Afterglow Light Curves and Broken Power Laws: A Statistical Study
@article{Jhannesson2006AfterglowLC, title={Afterglow Light Curves and Broken Power Laws: A Statistical Study}, author={G. J{\'o}hannesson and G. Bjornsson and E. Gudmundsson}, journal={The Astrophysical Journal}, year={2006}, volume={640} }
In gamma-ray burst research, it is quite common to fit the afterglow light curves with a broken power law to interpret the data. We apply this method to a computer-simulated population of afterglows and find systematic differences between the known model parameters of the population and the ones derived from the power-law fits. In general, the slope of the electron energy distribution is overestimated from the prebreak light curve slope while being underestimated from the postbreak slope. We… CONTINUE READING
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