Detection of GRB 090618 with RT-2 Experiment Onboard the Coronas-Photon Satellite
Abstract
We present the results of an analysis of the prompt gamma-ray emission from GRB 090618 using the RT-2 Experiment onboard the Coronas-Photon satellite. GRB 090618 shows multiple peaks and a detailed study of the temporal structure as a function of energy is carried out. As the GRB was incident at an angle of 77 degree to the detector axis, we have generated appropriate response functions of the detectors to derive the spectrum of this GRB. We have augmented these results using the publicly available data from the Swift BAT detector and show that a combined spectral analysis can measure the spectral parameters quite accurately. We also attempt a spectral and timing analysis of individual peaks and find evidence for a systematic change in the pulse emission characteristics for the successive pulses. In particular, we find that the peak energy of the spectrum, E_p, is found to monotonically decrease with time, for the successive pulses of this GRB.
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@article{arxiv.1012.0641,
title = {Detection of GRB 090618 with RT-2 Experiment Onboard the Coronas-Photon Satellite},
author = {A. R. Rao and J. P. Malkar and M. K. Hingar and V. K. Agrawal and S. K. Chakrabarti and A. Nandi and D. Debnath and T. B. Kotoch and R. Sarkar and T. R. Chidambaram and P. Vinod and S. Sreekumar and Y. D. Kotov and A. S. Buslov and V. N. Yurov and V. G. Tyshkevich and A. I. Arkhangelskij and R. A. Zyatkov and Sachindra Naik},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1012.0641},
year = {2011}
}
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12 pages, 6 figures, 3 tables, Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal