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        Detection of a spectral break in the extra hard component of GRB 090926A

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        Ackermann, M.
        Ajello, M.
        Asano, K.
        Axelsson, M.
        Baldini, L.
        Ballet, J.
        Barbiellini, G.
        Baring, M.G.
        Bastieri, D.
        Bechtol, K.
        Bellazzini, R.
        Berenji, B.
        Bhat, P.N.
        Bissaldi, E.
        Blandford, R.
        Bonamente, E.
        Borgland, A.W.
        Bouvier, A.
        Bregeon, J.
        Brez, A.
        Briggs, M.S.
        Brigida, M.
        Bruel, P.
        Buehler, R.
        Buson, S.
        Caliandro, G.A.
        Cameron, R.A.
        Caraveo, P.A.
        Carrigan, S.
        Casandjian, J.M.
        Cecchi, C.
        Celik, O.
        Chaplin, V.
        Charles, E.
        Chekhtman, A.
        Chiang, J.
        Ciprini, S.
        Claus, R.
        Cohen-Tanugi, J.
        Connaughton, V.
        Conrad, J.
        Cutini, S.
        Dermer, C.
        de Angelis, A.
        de Palma, F.
        Dingus, B.
        do Couto e Silva, E.
        Drell, P.S.
        Dubois, R.
        Favuzzi, C.
        Fegan, S.
        Ferrara, E.C.
        Focke, W.B.
        Frailis, M.
        Fukazawa, Y.
        Funk, S.
        Fusco, P.
        Gargano, F.
        Gasparrini, D.
        Gehrels, N.
        Giglietto, N.
        Giordano, N.
        Vilchez, N.
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        2299/5589
        Abstract
        We report on the observation of the bright, long gamma-ray burst,GRB 090926A, by the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) and Large Area Tele-scope (LAT) instruments on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. GRB 090926A shares several features with other bright LAT bursts. In particular, it clearly shows a short spike in the light curve that is present in all detectors that see the burst, and this in turn suggests that there is a common region of emission across the entire Fermi energy range. In addition, while a separate high-energy power-law component has already been observed in other GRBs, here we report for the first time the detection with good significance of a high-energy spectral break (or cutoff) in this power-law component around 1.4 GeV in the time-integrated spectrum. If the spectral break is caused by opacity to electron-positron pair production within the source, then this observation allows us to compute the bulk Lorentz factor for the outflow, rather than a lower limit.
        Publication date
        2011
        Published in
        The Astrophysical Journal
        Published version
        https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/729/2/114
        Other links
        http://hdl.handle.net/2299/5589
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