A distance limit for a class of model gamma-ray burst sources

Details A distance limit for a class of model gamma-ray burst sources A distance limit for a class of model gamma-ray burst sources

Jun 1977

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Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

Flux (Rate), Gamma Ray Astronomy, Gamma Rays, Radiation Sources, Bursts, Electromagnetic Radiation, Photon Density

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Gamma ray burst sources are presumably not larger than 10 to the 9th power cm as inferred from observed flux variations. If they are homogeneous and isotropically radiating, then from photon density considerations, they would have to be optically thick due to gamma-gamma pair production when assumed to be too far away. Deviations of observed photo spectra from an exponential shape around 1 MeV lead to an upper limit of the possible distance of such sources of only 2 kpc from the sun. Thus the sources must be galactic unless the radiation is highly beamed or emerges from a relativistically moving shell. This conclusion depends only on observed parameters. The possible presence of particles and fields in the sources would require them to be even closer.

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