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Long Duration X-Ray Flash and X-Ray Rich Gamma Ray Burst from Low Mass Population III Star

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2015-06-05 v2

Abstract

Recent numerical simulations suggest that Population III (Pop III) stars were born with masses not larger than 100M\sim 100 M_{\odot} but typically 40M\sim 40M_{\odot}. By self-consistently considering the jet generation and propagation in the envelope of these low mass Pop III stars, we find that a Pop III blue super giant star has the possibility to raise a gamma-ray burst (GRB) even though it keeps a massive hydrogen envelope. We evaluate observational characters of Pop III GRBs and predict that Pop III GRBs have the duration of 105\sim 10^5 sec in the observer frame and the peak luminosity of 5×1050ergsec1\sim 5 \times 10^{50} {\rm erg} {\rm sec}^{-1}. Assuming that the EpLpE_p-L_p (or EpEγ,isoE_p-E_{\gamma, \rm iso}) correlation holds for Pop III GRBs, we find that the spectrum peak energy falls \sim a few keV (or 100\sim 100 keV) in the observer frame. We discuss the detectability of Pop III GRBs by future satellite missions such as EXIST and Lobster. If the EpEγ,isoE_p-E_{\gamma, \rm iso} correlation holds, we have the possibility to detect Pop III GRBs at z9z \sim 9 as long duration X-ray rich GRBs by EXIST. On the other hand, if the EpLpE_p-L_p correlation holds, we have the possibility to detect Pop III GRBs up to z19z \sim 19 as long duration X-ray flashes by Lobster.

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@article{arxiv.1207.2835,
  title  = {Long Duration X-Ray Flash and X-Ray Rich Gamma Ray Burst from Low Mass Population III Star},
  author = {Daisuke Nakauchi and Yudai Suwa and Takanori Sakamoto and Kazumi Kashiyama and Takashi Nakamura},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1207.2835},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

27 pages, 7 figures, Accepted to the Astrophysical Journal