| Issue |
A&A
Volume 424, Number 3, September IV 2004
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| Page(s) | L27 - L30 | |
| Section | Letters | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:200400047 | |
| Published online | 06 September 2004 | |
Letter to the Editor
The XMM-Newton observation of GRB 040106: Evidence for an afterglow in a wind environment
Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica/CNR, via fosso del cavaliere, 100, 00133, Roma, Italy e-mail: [gendre; piro; depasq]@rm.iasf.cnr.it
Received:
2
July
2004
Accepted:
28
July
2004
We present the XMM-Newton observation of GRB 040106. From the X-ray spectral index and temporal decay, we argue that the afterglow is consistent with a fireball expanding in a wind environment. A constant density environment is excluded by the data. This is one of the very few cases in which this conclusion can be drawn.
Key words: gamma-ray burst / X-ray: general
© ESO, 2004
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