Hot Relics in GRB Photosphere and GeV Photon Delay

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Photosphere, Gamma-Ray Sources (Astronomical), Astronomical Telescopes, Brightness, Photosphere, Gamma-Ray Sources, Gamma-Ray Bursts, Charge-Coupled Devices, Image Detectors, And Ir Detector Arrays, Luminosities, Magnitudes, Effective Temperatures, Colors, And Spectral Classification

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Collisionless entrainment of the surrounding matter imports the relativistic baryon component in the Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) fireball frame. We show that half the fireball energy can be transferred from radiation to the comoving hot motions of baryons under the photosphere. The yet baryon-poor fireball can re-expand to a very high Lorentz factor (VHLF) Γ~103-106 by its own relativistic collisionless pressure beyond the photosphere (so-called collisionless bulk-acceleration), leading to the internal and external shocks. A simple synchrotron emission from the VHLF internal shocks produces (i) the extra power-law spectral component with variability observed in the Fermi GeV bursts, up to the TeV range for the future Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), (ii) the GeV onset delay with a weak luminosity dependence tdelay~L-1/5, and (iii) the spectral break of GRB 090926 by the synchrotron cooling break or the maximum synchrotron cutoff limited by the dynamical time, not by the e+/- creation cutoff. The relativistic baryon component could also heat the photospheric thermal photons into the main GRB Band spectrum via pp, pγ (Bethe-Heitler and photomeson) and Coulomb thermalization processes. This hot photosphere-internal-external shock model predicts the anti-correlation of ~TeV neutrinos and GeV γ-rays, which may be detectable by IceCube. The spectral peak and luminosity (Yonetoku) relation is also reproduced if the progenitor stars are nearly identical.

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