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ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS
Volume 613, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
EDP SCIENCES S A
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201732245
Keywords
gamma-ray burst: general; radiation mechanisms: non-thermal; gamma-ray burst: individual: GRB 160625B
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- European Union [664931]
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in the United States
- Department of Energy in the United States
- Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique (CEA) in France
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) / Institut National de Physique Nucleaire et de Physique des Particules (IN2P3) in France
- Agenzia Spaziale Italiana in Italy
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare in Italy
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) in Japan
- High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) in Japan
- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) in Japan
- K. A. Wallenberg Foundation in Sweden
- Swedish research Council in Sweden
- Swedish National Space Board in Sweden
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We present time-resolved spectral analysis of prompt emission from GRB 160625B, one of the brightest bursts ever detected by Fermi in its nine years of operations. Standard empirical functions fail to provide an acceptable fit to the GBM spectral data, which instead require the addition of a low-energy break to the fitting function. We introduce a new fitting function, called 2SBPL, consisting of three smoothly connected power laws. Fitting this model to the data, the goodness of the fits significantly improves and the spectral parameters are well constrained. We also test a spectral model that combines non-thermal and thermal (black body) components, but find that the 2SBPL model is systematically favoured. The spectral evolution shows that the spectral break is located around E-break similar to 100 keV, while the usual vF(v) peak energy feature E-peak evolves in the 0.5-6MeV energy range. The slopes below and above E-break are consistent with the values -0.67 and -1.5, respectively, expected from synchrotron emission produced by a relativistic electron population with a low-energy cut-off. If E-break is interpreted as the synchrotron cooling frequency, the implied magnetic field in the emitting region is similar to 10 Gauss, i.e. orders of magnitudes smaller than the value expected for a dissipation region located at similar to 10(13-14) cm from the central engine. The low ratio between E-peak and E-break implies that the radiative cooling is incomplete, contrary to what is expected in strongly magnetized and compact emitting regions.
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