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Spectral and temporal analysis of the joint Swift/BAT-Fermi/GBM GRB sample

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2015-06-03 v2

Abstract

Using the gamma-ray bursts simultaneously detected by Swift/BAT and Fermi/GBM we performed a joint spectral and temporal analysis of the prompt emission data and confirm the rough correlation between the BAT-band photon index Gamma_BAT and the peak spectral energy Epeak. With the redshift known sub-sample, we derived the isotropic gamma-ray energy E_gamma,iso and also confirm the E_gamma,iso - Epeak,rest relation, with a larger scatter than the Amati sample but consistent with GBM team analyses. We also compare the T_90 values derived in the GBM band with those derived in the BAT band and find that for long GRBs the BAT T_90 is usually longer than the GBM T_90, while for short GRBs the trend reverses. This is consistent with the soft/hard nature of long/short GRBs and suggests the importance of an energy-dependent temporal analysis of GRBs.

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@article{arxiv.1112.4363,
  title  = {Spectral and temporal analysis of the joint Swift/BAT-Fermi/GBM GRB sample},
  author = {Francisco Virgili and Ying Qin and Bing Zhang and Enwei Liang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1112.4363},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

18 pages, 9 figures, 3 tables, MNRAS accepted, spectral fits updated, conclusions unchanged