GRBs Light Curves - Another Clue on the Inner Engine

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2002-02-21

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0202404v2

Astrophys.J. 572 (2002) L139-L142

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

5 pages submitted to Ap. J. Lett

Scientific paper

10.1086/341748

The nature of the `inner engine' that accelerate and collimate the relativistic flow at the cores of GRBs is the most interesting current puzzle concerning GRBs. Numerical simulations have shown that the internal shocks' light curve reflects the activity of this inner engine. Using a simple analytic toy model we clarify the relations between the observed $ \gamma $-rays light curve and the inner engine's activity and the dependence of the light curves on the inner engine's parameters. This simple model also explains the observed similarity between the observed distributions of pulses widths and the intervals between pulses and the correlation between the width of a pulse and the length of the preceding interval. Our analysis suggests that the variability in the wind's Lorentz factors arises due to a modulation of the mass injected into a constant energy flow.

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