Mathematics – Logic
Scientific paper
May 1998
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998aipc..428..765s&link_type=abstract
Fourth Huntsville gamma-ray burst symposium. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 428, pp. 765-770 (1998).
Mathematics
Logic
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Gamma-Ray Sources, Gamma-Ray Bursts, Radiation Mechanisms, Polarization
Scientific paper
Many cosmological models of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) assume that a single relativistic shell carries kinetic energy away from the source and later converts it into gamma rays, perhaps by interactions with the interstellar medium or by shocks within the shell. Although such models are able to reproduce general trends in GRB time histories, it is difficult to reproduce the high degree of variability often seen in GRBs. We investigate methods of achieving this variability using a simplified external shock model. Since our model emphasizes geometric and statistical considerations, rather than the detailed physics of the shell, it is applicable to any theory that relies on relativistic shells. We find that the variability in GRBs gives strong clues to the efficiency with which the shell converts its kinetic energy into gamma rays.
Fenimore Edward E.
Sumner Matthew. C.
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