Time Resolved Spectral Analysis of Bright Gamma Ray Bursts

Details Time Resolved Spectral Analysis of Bright Gamma Ray Bursts Time Resolved Spectral Analysis of Bright Gamma Ray Bursts

2002-06-21

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0206377v1

Astron.Astrophys. 393 (2002) 409-424

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

15 pages, 15 postscript figures, 2 tables - Submitted revised version to A&A

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20021038

We present the time integrated and time resolved spectral analysis of a sample of bright bursts selected with F_{peak}>20 phot cm^{-2} sec^{-1} from the BATSE archive. We fitted four different spectral models to the pulse time integrated and time resolved spectra. We compare the low energy slope of the fitted spectra with the prediction of the synchrotron theory [predicting photon spectra softer than E^{-2/3}], and test, through direct spectral fitting, the synchrotron shock model. We point out that differences in the parameters distribution can be ascribed to the different spectral shape of the models employed and that in most cases the spectrum can be described by a smoothly curved function. The synchrotron shock model does not give satisfactory fits to the time averaged and time resolved spectra. Finally, we derive that the synchrotron low energy limit is violated in a considerable number of spectra both during the rise and decay phase around the peak.

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