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The updated E_peak - E_gamma correlation in GRBs

Astrophysics 2010-11-11 v1

Abstract

The recently discovered correlation between the rest frame GRB peak spectral energy EpeakE_{\rm peak} and the collimation corrected energy EγE_\gamma in long GRBs is potentially very important, yet awaits confirmation from an independent sample. It may help to shed light on the radiation mechanism of the prompt GRB phase and on the way -- and in which form -- the energy is released from the central engine. We here present some additional evidence for the correlation (two new bursts) and re-derive the best-fit parameters. The tightness of the correlation is confirmed (sigma=0.1 dex). We show that this correlation allows us, for the first time, to use GRBs as cosmological probes to constrain the expansion history of the universe.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0504184,
  title  = {The updated E_peak - E_gamma correlation in GRBs},
  author = {G. Ghirlanda and G. Ghisellini and D. Lazzati and C. Firmani},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0504184},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

4 pages, 1 figure, submitted to Il Nuovo Cimento (4th Workshop Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Afterglow Era, Rome, 18-22 October 2004). Additional material at http://www.merate.mi.astro.it/~ghirla/deep/blink.htm