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同步辐射中伽马射线暴瞬发的电子能谱

Electron Spectrum for the Prompt Emission of Gamma-ray Bursts in the Synchrotron Radiation Scenario

Kuan Liu, Da-Bin Lin, Jing Li, Yu-Fei Li, Rui-Jing Lu, En-Wei Liang

摘要:

越来越多的证据表明,同步辐射机制可能是伽马射线暴(GRB)瞬发的原因。在同步辐射方案中,瞬发发射的电子能谱在理论工作中是多种多样的,并且还没有以一般的方式从观测中估计(即,而不指定电子谱的特定物理模型)。在本文中,我们创造性地提出了一种方法,直接估计的瞬发辐射的电子光谱,而无需指定特定的物理模型的电子光谱在同步辐射的情况下。在该方法中,经验函数(即,在高能量下用一个线性函数连接的四阶Bezier曲线)来描述双对数坐标系中的电子能谱。结果表明,我们的经验函数可以很好地模拟许多数值计算或模拟中得到的电子能谱。然后,我们的方法可以计算出即时发射的电子光谱,而无需指定一个模型。以GRB 180720 B和GRB 160509 A为例,将我们的方法应用于观测,发现所得到的电子能谱与标准快冷情形下的电子能谱普遍不同,甚至打破了幂律。此外,在其低能量区的电子光谱的形态随时间而变化,在一个突发,甚至在脉冲。我们提出的方法提供了一个有价值的方式来对抗同步辐射机制与观测。

英文摘要:

Growing evidence indicates that the synchrotron radiation mechanism may be responsible for the prompt emission of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). In the synchrotron radiation scenario, the electron energy spectrum of the prompt emission is diverse in theoretical works and has not been estimated from observations in a general way (i.e., without specifying a certain physical model for the electron spectrum). In this paper, we creatively propose a method to directly estimate the electron spectrum for the prompt emission, without specifying a certain physical model for the electron spectrum in the synchrotron radiation scenario. In this method, an empirical function (i.e., a four-order Bezier curve jointed with a linear function at high-energy) is applied to describe the electron spectrum in log-log coordinate. It is found that our empirical function can well mimic the electron spectra obtained in many numerical calculations or simulations. Then, our method can figure out the electron spectrum for the prompt emission without specifying a model. By employing our method on observations, taking GRB 180720B and GRB 160509A as examples, it is found that the obtained electron spectra are generally different from that in the standard fast-cooling scenario and even a broken power law. Moreover, the morphology of electron spectra in its low-energy regime varies with time in a burst and even in a pulse. Our proposed method provides a valuable way to confront the synchrotron radiation mechanism with observations.

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