The supercritical pile model for GRBs
Abstract
We present the basic notions of the "Supercritical Pile" model of Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs). This model is motivated by the need for a process that provides the dissipation necessary in GRBs and presents a well defined scheme for converting the energy stored in the relativistic protons of the Relativistic Blast Waves (RBW) associated with GRB into radiation; at the same time it leads to spectra which exhibit a peak in the burst νFν distribution at an energy Ep ≃ 1 MeV in the observer's frame, in agreement with observation and largely independent of the Lorentz factor Γ of the associated relativistic outflow.
- Publication:
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Advances in Space Research
- Pub Date:
- 2007
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.asr.2006.12.034
- Bibcode:
- 2007AdSpR..40.1250M