Time-Evolution of Peak Energy and Luminosity Relation within Pulses for GRB 061007: Probing Fireball Dynamics

• Published in: Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan 2009-04, Vol.61 (2), p.201-211
• Main Authors: Ohno, Masanori, Ioka, Kunihito, Yamaoka, Kazutaka, Tashiro, Makoto, Fukazawa, Yasushi, Nakagawa, Yujin E.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• ISSN: 0004-6264; 2053-051X
• DOI: 10.1093/pasj/61.2.201

We performed a time-resolved spectral analysis of a bright, long gamma-ray burst GRB 061007 using Suzaku/WAM and Swift/BAT. Because of the large effective area of the WAM, we can investigate the time evolution of the spectral peak energy $E^{\rm t}_{ \rm peak}$ and the luminosity $L^{\rm t}_{\rm iso}$ with 1-s time resolution, and we find that the time-resolved pulses also satisfy the $E_{\rm peak}$ – $L_{\rm iso}$ relation, which was found for the time-averaged spectra of other bursts, suggesting the same physical conditions in each pulse. Furthermore, the initial rising phase of each pulse could be an outlier of this relation with higher $E^{\rm t}_{ \rm peak}$ value by a factor of 2. This difference could suggest that the fireball radius expands by a factor of 2–4 and/or bulk Lorentz factor of the fireball is decelerated by a factor of $\sim$ 4 during the initial phase, providing a new probe of fireball dynamics in real time.