Flares in long and short gamma-ray bursts: a common origin in a hyperaccreting accretion disk

R Perna, PJ Armitage, B Zhang - The Astrophysical Journal, 2005 - iopscience.iop.org
The Astrophysical Journal, 2005iopscience.iop.org
Early-time X-ray observations of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) with the Swift satellite have
revealed a more complicated phenomenology than was known before. In particular, the
presence of flaring activity on a wide range of timescales probably requires late-time energy
production within the GRB engine. Since the flaring activity is observed in both long and
short GRBs, its origin must be within what is in common for the two likely progenitors of the
two classes of bursts: a hyperaccreting accretion disk around a black hole of a few solar …
Abstract
Early-time X-ray observations of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) with the Swift satellite have revealed a more complicated phenomenology than was known before. In particular, the presence of flaring activity on a wide range of timescales probably requires late-time energy production within the GRB engine. Since the flaring activity is observed in both long and short GRBs, its origin must be within what is in common for the two likely progenitors of the two classes of bursts: a hyperaccreting accretion disk around a black hole of a few solar masses. Here we show that some of the observational properties of the flares, such as the duration-timescale correlation, and the duration-peak luminosity anticorrelation displayed by most flares within a given burst, are qualitatively consistent with viscous disk evolution, provided that the disk at large radii either fragments or otherwise suffers large-amplitude variability. We discuss the physical conditions in the outer parts of the disk and conclude that gravitational instability, possibly followed by fragmentation, is the most likely candidate for this variability.
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