Conical fireballs, cannonballs, and jet breaks in the afterglows of gamma ray bursts

Shlomo Dado; Arnon Dar

doi:doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201321876

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Issue		A&A Volume 558, October 2013


Article Number		A115
Number of page(s)		7
Section		Astrophysical processes
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201321876
Published online		15 October 2013

A&A 558, A115 (2013)

Conical fireballs, cannonballs, and jet breaks in the afterglows of gamma ray bursts

Shlomo Dado and Arnon Dar

Physics Department, Technion, 32000 Haifa, Israel

Received: 10 May 2013
Accepted: 17 August 2013

Abstract

The jet break in the X-ray afterglow of gamma ray bursts (GRBs) appears to be correlated to other properties of the X-ray afterglow and the prompt gamma ray emission, but the correlations are at odds with those predicted by the conical fireball (FB) model of GRBs. They are in good agreement, however, with those predicted by the cannonball (CB) model of GRBs.

Key words: gamma-ray burst: general

© ESO, 2013

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