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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Laskar, Tanmoy
• Alexander, Kate D.
• Gill, Ramandeep
• Granot, Jonathan
• Berger, Edo
• Mundell, C. G.
• Duran, Rodolfo Barniol
• Bolmer, J.
• Duffell, Paul
• Eerten, Hendrik van
• Fong, Wen-fai
• Kobayashi, Shiho
• Margutti, Raffaella
• Schady, Patricia

Titel

ALMA Detection of a Linearly Polarized Reverse Shock in GRB 190114C

Ist Teil von

• Astrophysical journal. Letters, 2019-06, Vol.878 (1), p.L26

Ort / Verlag

Austin: The American Astronomical Society

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• We present Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array 97.5 GHz total intensity and linear polarization observations of the mm-band afterglow of GRB 190114C spanning 2.2-5.2 hr after the burst. We detect linear polarization at the 5 level, decreasing from = (0.87 0.13)% to (0.60 0.19)%, and evolving in polarization position angle from (10 5)° to (−44 12)° during the course of the observations. This represents the first detection and measurement of the temporal evolution of polarized radio/millimeter emission in a γ-ray burst. We show that the optical and X-ray observations between 0.03 days and ∼0.3 days are consistent with a fast-cooling forward shock expanding into a wind environment. However, the optical observations at 0.03 days, as well as the radio and millimeter observations, arise from a separate component, which we interpret as emission from the reverse-shocked ejecta. Using the measured linear polarization, we constrain the coherence scale of tangled magnetic fields in the ejecta to an angular size of θB 10−3 radian, while the rotation of the polarization angle rules out the presence of large-scale, ordered axisymmetric magnetic fields, and in particular a large-scale toroidal field, in the jet.