Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Scientific paper
2010-11-13
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
32 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables; some minor typo corrected, optical depth does not have significant contribution to the result,
Scientific paper
We present broadband (radio, optical, X-ray and GeV) fits to the afterglow light curves and spectra of three long-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs 080916C, 090902B, and 090926A) detected by the Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor (GBM) and Large Area Telescope (LAT) instruments on the Fermi satellite. Using the observed broadband data, we study the origin of the high energy emission, and suggest that the early-time GeV emission and the late-time radio, optical, and X-ray afterglows can be understood as being due to synchrotron emission from an external forward shock caused by structured ejecta propagating in a wind bubble jumping to a homogeneous density medium. If the ceasing time for majority of the energy injection is assumed to be close to the deceleration time of the forward shock, the structured ejecta with continuous energy injection to the forward shock can well explain the early rising feature of the GeV mission from these burst, and the density-jump medium can account for some certain plateaus or flares in the late afterglows. From our fits, we find that, on one hand, the external shock origin of the GeV photons will make the optical depth have not significant contribution to the early LAT rising part, which will loosen strong constraint of lower limits of Lorentz factor. On the other hand, these Fermi-LAT events preferentially occur in a low-density circumburst environment, in which case the Klein-Nishina cutoff will significantly suppress the Self-Synchrotron Compton (SSC) radiation. Such an environment might result from superbubbles or low-metallicity progenitor stars (which have a low mass-loss rate at late times of stellar evolution) of type Ib/c supernovae.
Dai Gao Z.
Feng Sheng-Ya
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