Precursor activity in bright long BATSE gamma-Ray Bursts

Details Precursor activity in bright long BATSE gamma-Ray Bursts Precursor activity in bright long BATSE gamma-Ray Bursts

2004-11-29

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0411753v2

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 357 (2005) 722-731

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

9 pages, 11 postscript figures, MNRAS in press

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2005.08687.x

We study a sample of bright long BATSE GRB light curves in the 200 s before the detection of the GRB prompt emission. We find that in a sizable fraction of cases (20 %) there is evidence of emission above the background coming from the same direction of the GRB. This emission is characterised by a softer spectrum with respect to the main one and contains a small fraction (0.1-1 %) of the total event counts. The precursors have typical delays of several tens of seconds extending (in few cases) up to 200 seconds (the limit of the investigated period). Their spectra are typically non-thermal power-law but for a few cases. Such long delays and the non-thermal origin of their spectra are hard to reconcile with any model for the progenitor.

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