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Interpretations of multiple absorption features in a gamma-ray burst spectrum
The Astrophysical Journal1988Vol. 335, pp. L71–L71
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E. E. Fenimore, J. P. Conner, Richard I. Epstein, R. W. Klebesadel, J. G. Laros, A. Yoshida, Masami Fujii, Kentaro Hayashida, Minoru Itoh, T. Murakami, Jun Nishimura, Y. Yamagami, I. Kondò, N. Kawai
Abstract
The discovery reported by Mazets et al. in 1981 of single absorption lines at about 40 keV in the spectra of gamma-ray bursts observed by the Konus instrument implies magnetic fields ≡1012G and, hence, that the bursts occur on highly magnetized neutron stars. The authors report the detailed analysis of a burst (GB 880205) with double line features observed by the Ginga satellite. It is concluded that these lines are most reasonably interpreted as the first and second cyclotron harmonics in a magnetic field of ≡1.7×1012G with an electron column density of ≡3.6×1022cm-2. The narrowness of the absorption lines requires that they originate in a very cold, small area on the neutron star, probably distinct from the gamma-ray emitting region.
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