A key to the spectral variability of prompt GRBs

Details A key to the spectral variability of prompt GRBs A key to the spectral variability of prompt GRBs

2006-01-16

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0601322v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages, Proceedings of "Swift-05" meeting, Washington, DC

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.2207882

We demonstrate that the rapid spectral variability of prompt GRBs is an inherent property of radiation emitted from shock-generated, highly anisotropic small-scale magnetic fields. We interpret the hard-to-soft evolution and the correlation of the soft index $\alpha$ with the photon flux observed in GRBs as a combined effect of temporal variation of the shock viewing angle and relativistic aberration of an individual thin, instantaneously illuminated shell. The model predicts that about a quarter of time-resolved spectra should have hard spectra, violating the synchrotron $\alpha=-2/3$ limit. The model also naturally explains why the peak of the distribution of $\alpha$ is at $\alpha\sim-1$. The presence of a low-energy break in the jitter spectrum at oblique angles also explains the appearance of a soft X-ray component in some GRBs and their paucity. We emphasize that our theory is based solely on the first principles and contains no ad hoc (phenomenological) assumptions.

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