Jet Breaks in Short Gamma-Ray Bursts. I: The Uncollimated Afterglow of GRB 050724

Abstract

We report the results of the \chandra observations of the \swift-discovered short Gamma-Ray Burst GRB 050724. \chandra observed this burst twice, about two days after the burst and a second time three weeks later. The first \chandra pointing occurred at the end of a strong late-time flare. About 150 photons were detected during this 49.3 ks observation in the 0.4-10.0 keV range. The spectral fit is in good agreement with spectral analysis of earlier \swift XRT data. In the second \chandra pointing the afterglow was clearly detected with 8 background-subtracted photons in 44.6 ks. From the combined \swift XRT and \chandra-ACIS-S light curve we find significant flaring superposed on an underlying power-law decay slope of $\alpha$=0.98${}_{-0.09}^{+0.11}$. There is no evidence for a break between about 1 ks after the burst and the last \chandra pointing about three weeks after the burst. The non-detection of a jet break places a lower limit of 25${}^{\circ }$ on the jet opening angle, indicating that the outflow is less strongly collimated than most previously-reported long GRBs. This implies that the beaming corrected energy of GRB 050724 is at least $4\times 10^{49}$ ergs.

7 pages, ApJ acceped, scheduled for December 20, 2006, ApJ, 653

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