Synchrotron Cooling in Energetic Gamma Ray Bursts Observed by the Fermi GBM

Abstract

We study the time-resolved spectral properties of energetic gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) with good high-energy photon statistics observed by the Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor (GBM) onboard the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope. We aim to constrain in detail the spectral properties of GRB prompt emission on a time-resolved basis and to discuss the theoretical implications of the fitting results in the context of various prompt emission models.

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Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 573, A81, 20 pp.
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