2002/03/31 by Ryo Yamazaki, Kunihito Ioka, Takashi Nakamura · 3 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1086/341225
published as Astrophys.J. 571 (2002) L31-L35 · 12 pages LaTeX, 3 figures
openalex publication_date 2002/05/20 · arxiv created 2002/12/28 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Ioka and Nakamura (2001) proposed a simple jet model that is compatible with the peak luminosity-spectral lag relation, the peak luminosity-variability relation and various other relations in the Gamma-Ray Bursts. If the viewing angle is much larger than the collimation angle of the jet in the model by Ioka and Nakamura, for appropriate model parameters we obtain the observational characteristics of the X-ray flashes, such as the peak flux ratio and the fluence ratio between the γ-ray (50-300 keV) and the X-ray band (2-10 keV), the X-ray photon index, the typical duration and the event rate ∼ 100 \rm yr-1. In our model, if the distance to the X-ray flashes is much larger than ∼ 1 Gpc (or z \gtrsim 0.2) they are too dim to be observed, so the spatial distribution of the X-ray flashes should be homogeneous and isotropic.