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Black hole physics and astrophysics: The GRB-Supernova connection and URCA-1 - URCA-2

Astrophysics 2016-11-09 v1

Abstract

We outline the confluence of three novel theoretical fields in our modeling of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs): 1) the ultrarelativistic regime of a shock front expanding with a Lorentz gamma factor 300\sim 300; 2) the quantum vacuum polarization process leading to an electron-positron plasma originating the shock front; and 3) the general relativistic process of energy extraction from a black hole originating the vacuum polarization process. There are two different classes of GRBs: the long GRBs and the short GRBs. We here address the issue of the long GRBs. [...] We are specially interested, in this report, to a subclass of long GRBs which appear to be accompanied by a supernova explosion. We are considering two specific examples: GRB980425/SN1998bw and GRB030329/SN2003dh [...].

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0503475,
  title  = {Black hole physics and astrophysics: The GRB-Supernova connection and URCA-1 - URCA-2},
  author = {Remo Ruffini and Maria Grazia Bernardini and Carlo Luciano Bianco and Pascal Chardonnet and Federico Fraschetti and Vahe Gurzadyan and Luca Vitagliano and She-Sheng Xue},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0503475},
  year   = {2016}
}

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55 pages, 31 figures, to appear in the "Proceedings of the 10th Marcel Grossmann Meeting", World Scientific, in press