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Evidence of an Internal Dissipation Origin for the High-energy Prompt Emission of GRB 170214A
The origin of the prompt high-energy (MeV) emission of Gamma-ray Bursts
(GRBs), detected by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the Fermi Gamma-ray
Space Telescope, is still under debate, for which both the external shock
origin and internal dissipation origin have been suggested. In the internal
dissipation scenario, the high energy emission is expected to exhibit
significant temporal variability, tracking the keV/MeV fast variable behavior.
Here, we report a detailed analysis on the Fermi data of GRB~170214A, which is
sufficiently bright in the high energy to enable a quantitative analysis of the
correlation between high-energy emission and keV/MeV emission with high
statistics. Our result shows a clear temporal correlation between high-energy
and keV/MeV emission in the whole prompt emission phase as well as in two
decomposed short time intervals. Such correlation behavior is also found in
some other bright LAT GRBs, i.e., GRB 080916C, 090902B and 090926A. For these
GRBs as well as GRB 090510, we also find the rapid temporal variability in the
high-energy emission. We thus conclude that the prompt high-energy emission in
these bright LAT GRBs should be due to internal origin.Comment: 12 pages, 4 figures, Accepted for publication in Ap
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