X-Ray Flashes from Off-Axis Gamma-Ray Bursts

The Astrophysical Journal Letters Volume 57 Issue 1 Page L31-L35 published_at 2002-05
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Title ( eng )
X-Ray Flashes from Off-Axis Gamma-Ray Bursts
Creator
Yamazaki Ryo
Ioka Kunihito
Nakamura Takashi
Source Title
The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Volume 57
Issue 1
Start Page L31
End Page L35
Abstract
K. Ioka and T. Nakamura proposed a simple jet model that is compatible with the peak luminosity–spectral lag relation, the peak luminosity–variability relation, and various other relations in the gamma-ray bursts. If the viewing angle is much larger than the collimation angle of the jet in the model by Ioka and Nakamura, for appropriate model parameters we obtain the observational characteristics of the X-ray flashes, such as the peak flux ratio and the fluence ratio between the γ-ray (50–300 keV) and the X-ray (2–10 keV) band, the X-ray photon index, the typical duration, and the event rate, ∼100 yr-1. In our model, if the distance to the X-ray flashes is much larger than ∼1 Gpc (or z ≳ 0.2) they are too dim to be observed, so the spatial distribution of the X-ray flashes should be homogeneous and isotropic.
Keywords
gamma rays
bursts
theory
NDC
Astronomy. Space sciences [ 440 ]
Language
eng
Resource Type journal article
Publisher
Chicago University Press
Date of Issued 2002-05
Rights
Copyright (c) 2002 The American Astronomical Society
Publish Type Version of Record
Access Rights open access
Source Identifier
[ISSN] 0004-637X
[DOI] 10.1086/341225
[DOI] http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/341225 isVersionOf