Time Evolution of Flares in GRB 130925A: Jet Precession in a Black Hole Accretion System
Abstract
GRB 130925A, composed of three gamma-ray emission episodes and a series of orderly flares, has been detected by Swift, Fermi, Konus-Wind, and INTEGRAL. If the third weakest gamma-ray episode can be considered a giant flare, we find that after the second gamma-ray episode observed by INTEGRAL located at about 2000 s, a positive relation exists between the time intervals of the adjacent flares and the time since the episode. We suggest that the second gamma-ray episode and its flares originate from the resumption of the accretion process due to the fragments from the collapsar falling back; such a relation may be related to a hyperaccretion disk around a precessed black hole (BH). We propose that the origin and time evolution of the flares, and the approximately symmetrical temporal structure and spectral evolution of the single flare can be explained well by a jet precession model. In addition, the mass and spin of the BH can be constrained, which indicates a stellar-mass, fast-rotating BH located in the center of GRB 130925A.
- Publication:
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The Astrophysical Journal
- Pub Date:
- January 2014
- DOI:
- 10.1088/2041-8205/781/1/L19
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1401.2699
- Bibcode:
- 2014ApJ...781L..19H
- Keywords:
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- accretion;
- accretion disks;
- black hole physics;
- gamma-ray burst: individual: GRB 130925A;
- Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
- E-Print:
- 19pages, 4 figures, accepted by ApJL