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Coherent Radiation in Gamma-Ray Bursts and Relativistic Collisionless Shocks

Astrophysics 2009-11-13 v2

Abstract

We suggest that coherent radiation may occur in relativistic collisionless shocks via two-stream Weibel instabilities. The coherence amplifies the radiation power by many orders [1012\sim 10^{12} in Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs)] and particles cool very fast before being randomized. We imply (1) GRBs accompany strong infrared emission, (2) protons efficiently transfer energy to electrons and (3) prompt GRBs might be the upscattered coherent radiation.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0508498,
  title  = {Coherent Radiation in Gamma-Ray Bursts and Relativistic Collisionless Shocks},
  author = {Kunihito Ioka},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0508498},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

6 pages, accepted for publication in Progress of Theoretical Physics