Detecting Radio Afterglows of Gamma-Ray Bursts with FAST
Abstract
Using the generic hydrodynamic model of Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) afterglows, we calculate the radio afterglow light curves of low luminosity, high luminosity, failed and standard GRBs in different observational bands of FAST's energy window. The GRBs are assumed to be located at different distances from us. Our results rank the detectability of GRBs in descending order as high luminosity, standard, failed and low luminosity GRBs. We predict that almost all types of radio afterglows except that of low luminosity GRBs could be observed by the large radio telescope as long as the domains of time and frequency are appropriate. It is important to note that FAST can detect relatively weak radio afterglows at a higher frequency of 2.5 GHz for very high redshift up to z=15 or even more. Radio afterglows of low luminosity GRBs can be detected only after the completion of the 2nd phase of FAST. FAST is expected to significantly expand the sample of GRB radio afterglows in the near future.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1402.6810,
title = {Detecting Radio Afterglows of Gamma-Ray Bursts with FAST},
author = {Zhi-Bin Zhang and Si-Wei Kong and Yong-Feng Huang and Di Li and Long-Biao Li},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1402.6810},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
16 pages, 8 figures (2 new figs added), 1 table; accepted by Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics