• DOI:10.1086/303625
Corpus ID: 10462685

Optical and long wavelength afterglow from gamma-ray bursts

@article{Meszaros1997OpticalAL,
  title={Optical and long wavelength afterglow from gamma-ray bursts},
  author={P. Meszaros and M. Rees},
  journal={The Astrophysical Journal},
  year={1997},
  volume={476},
  pages={232-237}
}

P. Meszaros, M. Rees

Published 1997

Physics

The Astrophysical Journal

We discuss the evolution of cosmological gamma-ray burst remnants, consisting of the cooling and expanding fireball ejecta together with any swept-up external matter, after the gamma-ray event. We show that significant optical emission is predicted, which should be measurable for timescales of hours after the event, and in some cases radio emission may be expected days to weeks after the event. The flux at optical, X-ray, and other long wavelengths decays as a power of time, and the initial… CONTINUE READING

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