2010年10月
CAN WE PROBE THE LORENTZ FACTOR OF GAMMA-RAY BURSTS FROM GeV-TeV SPECTRA INTEGRATED OVER INTERNAL SHOCKS?
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
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- 巻
- 722
- 号
- 1
- 開始ページ
- 440
- 終了ページ
- 451
- 記述言語
- 英語
- 掲載種別
- 機関テクニカルレポート,技術報告書,プレプリント等
- DOI
- 10.1088/0004-637X/722/1/440
- 出版者・発行元
- IOP PUBLISHING LTD
We revisit the high-energy spectral cutoff originating from the electron-positron pair creation in the prompt phase of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) with numerical and analytical calculations. We show that the conventional exponential and/or broken power-law cutoff should be drastically modified to a shallower broken power law in practical observations that integrate emissions from different internal shocks. Since the steepening is tiny for observations, this "smearing" effect can generally reduce the previous estimates of the Lorentz factor of the GRB outflows. We apply our formulation to GRB 080916C, recently detected by the Large Area Telescope detector on the Fermi satellite, and find that the minimum Lorentz factor can be similar to 600 (or even smaller values), which is below but consistent with the previous result of similar to 900. Observing the steepening energy (the so-called "pair-break energy") is crucial to diagnosing the Lorentz factor and/or the emission site in future observations, especially current and future Cherenkov telescopes such as MAGIC, VERITAS, and CTA.
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- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/722/1/440
- arXiv
- http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:0904.4878
- Web of Science
- https://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=JSTA_CEL&SrcApp=J_Gate_JST&DestLinkType=FullRecord&KeyUT=WOS:000282908900039&DestApp=WOS_CPL
- URL
- http://arxiv.org/abs/0904.4878v2
- ID情報
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- DOI : 10.1088/0004-637X/722/1/440
- ISSN : 0004-637X
- arXiv ID : arXiv:0904.4878
- SCOPUS ID : 78149316230
- Web of Science ID : WOS:000282908900039