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GRB Afterglow Light Curves from a Hydrodynamic Model

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2021-06-22 v1

Abstract

In this work, we have modeled the hydrodynamic evolution of the GRBs fireball in violent interaction with the external medium (the ISM) surrounding the burst source by assuming a power law distribution of the accelerated relativistic electrons. For this purpose, a computer code based only on the contribution of the predominant synchrotron radiation mechanism was developed. Light curves for the afterglow emissions following several GRBs over the X-ray and the visible R frequency bands were calculated. Their comparison to observed data by the XRT/Swift satellite and Earth telescopes, respectively, points out fair overall agreements, thus confirming the validity of our hydrodynamic simulation based on the model of Feng et al. (2002).

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@article{arxiv.2106.10495,
  title  = {GRB Afterglow Light Curves from a Hydrodynamic Model},
  author = {E. Zouaoui and M. Fouka and S. Ouichaoui},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.10495},
  year   = {2021}
}

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4 pages, 2 figures

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