest-frame time at the end of the plateau emission, $${T}_{\mathrm{opt}}^{* }$$, its optical luminosity, Lopt, and the peak in the optical prompt emission, Lpeak,opt, thus resembling the three-dimensional (3D) X-ray fundamental plane (the so-called 3D Dainotti relation). We correct our sample for redshift evolution and selection effects, discovering that this correlation is indeed intrinsic to GRB physics. We investigate the rest-frame end-time distributions in X-rays and optical ($${T}_{\mathrm{opt}}^{* }$$, $${T}_{{\rm{X}}}^{* }$$), and conclude that the plateau is achromatic only when selection biases are not considered. We also investigate if the 3D optical correlation may be a new discriminant between optical GRB classes and find that there is no significant separation between the classes compared to the Gold sample plane after correcting for evolution.

Research Organization:
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC); Univ. Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-76SF00515
OSTI ID:
1887184
Journal Information:
The Astrophysical Journal. Supplement Series, Journal Name: The Astrophysical Journal. Supplement Series Journal Issue: 2 Vol. 261; ISSN 0067-0049
Publisher:
IOP PublishingCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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