CAN RELATIVISTIC BEAMING OF GAMMA-RAY BURSTS MIMIC COSMOLOGICAL TIME DILATION

被引:8
作者
YI, IS
MAO, SD
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[1] Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA 02138
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.72.3750
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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If gamma-ray bursts are at cosmological distances, durations and variability time scales of faint bursts are expected to be systematically longer than those of bright bursts due to cosmological time dilation. A recent analysis of data from the Burst and Transient Source Experiment (BATSE) reported detection of such a signal. We show that relativistic beaming can produce similar flux-duration relations both in the Galactic halo model and in the cosmological model with duration ranges comparable to the reported one.
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页码:3750 / 3753
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