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A comprehensive analysis of Swift XRT data. III. Jet break candidates in x-ray and optical afterglow light curves

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作者Liang, En-Wei1,2; Racusin, Judith L.3; Zhang, Bing1; Zhang BB(张彬彬)1,4; Burrows, David N.3
刊名ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
出版日期2008-03
卷号675期号:1页码:528-552
关键词gamma rays : bursts radiation mechanisms : nonthermal x-rays
ISSN号0004-637X
产权排序第四完成单位
通讯作者Liang, EW (reprint author), Univ Nevada, Dept Phys & Astron, Las Vegas, NV 89154 USA.
英文摘要The Swift XRT data for 179 GRBs (050124 to 070129) and the optical afterglow data for 57 pre- and post-Swift GRBs are analyzed to explore whether the observed breaks in the afterglow light curves can be interpreted as jet breaks, as well as their implications for jet energetics. We find that no burst is included in our "Platinum" sample, in which the data fully satisfy the jet break criteria. By relaxing one or more of the requirements for a jet break, candidates to various degrees are identified. In the X-ray band, 42 of 103 well-sampled X-ray light curves have a decay slope greater than or similar to 1.5 in the postbreak segment (the "Bronze" sample), and 27 of these also satisfy the closure relations of the forward-shock models ("Silver" sample). The numbers of "Bronze" and "Silver" candidates in the optical light curves are 27 and 23, respectively. The X-ray break time is earlier than that in the optical bands. Among 13 bursts having both optical and X-ray light curves, only seven have an achromatic break, and even in these cases, only in one band do the data satisfy the closure relations ("Gold" sample). These results raise concerns about interpreting the breaks as jet breaks and further inferring GRB energetics. Assuming that the "Silver" and "Gold" breaks are jet breaks, we derive jet opening angles (theta(j)) and kinetic energies (E(K)) or lower limits on them and find that the EK distribution is much more scattered than the pre-Swift sample, but a tentative anticorrelation between theta(j) and E(K,iso) is found, indicating that the E(K) could still be quasi-universal.
WOS标题词Science & Technology ; Physical Sciences
学科主题Astronomy & Astrophysics
类目[WOS]Astronomy & Astrophysics
研究领域[WOS]Astronomy & Astrophysics
关键词[WOS]BURST AFTERGLOWS ; THEORETICAL IMPLICATIONS ; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS ; ACHROMATIC BREAKS ; RELATIVISTIC JETS ; ENERGY INJECTION ; FIREBALL MODEL ; HOST GALAXY ; GRB 970508 ; 1ST SURVEY
收录类别SCI
原文出处http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1086/524701/meta
语种英语
WOS记录号WOS:000253562000041
公开日期2016-06-01
源URL[http://ir.ynao.ac.cn/handle/114a53/9366]  
专题云南天文台_星系研究组
作者单位1.Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV 89154
2.Department of Physics, Guangxi University, Nanning, 530004 Guanxgi, China
3.Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802
4.National Astronomical Observatories/Yunnan Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 650011 Kunming, China
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Liang, En-Wei,Racusin, Judith L.,Zhang, Bing,et al. A comprehensive analysis of Swift XRT data. III. Jet break candidates in x-ray and optical afterglow light curves[J]. ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL,2008,675(1):528-552.
APA Liang, En-Wei,Racusin, Judith L.,Zhang, Bing,张彬彬,&Burrows, David N..(2008).A comprehensive analysis of Swift XRT data. III. Jet break candidates in x-ray and optical afterglow light curves.ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL,675(1),528-552.
MLA Liang, En-Wei,et al."A comprehensive analysis of Swift XRT data. III. Jet break candidates in x-ray and optical afterglow light curves".ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL 675.1(2008):528-552.

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