Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Sep 2011
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American Astronomical Society, HEAD meeting #12, #8.12
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
The leading radiation mechanisms for gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), as predicted by the standard GRB fireball model, include synchrotron radiation, synchrotron self-Compton (SSC), and inverse Compton scattering from thermal photons. Panchromatic observations during GRB prompt emission are important to distinguish the mechanisms. GRB 110205A, triggered by Swift, is also detected by Suzaku, ROTSE-IIIb and BOOTES telescopes when the GRB is still radiating gamma-rays. These panchromatic observations, covering 6 orders of energy range from 1 eV to 5 MeV, will be presented. We clearly discover an interesting two-break energy spectrum for the first time, roughly consistent with the synchrotron spectrum predicted by the standard GRB fireball model. The two break energies can be explained as νc, the synchrotron cooling frequency, and νm, the synchrotron typical frequency. With a sample of GRBs with optical prompt detections from ROTSE observations, one can also constrain the self-absorption frequency, νa. These detailed prompt observations are important to discriminate different mechanisms and thus lead us to a better and deeper understanding of the GRB fireball model.
This research is supported by the NASA grant NNX08AV63G and the NSF grant PHY-0801007.
with a larger Collaboration
Zheng Weikang
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