2012/10/31 by Péter Veres, Bin-Bin Zhang, Péter Mészáros · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Acceleration #Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope #Fermi acceleration #Gamma-ray burst #Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #Radiation #Range (aeronautics) #Shock (circulatory) #Shock wave #astro-ph.HE
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/0004-637x/764/1/94
8 pages, 14 figures, corrected version, accepted by ApJ
arxiv created 2012/12/24 · openalex publication_date 2013/01/29 · arxiv updated 2015/06/11 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We consider gamma-ray burst models where the radiation is dominated by a photospheric region providing the MeV Band spectrum, and an external shock region responsible for the GeV radiation via inverse Compton scattering. We parameterize the initial dynamics through an acceleration law Γ∝ r μ , with μ between 1/3 and 1 to represent the range between an extreme magnetically dominated and a baryonically dominated regime, depending also on the magnetic field configuration. We compare these models to several bright Fermi -LAT bursts, and show that both the time-integrated and the time-resolved spectra, where available, can be well described by these models. We discuss the parameters which result from these fits, and discuss the relative merits and shortcomings of the two models.