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GRB prompt emission polarization measurements using integral/IBIS

  • Diego Götz
  • , Philippe Laurent
  • , Francois Lebrun
  • , Frederic Daigne
  • , Željka Bošnjak
  • Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, CNRS and CEA
  • Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris
  • Institut Universitaire de France
  • Centre national de la recherche scientifique

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Abstract

We present the polarization measurements of the prompt emission of GRB 041219A obtained with IBIS on board INTEGRAL. For this very long and bright Gamma-Ray Burst we detected a time variable highly polarized signal in the 200-800 keV energy range. Our results favor GRB models where the prompt emission at these energies is produced by synchrotron radiation from a relativistic outflow with a magnetic field, which is coherent on an angular size comparable with the angular size of the emitting region (∼1/Γ).We also present results and the upper limits we obtained for fainter GRBs detected with INTEGRAL.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication12th Marcel Grossmann Meeting on Recent Dev. in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Astrophysics and Relativistic Field Theories - Proc. of the MG 2009 Meeting on General Relativity
PublisherWorld Scientific Publishing Co. Pte Ltd
Pages1604-1606
Number of pages3
ISBN (Print)9814374512, 9789814374514
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2012
Externally publishedYes
Event12th Marcel Grossmann Meeting on Recent Developments in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Astrophysics and Relativistic Field Theories, MG 2009 - Paris, France
Duration: 12 Jul 200918 Jul 2009

Publication series

Name12th Marcel Grossmann Meeting on Recent Dev. in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Astrophysics and Relativistic Field Theories - Proc. of the MG 2009 Meeting on General Relativity

Conference

Conference12th Marcel Grossmann Meeting on Recent Developments in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Astrophysics and Relativistic Field Theories, MG 2009
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityParis
Period12/07/0918/07/09

Keywords

  • Gamma-ray bursts
  • Polarization

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