Tuesday, August 28, 2012

1208.5287 (Daisuke Yonetoku et al.)

Magnetic Structures in Gamma-Ray Burst Jets Probed by Gamma-Ray
Polarization
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Daisuke Yonetoku, Toshio Murakami, Shuichi Gunji, Tatehiro Mihara, Kenji Toma, Yoshiyuki Morihara, Takuya Takahashi, Yudai Wakashima, Hajime Yonemochi, Tomonori Sakashita, Noriyuki Toukairin, Hirofumi Fujimoto, Yoshiki Kodama
We report polarization measurements in two prompt emissions of gamma-ray bursts, GRB 110301A and GRB 110721A, observed with the Gamma-ray burst polarimeter (GAP) aboard IKAROS solar sail mission. We detected linear polarization signals from each burst with polarization degree of $\Pi = 70 \pm 22$% with statistical significance of $3.7 \sigma$ for GRB 110301A, and $\Pi = 84^{+16}_{-28}$% with $3.3 \sigma$ confidence level for GRB 110721A. We did not detect any significant change of polarization angle. These two events had shorter durations and dimmer brightness compared with GRB 100826A, which showed a significant change of polarization angle, as reported in Yonetoku et al. (2011). Synchrotron emission model can be consistent with all the data of the three GRBs, while photospheric quasi-thermal emission model is not favorable. We suggest that magnetic field structures in the emission region are globally-ordered fields advected from the central engine.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.5287

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