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Analysis of GRB Closure Relationship in Multi-wavelengths

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2024-11-19 v1

Abstract

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are intense pulses of high-energy emission associated with massive stars' death or compact objects' coalescence. Their multi-wavelength observations help verify the reliability of the standard fireball model. We analyze 14 GRBs observed contemporaneously in gamma-rays by the \textit{Fermi} Large Area Telescope (LAT), in X-rays by the \textit{Swift} Telescope, and in the optical bands by \textit{Swift} and many ground-based telescopes. We study the correlation between the spectral and temporal indices using closure relations according to the synchrotron forward-shock model in the stratified medium (nrkn \propto r^{-k}) with kk ranging from 0 to 2.5. We find that the model without energy injection is preferred over the one with energy injection in all the investigated wavelengths. In gamma-rays, we only explored the ν>\nu > max\{νc,νm\nu_c,\nu_m\} (SC/FC) cooling condition (where νc\nu_c and νm\nu_m are the cooling and characteristic frequencies, namely the frequencies at the spectral break). In the X-ray and optical bands, we explored all the cooling conditions, including νm<ν<νc\nu_m < \nu < \nu_c (SC), νc<ν<νm\nu_c < \nu < \nu_m (FC), and SC/FC, and found a clear preference for SC for X-rays and SC/FC for optical. Within these cooling conditions, X-rays exhibit the highest rate of occurrence for the density profile with k=0k = 0, while the optical band has the highest occurrence for kk = 2.5 when considering no energy injection. Although we can pinpoint a definite environment for some GRBs, we find degeneracies in other GRBs.

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@article{arxiv.2411.10736,
  title  = {Analysis of GRB Closure Relationship in Multi-wavelengths},
  author = {M. G. Dainotti and S. Bhardwaj and E. Bissaldi and N. Fraija and S. Sourav and A. Galvan-Gamez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.10736},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

34 pages, 12 figures (two have 2 panels, two have a single panel, one has 14 panels, one has 17 panels, one has 10 panels, four has 15 panels, one has 6 panels), 10 tables (six have single panel, two have 2 panels, two have 3 panels). Accepted for publication in ApJ