Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2002-06-28
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 336 (2002) 803-807
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
12 pages, two missing references added, MNRAS, in press
Scientific paper
10.1046/j.1365-8711.2002.05814.x
Gamma-ray bursts may occur within pulsar wind bubbles (PWBs) under a number of scenarios, such as the supranova-like models in which the progenitor pulsar drives a powerful wind shocking against the ambient medium before it comes to death and produces a fireball. We here study the early afterglow emission from GRBs expanding into such a PWB environment. Different from the usual cold GRB external medium, the PWBs consist of a hot electron-positron medium with typical 'thermal' Lorentz factor of the order of gamma_w, the Lorentz factor of the pulsar particle wind. After GRB blast waves shock these hot electron-positron pairs, they will emit synchrotron radiation peaking at GeV bands. It is shown that GeV photons suffer negligible absorption by the soft photons radiation field in PWBs. Thus, strong GeV emissions in the early afterglow phases are expected, providing a plausible explanation for the long-duration GeV emission from GRB940217 detected by EGRET. Future GLAST may have the potential to test this GRB-PWB interaction model.
Dai Gao Z.
Lu Tan
Wang Xiang-Yu
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