Gamma-Ray Burst Spectral Correlations: Photospheric and Injection Effects

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2006-08-17

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0608363v2

Astrophys.J.652:1400-1415,2006

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

ApJ accepted, acknowledgement added

Scientific paper

10.1086/508410

We present a physical framework that can account for most of the observed spectral properties of the prompt gamma-ray burst emission. This includes the variety of spectral shapes, shape evolutions, and spectral correlations between flux and spectral peak, within bursts described by Borgonovo & Ryde, and among bursts described by Amati/Ghirlanda. In our proposed model the spectral peak is given by the photospheric emission from a relativistic outflow for which the horizon length is much smaller than the radial width. The observed duration of the thermal flash will be given by the radial light-crossing time. This then gives that the typical emission site is at ~10e11 cm from the center, with a Lorentz factor of ~300. This emission is accompanied by non-thermal emission from dissipation locations outside the photosphere. The relative strength of these two components depend on injection effects at the central engine leading to varying relative location of the saturation and photospheric radii. The total emission can then reproduce the observed variety. The spectral correlations are found by assuming that the amount of energy dissipated depends non-linearly on the averaged particle density. Beside the spectral correlations this also gives a description of how the relative strength of the thermal component varies with temperature within a burst.

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