Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1998-10-18
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
20 pages, 3 figures, Submitted to ApJL
Scientific paper
10.1086/311850
The Gamma Ray Burst GRB920229 has four extreme and unprecedented properties; a rise in brightness with an e-folding time scale of $220 \pm 30 \mu s$, a fall in brightness with an e-folding time scale of $400 \pm 100 \mu s$, a large change in spectral shape over a time of $768 \mu s$, and a sharp spectral cutoff to high energies with $\Delta E/E = 18 %$. The rapid changes occur during a spike in the light curve which was seen 0.164 s after the start of the burst. The spectrum has a peak $\nu F_{\nu}$ at 200 keV with no significant flux above 239 keV, although the cutoff energy shifts to less than 100 keV during the decay of the spike. These numbers can be used to place severe limits on fireball models of bursts. The thickness of the energy production region must be smaller than $\sim 66 km$, ejected shells must have a dispersion of the Lorentz factor of less than roughly 1% along a particular radius, and the angular size of the radiation emission region is of order 1 arc-minute as viewed from the burst center. The physical mechanism that caused the sharp spectral cutoff has not been determined.
Schaefer Bradley E.
Walker Katharine C.
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