Computer Science
Scientific paper
Oct 2008
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008aipc.1065..169z&link_type=abstract
2008 NANJING GAMMA-RAY BURST CONFERENCE. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 1065, pp. 169-172 (2008).
Computer Science
Gamma-Ray Sources, Gamma-Ray Bursts, Plasma Reactions, Photometric, Polarimetric, And Spectroscopic Instrumentation
Scientific paper
The apparent spectral evolution observed in the steep decay phase of many GRB early X-ray afterglows raises a great concern of the high-latitude ``curvature effect'' interpretation of this phase. However, previous curvature effect models only invoked a simple power law spectrum upon the cessation of the prompt internal emission. We investigate the ``curvature effect'' model of a more general non-power-law spectrum and and test this model with the Swift/XRT observations By comparing the simulated lightcurves/spectra with the observed ones, we show that one can reproduce both the observed lightcurve and the apparent spectral evolution of GRB 050814 using a model invoking a cut-off power-law spectrum. This suggests that at least for some GRBs, the fast spectral evolution in the steep-decay phase can be explained by the curvature effect of a non-power-law spectrum.
Liang E.-W.
Wang Xiang-Yu
Zhang Bin-Bin
Zhang Bing
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