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Relativistic fireballs: energy conversion and time-scales
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The expansion energy of a relativistic fireball can be reconverted into radiation when it interacts with an external medium. For expansion with Lorentz factors ≳ 103 into a typical galactic environment, the corresponding time-scale in the frame of the observer is of the order of seconds. This mechanism would operate in any cosmological scenario of gamma-ray bursts involving initial energies of order a per cent of a stellar rest mass, and implies photon energies and time-scales compatible with those observed in gamma-ray bursts.
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- Authors
- Rees, M. J., & Meszaros, P.
- Venue
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 1992-09-01
- Volume
- 258
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 41P-43P
- ISSN
- 0035-8711 (ISSN-L)
- 1365-2966
- OpenAlex
- W2050755767
- Cited by
- 910
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- FWCI
- 13.11
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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