Lieu 2007 宇宙空间引力对伽玛暴光变的影响

主要内容:
在jet不同位置（哪怕是相同纬度处）的光子在经过宇宙空间传播到观测者的过程中，由于引力势的不同，导致到达的时间会不同。

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文章信息:

astro-ph/0701659 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :

Title: The gravitational time delay effect of primordial matter on the light curve of a Gamma Ray Burst
Authors: Richard Lieu
Comments: 8 pages, 1 figure

The `rise time' of a gamma-ray burst, which may be defined as the radiation pulse width from a small segment of a fireball's spherical shell wherein second order effects like shell curvature are unimportant, is conventionally attributed to photon time delay across the thickness of the shell. If the intervening space between the observer and the fireball is inhomogeneous at the minimum level given by primordial density variations, two photons propagating towards us from opposite ends of this small segment along different directions will not arrive simultaneously even when they were emitted at the same depth, because of the gravitational potential gradient transverse to the light paths. The phenomenon is {\it first order} in the `off-axis' angle of the photon wavevector, and should not be ignored. We demonstrate that, for bulk fireball Lorentz factors of $\Gamma \sim$ 100 -- 300 this delay is usually much longer than that due to shell thickness, and can therefore potentially be used to scrutinize the standard cosmological model, by investigating whether a GRB emission code that incorporates the extra delay can still match observational data. If $\Gamma \gtrsim 10^3$, even the decaying tail of the GRB light curve will be a function of cosmology, because curvature delay at the shell will no longer be the only influence on the arrival times of photons emitted from angles $\sim 1/\Gamma$ near the edge of the jet.