XRF 020903

A. M. Soderberg et al. reported in GCN 1554 that they discovered a possible optical counterpart of the X-ray flash of 3 September 2002. Their additional observations revealed a brightening of the object, which they proposed to be a supernova associated with this XRF. If the optical transient is indeed associated with XRF020903, it is the first known optical afterglow of an XRF, and may be the most nearby cosmological high energy transient known yet (vsnet-campaign-sn 479). XRF 020903 WWW page by A.M. Soderberg et al. can be seen at: http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~ams/XrF.html [vsnet-campaign-sn 479]


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