A unified picture for gamma-ray burst prompt and X-ray afterglow emissions

Details A unified picture for gamma-ray burst prompt and X-ray afterglow emissions A unified picture for gamma-ray burst prompt and X-ray afterglow emissions

2006-02-02

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0602060v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.Lett.367:L52-L56,2006

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

5 pages 3 figures. to appear in MNRAS letter

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1745-3933.2006.00138.x

Data from the Swift satellite has enabled us for the first time to provide a complete picture of the gamma-ray burst emission mechanism and its relationship with the early afterglow emissions. We show that gamma-ray photons for two bursts, 050126 & 050219A, for which we have carried out detailed analysis were produced as a result of the synchrotron self-Compton process in the material ejected in the explosion when it was heated to a mildly relativistic temperature at a distance from the center of explosion of order the deceleration radius. Both of these bursts exhibit rapidly declining early X-ray afterglow lightcurves; this emission is from the same source that produced the gamma-ray burst. The technique we exploit to determine this is very general and makes no assumption about any particular model for gamma-ray generation except that the basic radiation mechanism is some combination of synchrotron and inverse-Compton processes in a relativistic outflow. For GRB 050219A we can rule out the possibility that energy from the explosion is carried outward by magnetic fields, and that the dissipation of this field produced the $\gamma$-ray burst.

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