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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-ph2002
Are X-ray flashes a peculiar class of (soft) gamma-ray bursts ?
Frederic Daigne, Celine Barraud, Robert Mochkovitch
Heise et al. (2001) have reported the identification of a new class of sources by Beppo-SAX, the so-called X-ray flashes (XRFs), which have many common properties with gamma-ray bu…