Heating and Deceleration of GRB Fireballs by Neutron Decay
Abstract
Fireballs with high energy per baryon rest mass (ɛ > ɛ* ~ 400) contain a relatively slow neutron component. We show here that in this situation the thermal history of fireballs is very different from the standard adiabatic cooling.
- Publication:
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Gamma-Ray Bursts: 30 Years of Discovery
- Pub Date:
- September 2004
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:astro-ph/0401355
- Bibcode:
- 2004AIPC..727..198R
- Keywords:
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- 98.70.Rz;
- 95.30.Cq;
- gamma-ray sources;
- gamma-ray bursts;
- Elementary particle processes;
- Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 5 pages, 2 figures