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Oct 1989
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1989phrvl..63.1550w&link_type=abstract
Physical Review Letters (ISSN 0031-9007), vol. 63, Oct. 9, 1989, p. 1550-1553. Research supported by DOE.
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Astronomical Spectroscopy, Cyclotron Resonance, Gamma Ray Bursts, Neutron Stars, Resonance Scattering, Magnetic Fields, Magnetic Stars, Monte Carlo Method, Radiative Transfer, X Ray Spectra
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Fits of theoretical spectra from Monte Carlo radiation-transfer calculations to dips at approximately 20 and 40 keV in a spectrum of the gamma-ray burst source GB 880 205 give best-fit values and 68 percent-confidence intervals for the magnetic field of (1.71 + or - 0.07) x 10 to the 12th G, the electron density of (1.2 + or - 0.6) x 10 to the 21st electrons/cm-squared, and the cosine of the viewing angle relative to the field of 0.31 + or - 0.05. The dips observed at approximately 20 keV in the spectra are interpreted as cyclotron resonant scattering, in which electrons undergo radiative 0 to 1 to 0 Landau transitions initiated by photons near the first harmonic. Physical self-consistency fixes the temperature, and the equilibrium temperature equals 5.3 + 0.3 or - 0.2 keV. These results suggest that this gamma-ray burst and many others which exhibit a low-energy dip originate from strongly magnetic neutron stars and are galactic in origin.
Lamb Don Q.
Loredo Thomas J.
Salpeter Edwin E.
Wang John C. L.
Wasserman Ira M.
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