Journal
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 419, Issue 1, Pages 614-623Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2011.19723.x
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gamma-ray burst: general
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- NSF [1002432]
- Office of Naval Research
- Fermi Guest Investigator grants
- GRB Temporal Analysis Consortium (GTAC)
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Spectral lag, which is defined as the difference in time of arrival of high- and low-energy photons, is a common feature in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Previous investigations have shown a correlation between this lag and the isotropic peak luminosity for long duration bursts. However, most of the previous investigations used lags extracted in the observer frame only. In this work (based on a sample of 43 Swift long GRBs with known redshifts), we present an analysis of the lagluminosity relation in the GRB source frame. Our analysis indicates a higher degree of correlation -0.82 +/- 0.05 (chance probability of similar to 5.5 x 10(-5)) between the spectral lag and the isotropic peak luminosity, L-iso, with a best-fitting power-law index of -1.2 +/- 0.2, such that L-iso proportional to lag(-1.2). In addition, there is an anticorrelation between the source-frame spectral lag and the source-frame peak energy of the burst spectrum, E-pk(1 + z).
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