Testing the Predictions of the Universal-Structured Jet Model of Gamma-Ray Bursts by Simulations

Abstract

Based on the standard energy reservoir of gamma-ray burst (GRB) jets and the relationship between peak energy ($E_p$) of $νF_ν$ spectrum and the equivalent-isotropic energy ($E_{\rm{iso}}$), we test the GRB probability distributions as a function of viewing angle ($θ$) and of viewing angle together with redshift $z$, $P(θ)$ and $P(θ,z)$, predicted by the universal-structured jet (USJ) model with simulations on observational bases for a detection threshold of $S>4 \times 10^{-5}$ erg cm$^{-2}$, where $S$ is the total fluence in an energy band $>20$ keV. We simulate a sample including $10^{6}$ GRBs, and then derive $P(θ)$ and $P(θ,z)$. We show that both simulated and theoretical $P(θ)$ and $P(θ,z)$ are consistent with each other. This consistency seems to be regarded as support for the USJ model. A small difference between the theoretical and simulated results might be due to the observed $E_p$ distribution used in our simulations, which perhaps suffers a little of biases for $E_p<100$ keV.