Year: 2000
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: The discovery of GRBs' afterglows has allowed us to establish several facts: their distance and energy scales, the fact that they are due to explosions, that the explosions are relativistic, and that the afterglow emission mechanism is synchrotron radiation. On the other hand, recent data have shown that the fireball model is wrong when it comes to the emission mechanism of the true burst (which is unlikely to be synchrotron again) and that shocks are not external. Besides these relatively tame points, I will also discuss the less well established physics of the energy deposition mechanism, as well as the possible burst progenitors.
Author: MARIO VIETRI
Language: English
Subfield: Astronomy and Astrophysics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2615053208