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| Title: |
| Polarimetry of the transient relativistic jet of GRB 110328 / Swift J164449.3+573451 |
| Authors: |
| Wiersema, K.; van der Horst, A. J.; Levan, A. J.; Tanvir, N. R.; Karjalainen, R.; Kamble, A.; Kouveliotou, C.; Metzger, B. D.;Russell, D. M.; Skillen, I.; Starling, R. L. C.; Wijers, R. A. M. J. |
| Publication: |
| eprint arXiv:1112.3042 |
| Publication Date: |
| 12/2011 |
| Origin: |
| ARXIV |
| Keywords: |
| Astrophysics - Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics |
| Comment: |
| 7 pages, 3 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS |
| Bibliographic Code: |
| 2011arXiv1112.3042W |
Abstract
We present deep infrared (Ks band) imaging polarimetry and radio (1.4 and 4.8 GHz) polarimetry of the enigmatic transient Swift J164449.3+573451. This source appears to be a short lived jet phenomenon in a galaxy at redshift z = 0.354, activated by a sudden mass accretion onto the central massive black hole, possibly caused by the tidal disruption of a star. We aim to find evidence for this scenario through linear polarimetry, as linear polarisation is a sensitive probe of jet physics, source geometry and the various mechanisms giving rise to the observed radiation. We find a formal Ks band polarisation measurement of P_lin = 7.4 +/- 3.5 % (including systematic errors). Our radio observations show continuing brightening of the source, which allows sensitive searches for linear polarisation as a function of time. We find no evidence of linear polarisation at radio wavelengths of 1.4 GHz and 4.8 GHz at any epoch, with the most sensitive 3 sigma limits as deep as 2.1%. These upper limits are in agreement with expectations from scenarios in which the radio emission is produced by the interaction of a relativistic jet with a dense circumsource medium. We further demonstrate how the polarisation properties can be used to derive properties of the jet in Swift J164449.3+573451, exploiting the similarities between this source and the afterglows of gamma-ray bursts.
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