2 papers
astro-ph2003
On the nature of X-ray Flashes
Robert Mochkovitch, Frederic Daigne, Celine Barraud +1
We have developed a toy model for internal shocks which has been used to generate a large number of synthetic GRBs in order to find in the parameter space the conditions which can…
astro-ph1999
The origin of the relativistic wind in gamma-ray bursts: MHD flow from a disk orbiting a stellar mass black hole ?
F. Daigne, R. Mochkovitch
We compute the mass loss rate from a disk orbiting a stellar mass black hole assuming the flow is guided along magnetic field lines attached to the disk. We then estimate the Loren…