On the Spectral Lags of the Short Gamma-Ray Bursts

Details On the Spectral Lags of the Short Gamma-Ray Bursts On the Spectral Lags of the Short Gamma-Ray Bursts

2005-12-11

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0512270v2

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.367:1751-1756,2006

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

6 pages in MNRAS compact format, 7 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS, Jan. 18, 2006; references updated

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.10083.x

We present a detail analysis on the spectral lags of the short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and compare them with that of the long GRBs by using the CGRO/BATSE GRB Catalog. Our results are as follows. (1)The spectral lag distribution of the short GRBs is significantly different from that of the long GRBs. Excluding the statistical fluctuation effect, a proportion of ~17% of the short GRBs have a negative spectral lag, i.e., the hard photons being lag behind the soft photons. We do not find any peculiar features from their light curves to distinguish these bursts from those with a positive spectral lag. We argue that a more physical mechanism dominated the hard lag may be hid behind the morphological features of the light curves. This should be a great challenge to the current GRB models. We notice that this proportion is consistent with the proportion of short GRBs correlated with nearby galaxies newly discovered by Tanvir et al., although it is unclear if these short GRBs are indeed associated with the sources originated at low redshift. (2)While the spectral lags of the long GRBs are strongly correlated with the pulse durations, they are not for the short GRBs. However, the ratios of the spectral lag to the pulse duration for the short and long GRBs normally distributed at 0.023 and 0.046, respectively, with the sample width, indicating that the curvature effect alone could not explain the difference of the spectral lags between the two types of GRBs. The hydrodynamic timescales of the outflows and the radiative processes at work in GRBs might also play an important role as suggested by Daigne and Mochkovitch.

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