Constraints on the emission mechanisms of gamma-ray bursts

Details Constraints on the emission mechanisms of gamma-ray bursts Constraints on the emission mechanisms of gamma-ray bursts

1999-12-22

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9912461v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

5 pages, accepted for publications in MNRAS, pink pages

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.2000.03354.x

If the emission of gamma-ray bursts were due to the synchrotron process in the standard internal shock scenario, then the typical observed spectrum should have a slope F(nu) \propto nu^{-1/2}, which strongly conflicts with the much harder spectra observed. This directly follows from the cooling time being much shorter than the dynamical time. Particle re-acceleration, deviations from equipartition, fastly changing magnetic fields and adiabatic losses are found to be inadequate to account for this discrepancy. We also find that in the internal shock scenario the relativistic inverse Compton scattering is always as important as the synchrotron process, and faces the same problems. This indicates that the burst emission is not produced by relativistic electrons emitting synchrotron and inverse Compton radiation.

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