We present radio, optical/NIR, and X-ray observations of the afterglow of the
short-duration 130603B, and uncover a break in the radio and optical bands at
0.5 d after the burst, best explained as a jet break with an inferred jet
opening angle of 4-8 deg. GRB 130603B is only the third short GRB with a radio
afterglow detection to date, and the first time that a jet break is evident in
the radio band. We model the temporal evolution of the spectral energy
distribution to determine the burst explosion properties and find an
isotropic-equivalent kinetic energy of (0.6-1.7) x 10^51 erg and a circumburst
density of 5 x 10^-3-30 cm^-3. From the inferred opening angle of GRB 130603B,
we calculate beaming-corrected energies of Egamma (0.5-2) x 10^49 erg and EK
(0.1-1.6) x 10^49 erg. Along with previous measurements and lower limits we
find a median short GRB opening angle of 10 deg. Using the all-sky observed
rate of 10 Gpc^-3 yr^-1, this implies a true short GRB rate of 20 yr^-1 within
200 Mpc, the Advanced LIGO/VIRGO sensitivity range for neutron star binary
mergers. Finally, we uncover evidence for significant excess emission in the
X-ray afterglow of GRB 130603B at >1 d and conclude that the additional energy
component could be due to fall-back accretion or spin-down energy from a
magnetar formed following the merger.Comment: Submitted to ApJ; emulateapj style; 10 pages, 1 table, 3 figure
