Effects of a low electron distribution cutoff on multiwavelength spectra and light curves of GRB afterglows

2011/05/01 by Maria Petropoulou, M. Petropoulou, A. Mastichiadis +3 · 9 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #Cutoff #Distribution (mathematics) #Earth Systems and Cosmic Evolution #Electron #Gamma-ray burst #Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae #Light curve #Spectral energy distribution #Spectral line #astro-ph.HE

paper · pdf · doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201016088

published in Astronomy and Astrophysics 531, A76 (EDP Sciences) · 11 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics

arxiv created 2011/05/01 · openalex publication_date 2011/05/23 · arxiv updated 2015/05/28 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

Aims. We investigate the behavior of the frequency-centered light curves expected within the standard model of gamma ray bursts, allowing the maximum electron energy (γmax) to be a free parameter that may take low values.

Citations

• Fluid dynamics of relativistic blast waves
• Optical and Long‐Wavelength Afterglow from Gamma‐Ray Bursts
• Gamma-ray bursts and the fireball model
• Methods and results of an automatic analysis of a complete sample ofSwift-XRT observations of GRBs

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