Detailed polarization measurements of the prompt emission of five gamma-ray bursts
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| 作者 | Zhang, Shuang-Nan1,2; Kole, Merlin3; Bao, Tian-Wei1; Batsch, Tadeusz4; Bernasconi, Tancredi5; Cadoux, Franck3; Chai, Jun-Ying1,2; Dai, Zi-Gao6,7; Dong, Yong-Wei1; Gauvin, Neal5 |
| 刊名 | NATURE ASTRONOMY
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| 出版日期 | 2019-03-01 |
| 卷号 | 3期号:3页码:258-264 |
| ISSN号 | 2397-3366 |
| DOI | 10.1038/s41550-018-0664-0 |
| 通讯作者 | Zhang, Shuang-Nan(zhangsn@ihep.ac.cn) ; Kole, Merlin(merlin.kole@unige.ch) |
| 英文摘要 | Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the strongest explosions in the Universe since the Big Bang. They are believed to be produced either in the formation of black holes at the end of massive star evolution(1-3) or the merging of compact objects(4). Spectral and timing properties of GRBs suggest that the observed bright gamma-rays are produced in the most relativistic jets in the Universe(4); however, the physical properties (especially the structure and magnetic topologies) of the jets are still not well known, despite several decades of studies. It is widely believed that precise measurements of the polarization properties of GRBs should provide crucial information on the highly relativistic jets(5). As a result, there have been many reports of GRB polarization measurements with diverse results (see ref. (6)); however, many such measurements suffer from substantial uncertainties, most of which are systematic (ref. (7) and the references therein). After the first successful measurements by the Gamma-Ray Burst Polarimeter (GAP) and Compton Spectrometer and Imager (COSI) instruments(8-10), here we report a statistically meaningful sample of precise polarization measurements, obtained with the dedicated GRB polarimeter POLAR onboard China's Tiangong-2 space laboratory. Our results suggest that the gamma-ray emission is at most polarized at a level lower than some popular models have predicted, although our results also show intrapulse evolution of the polarization angle. This indicates that the low polarization degrees could be due to an evolving polarization angle during a GRB. |
| WOS关键词 | INSTRUMENT PERFORMANCE ; SPECTRA ; MODELS |
| WOS研究方向 | Astronomy & Astrophysics |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 出版者 | NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP |
| WOS记录号 | WOS:000460567100018 |
| 源URL | [http://libir.pmo.ac.cn/handle/332002/23789]  |
| 专题 | 中国科学院紫金山天文台 |
| 通讯作者 | Zhang, Shuang-Nan; Kole, Merlin |
| 作者单位 | 1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst High Energy Phys, Key Lab Particle Astrophys, Beijing, Peoples R China 2.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Beijing, Peoples R China 3.Univ Geneva, Dept Nucl & Particle Phys, Geneva, Switzerland 4.Natl Ctr Nucl Res, Otwock, Poland 5.Univ Geneva, ISDC Geneva Observ, Versoix, Switzerland 6.Nanjing Univ, Sch Astron & Space Sci, Nanjing, Jiangsu, Peoples R China 7.Nanjing Univ, Key Lab Modern Astron & Astrophys, Minist Educ, Nanjing, Jiangsu, Peoples R China 8.Paul Scherrer Inst, Villigen, Switzerland 9.Chinese Acad Sci, Purple Mt Observ, Nanjing, Jiangsu, Peoples R China |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Zhang, Shuang-Nan,Kole, Merlin,Bao, Tian-Wei,et al. Detailed polarization measurements of the prompt emission of five gamma-ray bursts[J]. NATURE ASTRONOMY,2019,3(3):258-264. |
| APA | Zhang, Shuang-Nan.,Kole, Merlin.,Bao, Tian-Wei.,Batsch, Tadeusz.,Bernasconi, Tancredi.,...&Shi, Hao-Li.(2019).Detailed polarization measurements of the prompt emission of five gamma-ray bursts.NATURE ASTRONOMY,3(3),258-264. |
| MLA | Zhang, Shuang-Nan,et al."Detailed polarization measurements of the prompt emission of five gamma-ray bursts".NATURE ASTRONOMY 3.3(2019):258-264. |
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