Studying the variability of the X-ray spectral parameters of high-redshift GRBs' afterglows
arXiv:1909.01905 · doi:10.1002/asna.201813503
Abstract
The Swift satellite has observed more than a thousand GRBs with X-ray data. Almost a third of them have redshift measurement, too. Here we start to investigate the X-ray spectral fitting of the data considering the low energy part where the N(H) absorption happens. Based on the available more accurate input data we examined the robustness of previous fittings and tested how sensitive the changes of the starting parameters are. We studied the change of the intrinsic hydrogen column density during the outburst for a few events. No significant variability of N(H) column density was identified.
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