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The Energy Distribution of Long Duration GRBS
Tsvi Piran, Pawan Kumar, Alin Panaitescu +1
The energy release in gamma-ray bursts is one of the most interesting clues on the nature of their "inner engines". We show here that the total energy release in GRBs varies by les…
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Accretion Models of Gamma-Ray Bursts
Ramesh Narayan, Tsvi Piran, Pawan Kumar
Many models of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) involve accretion onto a compact object, usually a black hole, at a mass accretion rate of order a fraction of a solar mass per second. If th…