Distortion of gamma-ray burst light curves by gravitational microlensing

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1997-01-30

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9701246v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

6 pages when LaTex'ed, with 5 figures included Accepted to MNRAS; replaced version contains psfigure.tex file, since psfig.tex

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If at cosmological distances, a small fraction of gamma-ray bursts should be multiply imaged by intervening galaxies or clusters, resulting in the appearance of two very similar bursts from the same location with a relative time delay of hours to a year. We show that microlensing by individual stars in the lensing galaxy can smear out the light curves of the multiply imaged bursts on millisecond time scales. Therefore, in deciding whether two bursts are similar enough to qualify as multiple images, one must look at time scales longer than a few tens of milliseconds, since shorter time scales are possibly rendered dissimilar by microlensing.

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