Is GRB 050904 a Superlong Burst? | Zendy

Yuan-Chuan Zou | Zendy; Zi-Gao Dai | Zendy; D. Xu | Zendy

AI Assistant Blog Pricing

Home ZAIA Blog

Open Access

Is GRB 050904 a Superlong Burst?

Author(s) -

Yuan-Chuan Zou,

Zi-Gao Dai,

D. Xu

Publication year - 2006

Publication title -

the astrophysical journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.376

H-Index - 489

eISSN - 1538-4357

pISSN - 0004-637X

DOI - 10.1086/504965

Subject(s) - gamma ray burst , physics , astrophysics , radiative transfer , shock (circulatory) , synchrotron , flare , optics , medicine

By considering synchrotron radiative process in the internal shock model andassuming that all internal shocks are nearly equally energetic, we analyze thegamma-ray burst (GRB) emission at different radii corresponding to differentobserved times. We apply this model to GRB 050904 and find that our analyticalresults can provide a natural explanation for the multi-band observations ofGRB 050904. This suggests that the X-ray flare emission and the opticalemission of this burst could have originated from internal shocks being due tocollisions among nearly-equally-energetic shells ejected from the centralengine. Thus GRB 050904 appears to be a burst with super-long central engineactivity.Comment: 16 pages, 4 figure. Submitted on Oct. 21, 2005, accepted by Ap

The content you want is available to Zendy users.

Already have an account? Click here to sign in.

Having issues? You can contact us here

Accelerating Research