Relationship between width of pulses and Lorentz factor expected from the light curve of fireball sources

doi:10.1088/1009-1963/14/11/023

中国物理B ›› 2005, Vol. 14 ›› Issue (11): 2276-2286.doi: 10.1088/1009-1963/14/11/023

Relationship between width of pulses and Lorentz factor expected from the light curve of fireball sources

覃一平¹, 张富文²

(1)National Astronomical Observatories/Yunnan Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650011, China;Physics Department, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China;; (2)National Astronomical Observatories/Yunnan Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650011, China;Physics Department, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China;Graduate School of The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

收稿日期:2004-12-23 修回日期:2005-01-31 出版日期:2005-11-20 发布日期:2005-11-20
基金资助:
Project partly supported by the Special Funds for Major State Basic Research Projects (973 Program) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No 10273019).

Relationship between width of pulses and Lorentz factor expected from the light curve of fireball sources

Zhang Fu-Wen (张富文)^abc, Qin Yi-Ping (覃一平)^ab

^a National Astronomical Observatories/Yunnan Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650011, China^b Physics Department, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China; ^c Graduate School of The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

Received:2004-12-23 Revised:2005-01-31 Online:2005-11-20 Published:2005-11-20
Supported by:
Project partly supported by the Special Funds for Major State Basic Research Projects (973 Program) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No 10273019).

摘要/Abstract

摘要： Time profiles of many gamma-ray bursts consist of distinct pulses, which provides a possibility of characterizing the temporal structure of these bursts. We employ a simple model of highly symmetric fireballs to analyse the effect of the expansion speed on the light curve arising from different forms of local pulses. The relationship between the ratio r of the FWHM width of the rising phase of the light curve to that of the decaying phase and the Lorentz factor is investigated. The analysis shows that, when the rest frame radiation form is ignored, temporal profiles of the light curve arising from pulses of fireballs will not be affected by the expansion speed (that is,r is almost a constant) as long as the fireball expands relativistically. When the rest frame radiation form is taken into account, there will be a break in the curves of r-\log\Ga. The location of the break depends mainly on the adopted value of the rest frame peak frequency \nu _{\rm 0,p}$. One would reach almost the same result when a jet is considered. In addition, we utilize a sample of 48 individual GRB pulses to check the relationship between the ratio r and the expansion speed Ga. We find no significant correlation between them, and this is consistent with the theoretical analysis.

关键词: gamma-ray bursts, gamma-rays, relativity

Abstract: Time profiles of many gamma-ray bursts consist of distinct pulses, which provides a possibility of characterizing the temporal structure of these bursts. We employ a simple model of highly symmetric fireballs to analyse the effect of the expansion speed on the light curve arising from different forms of local pulses. The relationship between the ratio r of the FWHM width of the rising phase of the light curve to that of the decaying phase and the Lorentz factor is investigated. The analysis shows that, when the rest frame radiation form is ignored, temporal profiles of the light curve arising from pulses of fireballs will not be affected by the expansion speed (that is, r is almost a constant) as long as the fireball expands relativistically. When the rest frame radiation form is taken into account, there will be a break in the curves of r$-$log$\varGamma$. The location of the break depends mainly on the adopted value of the rest frame peak frequency $\nu _{\rm 0,p}$. One would reach almost the same result when a jet is considered. In addition, we utilize a sample of 48 individual GRB pulses to check the relationship between the ratio r and the expansion speed $\varGamma$. We find no significant correlation between them, and this is consistent with the theoretical analysis.

Key words: gamma-ray bursts, gamma-rays, relativity

中图分类号: (γ-ray sources; γ-ray bursts)

98.70.Rz

95.30.Sf (Relativity and gravitation)

张富文, 覃一平. Relationship between width of pulses and Lorentz factor expected from the light curve of fireball sources[J]. 中国物理B, 2005, 14(11): 2276-2286.

Zhang Fu-Wen (张富文), Qin Yi-Ping (覃一平). Relationship between width of pulses and Lorentz factor expected from the light curve of fireball sources[J]. Chinese Physics, 2005, 14(11): 2276-2286.

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