On the Shape of Pulse Spectra in Gamma-Ray Bursts

Details On the Shape of Pulse Spectra in Gamma-Ray Bursts On the Shape of Pulse Spectra in Gamma-Ray Bursts

1998-08-20

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9808213v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

7 pages, 6 postscript figures, accepted by the Astrophysical Journal

Scientific paper

10.1086/306818

The discovery (Liang & Kargatis 1996), that the peak energy of time-resolved spectra of gamma-ray burst (GRB) pulses decays exponentially with fluence, is analytically shown to imply that the time-integrated photon number spectrum of a pulse should have a unique shape, given by an underlying E^-1 behavior. We also show that the asymptotic low energy normalization of the time-integrated spectrum is equal to the exponential decay constant. We study analytically how this general behavior is modified in more realistic situations and show that diversity is then introduced in the properties of time-integrated GRB pulse spectra. We argue that further diversity will occur in time-integrated multi-pulse (complex) GRB spectra. The total energy received per cm^2 is approximately the decay constant times the maximum peak energy of the pulse. Our analytical results connect the properties of the time-integrated pulse spectrum with those of the time-resolved spectra, and can thus be used when studying observed GRB pulse spectra. We illustrate with the bright burst GRB 910807 and comment on GRB 910525 and GRB 921207.

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