Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1999-03-24
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Submitted to ApJ
Scientific paper
10.1086/307738
We calculate the prompt x-ray emission as a function of viewing angle for beamed Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) sources. Prompt x-rays are inevitable due to the less highly blueshifted photons emitted at angles greater than 1/gamma relative to the beam symmetry axis, where gamma is the expansion Lorentz factor. The observed flux depends on the combinations (gamma Delta theta) and (gamma theta_v), where (Delta theta) is the beaming angle and theta_v is the viewing angle. We use the observed source counts of gamma-ray-selected GRBs to predict the minimum detection rate of prompt x-ray bursts as a function of limiting sensitivity. We compare our predictions with the results from the Ariel V catalog of fast x-ray transients, and find that Ariel's sensitivity is not great enough to place significant constraints on gamma and (Delta theta). We estimate that a detector with fluence limit ~10^{-7} erg/cm^2 in the 2-10 keV channel will be necessary to distinguish between geometries. Because the x-ray emission is simultaneous with the GRB emission, our predicted constraints do not involve any model assumptions about the emission physics but simply follow from special-relativistic considerations.
Loeb Abraham
Woods Eric
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