MG13 - Talk detail |
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Pe'er, Asaf | |||||||
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Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics - 60 garden st., MS-51 - Cambridge - MA - USA | |||||||
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GRB2 |
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Oral abstract |
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Photospheres in GRBs: a critical overview | |||||
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Abstract |
I will review some key observables seen during GRB prompt emission phase. These include: the narrow distribution of the peak energy at the sub-MeV range, the peak energy - luminosity relation and the clustering of the low energy spectral slope index around <alpha>~-1. I will then confront the different theoretical suggestions with these observations, discussing: (1) optically thin emission models; (2) pure "Planck" spectra; (3) broadened "Planck" spectra, caused by (a) sub-photospheric heating, and (b) geometrical broadening. I will discuss the success and failure of each of these models in explaining the observed spectra. |
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GRB1 |
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Theory of photospheric emission in GRBs | |||||
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TBD |
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