Peak luminosity-spectral lag relation caused by the viewing angle of the collimated gamma-ray bursts

May, 2001
13 pages
Published in:
  • Astrophys.J.Lett. 554 (2001) L163
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Report number:
  • KUNS-1711

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Abstract: (arXiv)
We compute the kinematical dependence of the peak luminosity, the pulse width and the spectral lag of the peak luminosity on the viewing angle θv\theta_v of a jet. For appropriate model parameters we obtain the peak luminosity-spectral lag relation similar to the observed one including GRB980425. A bright (dim) peak with short (long) spectral lag corresponds to a jet with small (large) viewing angle. This suggests that the viewing angle of the jet might cause various relations in GRBs such as the peak luminosity-variability relation and the luminosity-width relation. Our model also suggests that X-ray rich GRBs (or X-ray flushes or Fast X-ray transients) are typical GRBs observed from large θv\theta_v with large spectral lag and low variability.
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