Fireball/Blastwave Model and Soft Gamma-ray Repeaters

Abstract

Soft gamma-ray repeaters are at determined distances and their positions are known accurately. If observed, afterglows from their soft gamma-ray bursts will provide important clues to the study of the so called "classical gamma-ray bursts". On applying the popular fireball/blastwave model of classical gamma-ray bursts to soft gamma-ray repeaters, it is found that their X-ray and optical afterglows are detectable. Monitoring of the three repeaters is solicited.

Already published in 1998 in "Chinese Physics Letters", replaced with the published version. See astro-ph/0502452 for a more detailed version

References in corpus (1)

• Discovery of the X-Ray Afterglow of the Gamma-Ray Burst of February 28 1997

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