Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Scientific paper
2009-08-17
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
19 Pages, 11 Figures and 5 Tables; Accepted to The Astrophysical Journal
Scientific paper
Spectral lag, the time difference between the arrival of high-energy and low-energy photons, is a common feature in Gamma-ray Bursts (GRBs). Norris et al. 2000 reported a correlation between the spectral lag and the isotropic peak luminosity of GRBs based on a limited sample. More recently, a number of authors have provided further support for this correlation using arbitrary energy bands of various instruments. In this paper we report on a systematic extraction of spectral lags based on the largest Swift sample to date of 31 GRBs with measured redshifts. We extracted the spectral lags for all combinations of the standard Swift hard x-ray energy bands: 15-25 keV, 25-50 keV, 50-100 keV and 100-200 keV and plotted the time dilation corrected lag as a function of isotropic peak luminosity. The mean value of the correlation coefficient for various channel combinations is -0.68 with a chance probability of ~ 0.7 x 10^{-3}. In addition, the mean value of the power-law index is 1.4 +/- 0.3. Hence, our study lends support for the existence of a lag-luminosity correlation, albeit with large scatter.
Barthelmy Scott D.
Dhuga Kalvir S.
Eskandarian A.
Gehrels Neil
Maximon L. C.
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