The precession of eccentric discs in close binaries |
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| Authors: | J R Murray |
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| Institution: | Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, Via Bianchi 46, I–23807 Merate (Lc), Italy; SISSA, Via Beirut 2–4, I–34014 Trieste, Italy; Dipartimento di Fisica, Universitàdegli Studi di Milano, Via Celoria 16, I–20133 Milano, Italy |
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| Abstract: | If the emission of gamma-ray bursts were as a result of the synchrotron process in the standard internal shock scenario, then the typical observed spectrum should have a slope F ν ∝ ν ?1/2, which strongly conflicts with the much harder spectra observed. This directly follows from the cooling time being much shorter than the dynamical time. Particle re-acceleration, deviations from equipartition, quickly changing magnetic fields and adiabatic losses are found to be inadequate to account for this discrepancy. We also find that in the internal shock scenario the relativistic inverse Compton scattering is always as important as the synchrotron process, and faces the same problems. This indicates that the burst emission is not produced by relativistic electrons emitting synchrotron and inverse Compton radiation. |
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| Keywords: | radiation mechanisms: non-thermal gamma-rays: bursts X-rays: general |
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