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| Gamma-ray burst afterglow optical polarimetry: looking at the shock front |
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Gamma-ray burst afterglow optical polarimetry: looking at the shock front |
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( INAF / Brera Astronomical Observatory) |
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Tuesday afternoon, June 22th, 4:00 p.m |
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Room 327, Office Block, 2 West Beijing Road (PMO, CAS) |
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( PMO Academic committee & academic circulating committee) |
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abstract
Gamma-ray bursts and their afterglows are thought to be produced by an ultrarelativistic jet. One of the most important open questions is the outflow composition: the energy may be carried out from the central source either as kinetic energy (of baryons and/or pairs), or in electromagnetic form (Poynting flux). While the total observable flux may be indistinguishable in both cases, its polarization properties are expected to differ markedly. The later time evolution of afterglow polarization is also a powerful diagnostic of the jet geometry. Again, with subtle and hardly detectable differences in the output flux, we have distinct polarization predictions.
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Copyright？ Purple Mountain Observatory, CAS, No.10 Yuanhua Road, Qixia District, Nanjing 210023, China
Phone: 0086 25 8333 2000 Fax: 8333 2091 http://english.pmo.cas.cn |
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