Heating and deceleration of GRB fireballs by neutron decay
Astrophysics
2009-11-10 v2
Abstract
Fireballs with high energy per baryon rest mass (> 400) contain a relatively slow neutron component. We show here that in this situation the thermal history of fireballs is very different from the standard adiabatic cooling.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0401355,
title = {Heating and deceleration of GRB fireballs by neutron decay},
author = {Elena M. Rossi and Andrei M. Beloborodov and Martin J. Rees},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0401355},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
5 pages, 2 figures; to appear in the Santa Fe GRB Conference Proceedings, 2003