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arXiv 1808.01683astro-ph.HE
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用费米\Swift联合观测研究晚期高能GRB发射的性质

Investigating the Nature of Late-Time High-Energy GRB Emission Through Joint Fermi\Swift Observations

The Fermi LAT Collaboration

摘要:

利用尼尔·盖尔斯雨燕X射线望远镜(XRT)和费米大面积望远镜(LAT)对伽马射线暴(GRB)余辉的联合观测,研究费米LAT观测到的长寿命高能辐射的性质。XRT和LAT数据的联合宽带光谱建模显示,LAT未检测到明亮的X射线余辉与LAT和/或XRT能量范围以下推断的电子同步加速器光谱中的冷却中断一致。这种中断足以抑制高能量发射,以便低于LAT检测阈值。相比之下,LAT检测到的爆发是最适合的同步加速器光谱与冷却中断之间或以上的XRT和LAT的能量范围。我们推测,伽玛暴与LAT余辉检测和未检测到的人口之间的主要区别可能是在拱星环境中,这些突发发生的类型,与晚时间LAT检测优先选择伽玛暴发生在低风一样的环爆密度配置文件。此外,我们没有发现高能量发射的证据,在LAT检测到的人口显着超过预期的通量,从电子同步辐射光谱适合所观察到的X射线发射。在高能量下没有过量发射可能是由于受到冲击的外部介质,其中磁场中的能量密度比冲击后面的相对论电子的能量密度更强或可与冲击后面的相对论电子的能量密度相比,从而排除了LAT能量范围中的主导同步加速器自康普顿(SSC)分量的产生。或者,SSC发射的峰值可能超出本分析所考虑的0.1-100 GeV能量范围。

英文摘要:

We use joint observations by the Neil Gehrels Swift X-ray Telescope (XRT) and the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) of gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglows to investigate the nature of the long-lived high-energy emission observed by Fermi LAT. Joint broadband spectral modeling of XRT and LAT data reveal that LAT nondetections of bright X-ray afterglows are consistent with a cooling break in the inferred electron synchrotron spectrum below the LAT and/or XRT energy ranges. Such a break is sufficient to suppress the high-energy emission so as to be below the LAT detection threshold. By contrast, LAT-detected bursts are best fit by a synchrotron spectrum with a cooling break that lies either between or above the XRT and LAT energy ranges. We speculate that the primary difference between GRBs with LAT afterglow detections and the non-detected population may be in the type of circumstellar environment in which these bursts occur, with late-time LAT detections preferentially selecting GRBs that occur in low wind-like circumburst density profiles. Furthermore, we find no evidence of high-energy emission in the LAT-detected population significantly in excess of the flux expected from the electron synchrotron spectrum fit to the observed X-ray emission. The lack of excess emission at high energies could be due to a shocked external medium in which the energy density in the magnetic field is stronger than or comparable to that of the relativistic electrons behind the shock, precluding the production of a dominant synchrotron self-Compton (SSC) component in the LAT energy range. Alternatively, the peak of the SSC emission could be beyond the 0.1-100 GeV energy range considered for this analysis.

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