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Teshima, M.; Stamerra, A.; Mizobuchi, S.; Pagani, C.; Golenetskii, S.; Gaug, M.; Galante, N.; Burrows, D. N.; Krimm, H.; Morris, D. C.; Reeves, J.; Pal'shin, V.; Garczarczyk, M.; Falcone, A. D.; Godet, O.; Gehrels, N.; Beardmore, A. P.
Bibliographical reference
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 654, Issue 1, pp. 413-428.
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2007
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Description
Swift discovered GRB 050713A and slewed promptly to begin observing with
its narrow-field instruments 72.6 s after the burst onset, while the
prompt gamma-ray emission was still detectable in the BAT. Simultaneous
emission from two flares is detected in the BAT and XRT. This burst
marks just the second time that the BAT and XRT have simultaneously
detected emission from a burst and the first time that both instruments
have produced a well-sampled, simultaneous data set covering multiple
X-ray flares. The temporal rise and decay parameters of the flares are
consistent with the internal-shock mechanism. In addition to the Swift
coverage of GRB 050713A, we report on the Konus-Wind (K-W) detection of
the prompt emission, an upper limiting GeV measurement of the prompt
emission made by the MAGIC imaging atmospheric Cerenkov telescope, and
XMM-Newton observations of the afterglow. Simultaneous observations
with Swift XRT and XMM-Newton produce consistent results, showing a
break in the light curve at T0+~15 ks. Together, these four
observatories provide unusually broad spectral coverage of the prompt
emission and detailed X-ray follow-up of the afterglow for 2 weeks after
the burst trigger. Simultaneous spectral fits of K-W with BAT and BAT
with XRT data indicate that an absorbed broken power law is often a
better fit to GRB flares than a simple absorbed power law. These
spectral results together with the rapid temporal rise and decay of the
flares suggest that flares are produced in internal shocks due to
late-time central-engine activity.