2005/11/03 by G. Chincarini, Chincarini, G., V. Mangano +24
Physics and Astronomy · #Astro and Planetary Science #Astronomy and Astrophysical Research #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0511107
6 pages, 9 figures. Proceedings of conference "The X-Ray Universe", San Lorenzo de El Escorial (Madrid, Spain), 26-30 September 2005
arxiv created 2005/11/03 · openalex publication_date 2005/11/03 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Following a brief introduction we show that the observations obtained so far with the Swift satellite begin to shed light over a variety of problems that were left open following the excellent performance and related discoveries of the Italian - Dutch Beppo SAX satellite. The XRT light curves show common characteristics that are reasonably understood within the framework of the fireball model. Unforeseen flares are however detected in a large fraction of the GRB observed and the energy emitted by the brightest ones may be as much as 85% of the total soft X ray emission measured by XRT. These characteristics seems to be common to long and short bursts.