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Thermal radiation from hot polar cap in pulsars
Janusz Gil, George Melikidze, Bing Zhang
Thermal radiation from hot polar caps is examined in radio pulsars with drifting subpulses. It is argued that if these subpulses correspond to sparking discharges of the inner acce…
Astrophysics: A burst of new ideas
Bing Zhang
Gigantic cosmological gamma-ray bursts have fallen into a dichotomy of long and short bursts, each with a very different origin. The discovery of an oddball burst calls for a rethi…
Making a Short Gamma-Ray Burst from a Long one: Implications for the Nature of GRB 060614
Bing Zhang, Bin-Bin Zhang, En-Wei Liang +3
The absence of a supernova accompanying the nearby long GRB 060614 poses a great puzzle about the progenitor of this event and challenges the current GRB classification scheme. Thi…
Gamma-ray burst afterglows
Bing Zhang
Extended, fading emissions in multi-wavelength are observed following Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Recent broad-band observational campaigns led by the Swift Observatory reveal rich fe…
Temporal Profiles and Spectral Lags of XRF 060218
En-Wei Liang, Bin-Bin Zhang, Mike Stamatikos +5
The spectral and temporal properties of the non-thermal emission ofthe nearby XRF 060218 in 0.3-150 keV band are studied. We show that both the spectral energy distribution and the…
GRB Radiative Efficiencies Derived from the Swift Data: GRBs vs. XRFs, Long vs. Short
Bing Zhang, Enwei Liang, Kim L. Page +17
We systematically analyze the prompt emission and the early afterglow data of a sample of 31 GRBs detected by {\em Swift} before September 2005, and estimate the GRB radiative effi…