A Cosmology Independent Calibratio n of Gamma-Ray Burst Luminosity Re lations and the Hubble Diagram Shuang-Nan Zhang Collaborators: Nan Liang, Wei-Ke Xiao, Yuan Liu, Tsinghua Center for Astrophysics , Tsingh ua University Paper accepted by ApJ arxiv: 0802.4262v4 [as tro-ph] July 10 July 10 th th , 2008 , 2008 Cosmic Reionization, KIAA, PKU Cosmic Reionization, KIAA, PKU
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A Cosmology Independent Calibration of Gamma-Ray Burst Luminosity Relations and
the Hubble Diagram
Shuang-Nan Zhang
Collaborators: Nan Liang, Wei-Ke Xiao, Yuan Liu,
Tsinghua Center for Astrophysics , Tsinghua University
Gamma Ray Bursts• Discovered in 1967 by Los Alamos Several per
day
• Last from ms to ~ 100 seconds
• Brightest gamma ray phenomenon
• Isotropic on sky (BATSE/CGRO)
• No repetitions
seconds
BATSE
Vela 4a
Isotropy: first sign of cosmological origin
Bimodality of GRB duration
Hardness ratio distribution
Light curves
GRB spectra (Schaefer et al. 1992, ApJ)
Epeak: peak energy
~several hundred keV
Gamma Ray Burst Breakthrough!
• BeppoSAX combination of wide field and narrow field instruments give 6-hr response to gamma ray burst – observations in 1997 revealed a fading X-ray afterglow– 20 mag optical afterglow identified from X-ray position– Afterglow decays as powerlaw with time
6 hours 48 hours
X-ray Images from BeppoSax
HST Image
X-ray Afterglow
Afterglow detection
HST Afterglow Detection
Broadband spectrum
The fireball model
Do you notice a small mistake on this picture?
Jet vs spherical geometry: light curve break
Opening angle and light curve break
Evidence for jet
GRB Luminosity Relations as “standard candles”
• GRB luminosity/energy relations are connections between measurable properties of the γ-ray emission with the luminosity or energy.
• Several GRB luminosity relations as distance indicators have been proposed, for those long and soft GRBs.
• Many authors have made use of these GRB luminosity indicators as “standard candles” at very high redshift for cosmology research.
see e.g. Ghirlanda, Ghisellini, & Firmani (2006), Schaefer (2007) for reviews
Five GRB Relations (Schaefer 2007, 69 GRBs)
lag - L relation(Norris, Marani, & Bonnell 2000)
Variability - L relation (Fenimore & Ramirez-Ruiz 2000)
Epeak- L relation (Schaefer 2003; Yonetoku et al. 2004) τRT - L relation (Schaefer, 2007)
E γ -Epeak relation (Ghirlanda, Ghisellini & Lazzati 2004)
Physical Explanations for the Eγ-Epeak relation
Synchrotron radiation + beaming correction (Dai, Liang & Xu 2004; Dai & Lu 2002; Zhang & Meszaros 2002)
Some attempts related to the use of GRBs for cosmology:
• SN Ia cosmology: cosmological model-independent
---- The Phillips relation can be calibrated with adequate sample at low-z.
• GRB cosmology: cosmological model-dependent
---- Difficult to calibrate the relations using a low-z sample. ---- Calibration of GRB relations : obtained by assuming a particular cosmological model.
The most important point related to GRB cosmology: → The dependence of the cosmological model to the calibration of GRB relations.
The circularity problem
• In order to investigate cosmology, the relations of standard candles should be calibrated in a cosmological model independent way.
→ Otherwise the circularity problem can not be avoided easily
• Many previous works treated this problem by means of statistical methods.
---- A simultaneous fit of the parameters in the calibration curves and the cosmology should be carried out.
---- Because a particular cosmology is required in doing the joint fitting, the problem can not be avoided completely.
The Cosmic Distance Ladder
Extra-galactic
Cepheids
H-z GRBCosmology
L-z SN IaStandard Candle
GalacticCepheids
M-z SN IaCosmology
M-z GRBStandard
Candle
zage
1.7 6.3
3.5 113.5 billion yrs
1998: Discovery of Dark Energy
1929: Discovery of cosmic expansion
• The distances of SN Ia obtained directly from observations are completely cosmological model independent.
• SNe Ia → GRBs :If the luminosity distance of GRBs can be obtained directly from the SN Ia data, we can calibrate the GRB relations in a cosmological model independent way.
A new method to calibrate GRB relations
• All types of sources at the same redshift should have the same luminosity distance for any certain cosmology.
• So many SN Ia samples → the luminosity distance for any object at any redshift (in SN Ia redshift range) can be obtained by interpolating from the Hubble diagram of SNe Ia.
→ If regarding SNe Ia as the first order standard candles, we can obtain the luminosity distance of GRBs (in SN Ia redshift range) and calibrate the relations in a completely cosmology independent way.
Calibration of GRB relations: cosmology independent
1(1) : log ( (1 ) / 0.1
(2) : log ( (1 ) / 0.02
(3) : log ( (1 ) / 300
(4) : log ( (1 ) / 300
(5)
lag lag
p p
p p
R
L L a b z s
V L L a b V z
L E L a b E z keV
E E E a b E z keV
1: log ( (1 ) / 0.1
---- the five GRB luminosity relations used in Schaefer (2007)
T RTL L a b z s
1
2
(6) : log ( (1 ) / 300
(7) : log ( (1 ) / 300
( /(1 ) /1
iso p iso p
iso p b iso p
b
E E E a b E z keV
E E t E a b E z keV
b t z day
We calibrate seven GRB relations with the sample at z<1.4
(Amati et al. 2002)
(Liang & Zhang 2005)
→ Results obtained by using the two interpolation methods are almost identical.
→ Results obtained by assuming the two cosmological models with the same sample differ
only slightly from those obtained by using interpolation methods.
Calibration results
Table 1. Calibration results for the 7 GRB relations with the sample at z<1.4.
Fig. 1. The Hubble Diagram of 192 SNe Ia and 69 GRBs
→ SNe Ia data (Davis et al. 2007), directly from observations, cosmology independent. These data used to interpolate the distance moduli of GRB low-z “data”,
→ GRB low-z “data”, interpolated from SN Ia data, (thus also cosmology independent). These data are used to calibrate the GRB “standard” candles.
→ GRB high-z “data” , obtained from the calibrated GRB “standard” candles (weighted average over 5 relations used in Schaefer 2007); These data are used to fit cosmological parameters at high-z.
• With the basic assumption that objects at the same redshift should have the same luminosity distance, the distance modulus of a GRB can be obtained by interpolating from the Hubble diagram of SNe Ia at z <1.4.
• We construct the GRB Hubble diagram and constrain cosmological parameters for 42 GRBs at 1.4<z<6.6
→ΩM = 0.25+0.04−0.05 (for the flat ΛCDM model)
→ w0 = −1.05+0.27−0.40 (for DE model with a constant EoS)
Which are consistent with the concordance model
(w0 = −1, ΩM = 0.27, ΩΛ = 0.73)
• Our method avoids the circularity problem completely, compared to previous cosmology-dependent calibration methods.
• Further examinations to the possible evolution effects and selection bias, as well as some unknown biases of SN Ia luminosity relations should be required for considering GRBs as standard candles to cosmological use.
We predicted that many GRBs should be produced at z > 10
Brighter GRBs produces harder photons, and are thus detectable from higher redshift
(Amati, 2006, MNRAS; 2002, A&A; Yonetoku et al., 2004, ApJ, 609, 935; Sakamoto et al., 2004, ApJ, 602, 875)