Testing the fireball/blastwave model by monitoring afterglows from soft gamma repeaters
arXiv:astro-ph/0502452
Abstract
The popular fireball/blastwave model of classical gamma-ray bursts is applied to soft gamma-ray bursts. It is found that X-ray afterglows from strong events may be above their quiescent levels for 40 -- 400 seconds. Optical afterglows may also be detectable. By monitoring the three repeaters, we will have an ideal way to check the fireball/blastwave model.
A detailed version of astro-ph/9810449, published in 1998 in "Journal of Nanjing University" already; 6 figures, 11 pages