Gamma ray bursts: Short vs. long

Details Gamma ray bursts: Short vs. long Gamma ray bursts: Short vs. long

Apr 2011

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011adspr..47.1332g&link_type=abstract

Advances in Space Research, Volume 47, Issue 8, p. 1332-1336.

Computer Science

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Short and long GRBs are thought to be two distinct classes based on their different duration and spectrum. Through the spectral analysis of two similarly selected samples of BATSE short and long GRBs, we show that short GRBs are harder than long events, confirming what found from the comparison of their hardness ratio. However, this spectral diversity seems to be due to a harder low energy spectral component of short GRBs, rather than a (slightly higher) peak energy. Interestingly short GRBs have a spectrum which is similar to the spectrum of the emission of the first 1-2 s of long events. We find evidence that short GRBs are inconsistent with the Epeak-Eiso correlation defined by long bursts while they follow the same Epeak-Liso correlation of long GRBs. These results, coupled to the similar variability timescale of short events and the first seconds of long ones, suggest that a common (or similar) dissipation mechanism could operate in both classes. The difference in the duration would then be due mainly to the central engine lifetime.

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