Researchers pinpoint origin of photons in mysterious gamma-ray bursts
2019-04-03
Press Release
Scientists from the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research and collaborators have used simulations to show that the photons emitted by long gamma-ray bursts—one of the most energetic events to take place in the universe—originate in the photosphere—the visible portion of the “relativistic jet” that is emitted by exploding stars.
Reference
- Hirotaka Ito, Jin Matsumoto, Shigehiro Nagataki, Donald C. Warren, Maxim V. Barkov & Daisuke Yonetoku, The photospheric origin of the Yonetoku relation in gamma-ray bursts, Nature Communications 10, 1504 (2019), doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-09281-z