Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Scientific paper
2010-06-08
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
18 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal
Scientific paper
In this paper we have analyzed the temporal and spectral behavior of 52 Fast Rise and Exponential Decay (FRED) pulses in 48 long-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) observed by the CGRO/BATSE, using a pulse model with two shape parameters and the Band model with three shape parameters, respectively. It is found that these FRED pulses are distinguished both temporally and spectrally from those in long-lag pulses. Different from these long-lag pulses only one parameter pair indicates an evident correlation among the five parameters, which suggests that at least $\sim$4 parameters are needed to model burst temporal and spectral behavior. In addition, our studies reveal that these FRED pulses have correlated properties: (i) long-duration pulses have harder spectra and are less luminous than short-duration pulses; (ii) the more asymmetric the pulses are the steeper the evolutionary curves of the peak energy ($E_{p}$) in the $\nu f_{\nu}$ spectrum within pulse decay phase are. Our statistical results give some constrains on the current GRB models.
Bao Yongjun
Bi Xian-Wu
Fang L. M.
Ma Liangping
Peng Zhao-Yang
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