Relativistic Outflows in Gamma Ray Bursts
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
Despite that gamma-ray bursts is a phenomenon quite different from accreting compact objects, it could be that their hard X-ray emission is associated with a very similar mechanism of energy dissipation. In both cases, we could deal with reconnection of a turbulent magnetic field with intensive e+e- pair production and quasi-thermal Comptonization.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9902203,
title = {Relativistic Outflows in Gamma Ray Bursts},
author = {Boris Stern},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9902203},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
15 pages; Invited review at the workshop "High Energy Processes in Accreting Black Holes", eds. J. Poutanen and R. Svensson, ASP Conf. Series, Vol. 161, p. 277