Emission Processes of High Energy Gamma Rays from Gamma-Ray Bursts

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2002-11-29

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0211644v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

9 pages, 3 eps figures embedded. Based on the talk presented at the Sixth Pacific Rim Conference on Stellar Astrophysics (Xi'a

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Synchrotron self-Compton (SSC) process in the reverse shocks of gamma-ray bursts is suggested to be responsible for the observed prompt high-energy gamma-ray emissions from several gamma-ray bursts. We find that the SSC emission from the reverse shocks dominates over other emission processes in energy bands from tens of MeV to tens of GeV, for a wide range of shock parameters. This model is favorable for escape of energetic photons from the emitting regions due to a lower internal pair-production optical depth, as the characteristic size of the reverse shock region is much larger than that of internal shocks. We predict that, in this model, the prompt high-energy emissions are correlated with the prompt optical flashes, which can be test in the forthcoming GLAST era.

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