Skip to content

GRB Spectral Hardness and Afterglow Properties

Jon Hakkila, Timothy Giblin, Robert D. Preece

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/0001339

Abstract

A possible relationship between the presence of a radio afterglow and gamma-ray burst spectral hardness is discussed. The correlation is marginally significant; the spectral hardness of the bursts with radio afterglows apparently results from a combination of the break energy Ebreak and the high-energy spectral index beta. If valid, this relationship would indicate that the afterglow does carry information pertaining to the GRB central engine.

Create a lesson