Testing the fireball/blastwave model by monitoring afterglows from soft gamma repeaters
Astrophysics
2014-10-13 v1
Abstract
The popular fireball/blastwave model of classical gamma-ray bursts is applied to soft gamma-ray bursts. It is found that X-ray afterglows from strong events may be above their quiescent levels for 40 -- 400 seconds. Optical afterglows may also be detectable. By monitoring the three repeaters, we will have an ideal way to check the fireball/blastwave model.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0502452,
title = {Testing the fireball/blastwave model by monitoring afterglows from soft gamma repeaters},
author = {Y. F. Huang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0502452},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
A detailed version of astro-ph/9810449, published in 1998 in "Journal of Nanjing University" already; 6 figures, 11 pages