The Cannonball Model Of Long GRBs - Overview

Journal Article · Sun May 03 00:00:00 EDT 2009 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3141570· OSTI ID:21301146

Dado, Shlomo; Dar, Arnon ^[1]

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1. Physics Department, Technion, Haifa 32000 (Israel)

During the past ten years, the predictions of the cannonball (CB) model of gamma ray bursts (GRBs) were repeatedly confronted with the mounting data from space- and ground-based observations of GRBs and their afterglows (AGs). The two underlying radiation mechanisms of the model, inverse Compton scattering (ICS) and synchrotron radiation (SR), provided an accurate description of the prompt and afterglow emission in all of the many well-sampled GRBs that were studied. Simple as they are, these two mechanisms and the burst environment were shown to generate the observed rich structure of the GRB light-curves at all observed frequencies and times.

• OSTI ID: 21301146
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1111, Issue 1; Conference: CEFALU 2008: International conference on probing stellar populations out to the distant Universe, Cefalu, Sicily (Italy), 7-19 Sep 2008; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.3141570; (c) 2009 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS//MATHEMATICS, COMPUTING, AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
AFTERGLOW
COMPTON EFFECT
COSMIC GAMMA BURSTS
COSMIC GAMMA SOURCES
COSMIC PHOTONS
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
PHOTON EMISSION
SPACE
SYNCHROTRON RADIATION
VISIBLE RADIATION