1999/02/15 by B. E. Stern, Boris Stern, Stern, Boris
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #Statistical and numerical algorithms #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9902203
15 pages; Invited review at the workshop "High Energy Processes in Accreting Black Holes", eds. J. Poutanen and R. Svensson, ASP Conf. Series, Vol. 161, p. 277
arxiv created 1999/02/15 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01
Despite that gamma-ray bursts is a phenomenon quite different from accreting compact objects, it could be that their hard X-ray emission is associated with a very similar mechanism of energy dissipation. In both cases, we could deal with reconnection of a turbulent magnetic field with intensive e+e- pair production and quasi-thermal Comptonization.