The "fireshell" model and the "canonical" GRB scenario
Astrophysics
2008-11-26 v1
Abstract
In the "fireshell" model we define a "canonical GRB" light curve with two sharply different components: the Proper-GRB (P-GRB), emitted when the optically thick fireshell of electron-positron plasma originating the phenomenon reaches transparency, and the afterglow, emitted due to the collision between the remaining optically thin fireshell and the CircumBurst Medium (CBM). We outline our "canonical GRB" scenario, originating from the gravitational collapse to a black hole, with a special emphasis on the discrimination between "genuine" and "fake" short GRBs.
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@article{arxiv.0712.0495,
title = {The "fireshell" model and the "canonical" GRB scenario},
author = {Carlo Luciano Bianco and Maria Grazia Bernardini and Letizia Caito and Maria Giovanna Dainotti and Roberto Guida and Remo Ruffini},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0712.0495},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
4 pages, 5 figures, in the Proceedings of the "4th Italian-Sino Workshop on Relativistic Astrophysics", held in Pescara, Italy, July 20-28, 2007, C.L. Bianco, S.-S. Xue, Editors