PoS - Proceedings of Science
Volume 461 - High Energy Phenomena in Relativistic Outflows VIII (HEPROVIII) - Posters
Can the Thermal Evolution of the Expanding Fireball Explain the GRB 221206B?
S. Gupta* and S. Sahayanathan
Full text: Not available
Abstract
The prompt phase emission mechanism of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRB) is still an open question. The GRB spectrum is often well-fitted by an empirical smooth broken power-law function termed as the Band model. However, with the detection of a large population of GRBs, it was realised the presence of a thermal component along with the non-thermal counterpart is evident in the prompt spectra. To understand the prompt emission from GRB, we perform a detailed study of the relativistically expanding fireball model with its temperature evolving as a function of its radius. The numerical code developed under this scenario is coupled with XSpec as a local model and used to fit the time-averaged spectrum of a recently detected GRB 221206B by Fermi-GBM. We find the spectra can be fitted with an expanding fireball model in combination with a power law. Our fit results suggest the emission is dominated by the thermal process with photospheric radius $r_{ph}$ of $13.64_{-0.07}^{0.08}$ log cm and photospheric temperature $T_{ph}$ of $658.5_{35.5}^{-50.4}$ keV.
How to cite

Metadata are provided both in "article" format (very similar to INSPIRE) as this helps creating very compact bibliographies which can be beneficial to authors and readers, and in "proceeding" format which is more detailed and complete.

Open Access
Creative Commons LicenseCopyright owned by the author(s) under the term of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.