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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 711, Issue 2, Pages 1073-1086Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/711/2/1073
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gamma-ray burst: general
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- NASA [NNX08AR44A]
- NASA [NNX08AR44A, 95648] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
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Spectral lag, the time difference between the arrival of high-energy and low-energy photons, is a common feature in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Norris et al. reported a correlation between the spectral lag and the isotropic peak luminosity of GRBs based on a limited sample. More recently, a number of authors have provided further support for this correlation using arbitrary energy bands of various instruments. In this paper, we report on a systematic extraction of spectral lags based on the largest Swift sample to date of 31 GRBs with measured redshifts. We extracted the spectral lags for all combinations of the standard Swift hard X-ray energy bands: 15-25 keV, 25-50 keV, 50-100 keV, and 100-200 keV and plotted the time dilation corrected lag as a function of isotropic peak luminosity. The mean value of the correlation coefficient for various channel combinations is -0.68 with a chance probability of similar to 0.7 x 10(-3). In addition, the mean value of the power-law index is 1.4 +/- 0.3. Hence, our study lends support to the existence of a lag-luminosity correlation, albeit with large scatter.
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