Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2004-07-21
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
6 pages including 4 figures, MNRAS in press
Scientific paper
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.08164.x
Based on the standard energy reservoir of gamma-ray burst (GRB) jets and the relationship between peak energy ($E_p$) of $\nu F_{\nu}$ spectrum and the equivalent-isotropic energy ($E_{\rm{iso}}$), we test the GRB probability distributions as a function of viewing angle ($\theta$) and of viewing angle together with redshift $z$, $P(\theta)$ and $P(\theta,z)$, predicted by the universal-structured jet (USJ) model with simulations on observational bases for a detection threshold of $S>4 \times 10^{-5}$ erg cm$^{-2}$, where $S$ is the total fluence in an energy band $>20$ keV. We simulate a sample including $10^{6}$ GRBs, and then derive $P(\theta)$ and $P(\theta,z)$. We show that both simulated and theoretical $P(\theta)$ and $P(\theta,z)$ are consistent with each other. This consistency seems to be regarded as support for the USJ model. A small difference between the theoretical and simulated results might be due to the observed $E_p$ distribution used in our simulations, which perhaps suffers a little of biases for $E_p<100$ keV.
Dai Gao Z.
Liang E.-W.
Wu Xiu-Fang
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