Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2000-06-04
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Accepted for publication in ApJL (2001, vol 542, L17)
Scientific paper
10.1086/312915
We study the power density spectrum (PDS) of artificial light curves of observed gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). We investigate statistical properties of GRB light curves by comparing the reported characteristics in the PDSs of the observed GRBs with those that we model, and discuss implications on interpretations of the PDS analysis results. Results of PDS analysis of observed GRBs suggest that the averaged PDS of GRBs follows a power law over about two decades of frequency with the power law index, -5/3, and the distribution of individual power follows an exponential distribution. Though an attempt to identify the most sensitive physical parameter has been made on the basis of the internal shock model, we demonstrate that conclusions of this kind of approach should be derived with due care. It is indicative that the physical information extracted from the slope can be misleading. We show that the reported slope and the distribution can be reproduced by adjusting the sampling interval in the time domain for a given decaying timescale of individual pulse in a specific form of GRB light curves. In particular, given that the temporal feature is modeled by a two-sided exponential function, the power law behavior with the index of -5/3 and the exponential distribution of the observed PDS is recovered at the 64 ms trigger time scale when the decaying timescale of individual pulse is $\sim 1$ second, provided that the pulse sharply rises. Another way of using the PDS analysis is an application of the same method to individual long bursts in order to examine a possible evolution of the decaying timescale in a single burst.
Chang Heon-Young
Yi Insu
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