Development of the spectrum of gamma-ray burst pulses influenced by the intrinsic spectral evolution and the curvature effect

Details Development of the spectrum of gamma-ray burst pulses influenced by the intrinsic spectral evolution and the curvature effect Development of the spectrum of gamma-ray burst pulses influenced by the intrinsic spectral evolution and the curvature effect

2009-02-16

arxiv.org/abs/0902.2733v1

Chinese Physics B 18 (2009) 825-844

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

39 pages, 15 figures, accepted by Chinese Physics B

Scientific paper

10.1088/1674-1056/18/2/069

Spectral evolution of gamma-ray burst pulses assumed to arise from emission of fireballs is explored. It is found that, due to the curvature effect, the integrated flux and peak energy are well related by a power law in the decaying phase of pulses, where the index is about 3, being free of the intrinsic emission and the Lorentz factor. The spectrum of a pulse in its decaying phase differs slightly for different intrinsic spectral evolution patterns, indicating that it is dominated by the curvature effect. In the rising phase, the integrated flux keeps increasing whilst the peak energy remains unchanged when the intrinsic emission bears an unchanged spectrum. Within this phase, the flux decreases with the increasing of the peak energy for a hard-to-soft intrinsic spectrum, and for a soft-to-hard-to-soft intrinsic spectrum, the flux generally increases with the increasing of the peak energy. An intrinsic soft-to-hard-to-soft spectral evolution within a co-moving pulse would give rise to a pulse-like evolutionary curve for the peak energy.

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