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The Surroundings of Gamma-Ray Bursts: Constraints on Progenitors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 September 2016

Roger A. Chevalier
Roger A. Chevalier*
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy, University of Virginia, P.O. Box 3818 Charlottesville, VA 22903, USArac5x@virginia.edu

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The association of a supernova with a gamma-ray burst (GRB 030329) implies a massive star progenitor, which is expected to have an environment formed by pre-burst stellar winds. Although some sources are consistent with the expected wind environment, many are not, being better fit by a uniform density environment. One possibility is that this is a shocked wind, close to the burst because of a high interstellar pressure and a low mass loss density. Alternatively, there is more than one kind of burst progenitor, some of which interact directly with the interstellar medium. Another proposed environment is a pulsar wind bubble that has expanded inside a supernova, which requires that the supernova precede the burst.

Type
Part VII Gamma-Ray Bursters
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 192: Cosmic Explosions , 2005 , pp. 441 - 450
Copyright
Copyright © Springer-Verlag 2005

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