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Diffuse Extragalactic Gamma Rays and Gamma Ray Bursts

Astrophysics 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

If gamma ray bursts produce a total energy of 10^54 ergs and this energy is concentrated on the high energy tail of the spectrum E> 1 TeV, then they may account for the observed diffuse extragalactic gamma ray emission for energies > 100 MeV. Such an energy could be released if the GRB's are produced by the burning of the total mass of a neutron star in a phase transition which violates baryon number.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9810231,
  title  = {Diffuse Extragalactic Gamma Rays and Gamma Ray Bursts},
  author = {R. A. Vázquez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9810231},
  year   = {2007}
}

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latex, 8 pages, no figures