Prompt and Delayed High-Energy Emission from Cosmological Gamma-Ray Bursts
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- 9 December 1998
Abstract
In the cosmological blast-wave model for gamma ray bursts (GRBs), high energy (> 10 GeV) gamma-rays are produced either through Compton scattering of soft photons by ultrarelativistic electrons, or as a consequence of the acceleration of protons to ultrahigh energies. We describe the spectral and temporal characteristics of high energy gamma-rays produced by both mechanisms, and discuss how these processes can be distinguished through observations with low-threshold Cherenkov telescopes or GLAST. We propose that Compton scattering of starlight photons by blast wave electrons can produce delayed flares of GeV -- TeV radiation.Keywords
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- Version 1, 1998-12-09, ArXiv
- Published version: Astroparticle Physics, 11 (1-2), 113.
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