Strongly Polarized Optical Afterglows of Gamma-Ray Bursts

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1999-05-21

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9905276v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

5 pages, submitted to ApJ

Scientific paper

10.1086/312323

The optical afterglows of the gamma ray bursts can be strongly polarized, in principle up to tens of percents, if: (i) the afterglow is synchrotron radiation from an ultra-relativistic blast, (ii) the blast is beamed during the afterglow phase, i.e. the shock propagates within a narrow jet, (iii) we observe at the right time from the right viewing angle, (iv) magnetic fields parallel and perpendicular to the jet have different proper strengths.

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