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Extremely bright GRB 160625B with multi-episodes emission: Evidences for long-term ejecta evolution

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2017-11-08 v2

Abstract

GRB 160625B is an extremely bright GRB with three distinct emission episodes. By analyzing its data observed with the GBM and LAT on board the {\em Fermi} mission, we find that a multi-color black body (mBB) model can be used to fit the spectra of initial short episode (Episode I) very well within the hypothesis of photosphere emission of a fireball model. The time-resolved spectra of its main episode (Episode II), which was detected with both GBM and LAT after a long quiet stage (180\sim 180 seconds) of the initial episode, can be fitted with a model composing of an mBB component plus a cutoff power-law (CPL) component. This GRB was detected again in the GBM and LAT bands with a long extended emission (Episode III) after a quiet period of 300\sim 300 seconds. The spectrum of Episode III is adequately fitted with a CPL plus a single power-law models, and no mBB component is required. These features may imply that the emission of three episodes are dominated by distinct physics process, i.e., Episode I is possible from cocoon emission surrounding the relativistic jet, Episode II may be from photosphere emission and internal shock of relativistic jet, and Episode III is contributed by internal and external shocks of relativistic jet. On the other hand, both X-ray and optical afterglows are consistent with standard external shocks model.

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@article{arxiv.1702.01382,
  title  = {Extremely bright GRB 160625B with multi-episodes emission: Evidences for long-term ejecta evolution},
  author = {Hou-Jun Lü and Jing Lü and Shu-Qing Zhong and Xiao-Li Huang and Hai-Ming Zhang and Lin Lan and Wei Xie and Rui-Jing Lu and En-Wei Liang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.01382},
  year   = {2017}
}

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28 pages, 14 figures, and 2 Tables. Accepted for publication in ApJ

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