The photospheric origin of the Yonetoku relation in gamma-ray bursts

Ito, Hirotaka; Matsumoto, Jin; Nagataki, Shigehiro; Warren, Donald C.; Barkov, Maxim V.; Yonetoku, Daisuke

doi:10.1038/s41467-019-09281-z

Title: The photospheric origin of the Yonetoku relation in gamma-ray bursts

Journal Article · Wed Apr 03 00:00:00 EDT 2019 · Nature Communications

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09281-z· OSTI ID:1612504

Ito, Hirotaka ^[1];

^[2]; Nagataki, Shigehiro ^[1];

^[3]; Barkov, Maxim V. ^[4]; Yonetoku, Daisuke ^[5]

RIKEN, Saitama (Japan)
Univ. of Leeds (United Kingdom)
RIKEN, Saitama (Japan); Univ. of Leeds (United Kingdom)
RIKEN, Saitama (Japan); Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States)
Kanazawa Univ., Ishikawa (Japan)

Long duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), the brightest events since the Big Bang itself, are believed to originate in an ultra-relativistic jet breaking out from a massive stellar envelope. Despite decades of study, there is still no consensus on their emission mechanism. One unresolved question is the origin of the tight correlation between the spectral peak energy and peak luminosity discovered in observations. This Yonetoku relation is the tightest correlation found in the properties of the prompt phase of GRB emission, providing the best diagnostic for the radiation mechanism. Here we present three-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations, and post-process radiation transfer calculations, of photospheric emission from a relativistic jet. Our simulations reproduce the Yonetoku relation as a natural consequence of viewing angle. Although jet dynamics depend sensitively on luminosity, the correlation holds regardless. This result strongly suggests that photospheric emission is the dominant component in the prompt phase of GRBs.

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Research Organization:: Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC); National Science Foundation (NSF); JPS KAKENHI; National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0016369; JP16K21630; JP16KK0109; AST-1306672; 80NSSC17K0757; JP16H06342; JP18H04580

OSTI ID:: 1612504

Journal Information:: Nature Communications, Vol. 10, Issue 1; ISSN 2041-1723

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