Gravitational Lensing of Relativistic Fireball
Astrophysics
2009-10-31 v1
Abstract
The gravitational lensing of a relativistic fireball can produce the time delayed multiple images with quite different spectra and temporal patterns in contrast with a nonrelativistic source and hence can imitate the source recurrence. In particular, the enigmatic four multiple gamma-ray bursts detected during two days at October 1996 in the same sky region may be due to a single fireball event multiply imaged by the foreground galactic nucleus or cluster of galaxies.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9912383,
title = {Gravitational Lensing of Relativistic Fireball},
author = {Eugeny Babichev and Vyacheslav Dokuchaev},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9912383},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
8 pages, 1 figure; accepted for publication in Phys.Lett.A