Soft X-ray emission lines in the early afterglow of gamma-ray bursts

Details Soft X-ray emission lines in the early afterglow of gamma-ray bursts Soft X-ray emission lines in the early afterglow of gamma-ray bursts

2002-04-18

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0204319v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

5 pages, 2 postscript figures, ApJL in press, minor changes due to space limitations

Scientific paper

10.1086/341448

We compute the luminosity of K_alpha emission lines produced by astrophysically abundant elements in the soft X-ray spectra of the early afterglow of gamma-ray bursts. We find that the detection of these lines can be a diagnostic for the geometrical set-up of the reprocessing material. In particular we can distinguish between a ``geometry dominated'' model, in which the line emission is coming from an extended region and its duration arises from light-travel-time effects and an ``engine dominated'' model, where the line emitting gas is in a smaller region, irradiated for a longer period. These lines therefore offer clues to the dynamics and time-scale of the explosion leading to a gamma-ray burst.

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