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The First Detection of an Orphan Burst at the Rise Phase

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We report on the earliest detection of the optical transient MASTER OT J123248.62-012924.5 coincident within the error box with the optical and X-ray transient AT2021lfa/ZTF21aayokph. In our images the brightness of the object rises monotonically with \(7\sigma\) confidence. We interpret this transient as a gamma-ray burst (GRB) characterized by smooth optical self-similar (SOSS) emission, while the nondetection of gamma-ray emission at space observatories is interpreted in terms of the hypothesis of a ‘‘failed’’ GRB. Thus, this is the first detection of a nonmonotonic orphan burst.

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We devote this paper to the memory of our comrade and coauthor, Viktor Geral’dovich Kornilov, one of the key creators of the MASTER Global Network that passed away in May 2021. We thank the Moscow State University for support from its Development Program. V. Lipunov, E. Gorbovskoy, and N. Tyurina were supported by RFBR grant no 19-29-11011. N.M. Budnev was supported by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation (project no. 2020-0017). O.A. Gress was supported by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation (the State assignment Equipment FZZE-2020-0024), the UNU equipment ‘‘MSU-ISU Astrophysical Complex’’ was supported by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation (contract EV-075-15-2021-675). In this paper we used the data provided by the British Swift Science Data Center at the University of Leicester. In this paper we used the data from the European Space Agency (ESA) Gaia 3.0 mission processed by the Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (DPAC).

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Lipunov, V.M., Kornilov, V.G., Topolev, V.V. et al. The First Detection of an Orphan Burst at the Rise Phase. Astron. Lett. 48, 623–635 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063773722110093

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