UNUSUAL CENTRAL ENGINE ACTIVITY IN THE DOUBLE BURST GRB 110709B

Binbin, Zhang; Burrows, David N; Meszaros, Peter; Falcone, Abraham D; Bing, Zhang; Xiangyu, Wang; Stratta, Giulia; D'Elia, Valerio; Frederiks, Dmitry; Golenetskii, Sergey; Cummings, Jay R; Barthelmy, Scott D; Gehrels, Neil

doi:10.1088/0004-637X/748/2/132

Title: UNUSUAL CENTRAL ENGINE ACTIVITY IN THE DOUBLE BURST GRB 110709B

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The double burst, GRB 110709B, triggered the Swift/Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) twice at 21:32:39 UT and 21:43:45 UT, respectively, on 2011 July 9. This is the first time we observed a gamma-ray burst (GRB) with two BAT triggers. In this paper, we present simultaneous Swift and Konus-WIND observations of this unusual GRB and its afterglow. If the two events originated from the same physical progenitor, their different time-dependent spectral evolution suggests they must belong to different episodes of the central engine, which may be a magnetar-to-BH accretion system.

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Binbin, Zhang; Burrows, David N; Meszaros, Peter; Falcone, Abraham D ^[1]; Bing, Zhang ^[2]; Xiangyu, Wang ^[3]; Stratta, Giulia; D'Elia, Valerio ^[4]; Frederiks, Dmitry; Golenetskii, Sergey ^[5]; Cummings, Jay R; Barthelmy, Scott D; Gehrels, Neil ^[6]

Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802 (United States)
Department of Physics, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV 89154 (United States)
Department of Astronomy, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093 (China)
ASI-Science Data Center, Via Galileo Galilei, I-00044 Frascati (Italy)
Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, Laboratory for Experimental Astrophysics, 26 Polytekhnicheskaya, St Petersburg 194021 (Russian Federation)
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771 (United States)

Publication Date:: Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 EDT 2012

OSTI Identifier:: 22016077

Resource Type:: Journal Article

Journal Name:: Astrophysical Journal

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 748; Journal Issue: 2; Other Information: Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); Journal ID: ISSN 0004-637X

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 79 ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY; AFTERGLOW; COSMIC GAMMA BURSTS; GALACTIC EVOLUTION; TELESCOPES; TIME DEPENDENCE

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                    Binbin, Zhang, Burrows, David N, Meszaros, Peter, Falcone, Abraham D, Bing, Zhang, Xiangyu, Wang, Stratta, Giulia, D'Elia, Valerio, Frederiks, Dmitry, Golenetskii, Sergey, Cummings, Jay R, Barthelmy, Scott D, Gehrels, Neil, and Norris, Jay P., E-mail: bbzhang@psu.edu. UNUSUAL CENTRAL ENGINE ACTIVITY IN THE DOUBLE BURST GRB 110709B.  United States: N. p., 2012. 
        Web.  doi:10.1088/0004-637X/748/2/132.

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                    Binbin, Zhang, Burrows, David N, Meszaros, Peter, Falcone, Abraham D, Bing, Zhang, Xiangyu, Wang, Stratta, Giulia, D'Elia, Valerio, Frederiks, Dmitry, Golenetskii, Sergey, Cummings, Jay R, Barthelmy, Scott D, Gehrels, Neil, & Norris, Jay P., E-mail: bbzhang@psu.edu. UNUSUAL CENTRAL ENGINE ACTIVITY IN THE DOUBLE BURST GRB 110709B.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/748/2/132

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                    Binbin, Zhang, Burrows, David N, Meszaros, Peter, Falcone, Abraham D, Bing, Zhang, Xiangyu, Wang, Stratta, Giulia, D'Elia, Valerio, Frederiks, Dmitry, Golenetskii, Sergey, Cummings, Jay R, Barthelmy, Scott D, Gehrels, Neil, and Norris, Jay P., E-mail: bbzhang@psu.edu. 2012.  
        "UNUSUAL CENTRAL ENGINE ACTIVITY IN THE DOUBLE BURST GRB 110709B".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/748/2/132.

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@article{osti_22016077,

  title        = {UNUSUAL CENTRAL ENGINE ACTIVITY IN THE DOUBLE BURST GRB 110709B},

  author       = {Binbin, Zhang and Burrows, David N and Meszaros, Peter and Falcone, Abraham D and Bing, Zhang and Xiangyu, Wang and Stratta, Giulia and D'Elia, Valerio and Frederiks, Dmitry and Golenetskii, Sergey and Cummings, Jay R and Barthelmy, Scott D and Gehrels, Neil and Norris, Jay P., E-mail: bbzhang@psu.edu},

  abstractNote = {The double burst, GRB 110709B, triggered the Swift/Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) twice at 21:32:39 UT and 21:43:45 UT, respectively, on 2011 July 9. This is the first time we observed a gamma-ray burst (GRB) with two BAT triggers. In this paper, we present simultaneous Swift and Konus-WIND observations of this unusual GRB and its afterglow. If the two events originated from the same physical progenitor, their different time-dependent spectral evolution suggests they must belong to different episodes of the central engine, which may be a magnetar-to-BH accretion system.},

  doi          = {10.1088/0004-637X/748/2/132},

  url          = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/22016077},
  journal      = {Astrophysical Journal},

  issn         = {0004-637X},

  number       = 2,

  volume       = 748,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 EDT 2012},

  month        = {Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 EDT 2012}

}

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