Swift Discovery of Gamma-Ray Bursts without Jet Break Feature in their X-Ray Afterglows

Details Swift Discovery of Gamma-Ray Bursts without Jet Break Feature in their X-Ray Afterglows Swift Discovery of Gamma-Ray Bursts without Jet Break Feature in their X-Ray Afterglows

2006-11-04

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0611148v2

Astrophys.J.657:359-366,2007

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

24 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ; minor revision

Scientific paper

10.1086/510610

We analyze Swift gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and X-ray afterglows for three GRBs with spectroscopic redshift determinations -- GRB 050401, XRF 050416a, and GRB 050525a. We find that the relation between spectral peak energy and isotropic energy of prompt emissions (the Amati relation) is consistent with that for the bursts observed in pre-Swift era. However, we find that the X-ray afterglow lightcurves, which extend up to 10-70 days, show no sign of the jet break that is expected in the standard framework of collimated outflows. We do so by showing that none of the X-ray afterglow lightcurves in our sample satisfies the relation between the spectral and temporal indices that is predicted for the phase after jet break. The jet break time can be predicted by inverting the tight empirical relation between the peak energy of the spectrum and the collimation-corrected energy of the prompt emission (the Ghirlanda relation). We find that there are no temporal breaks within the predicted time intervals in X-ray band. This requires either that the Ghirlanda relation has a larger scatter than previously thought, that the temporal break in X-rays is masked by some additional source of X-ray emission, or that it does not happen because of some unknown reason.

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