Issue |
Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Ser.
Volume 138, Number 3, September 1999
Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Afterglow Era Contents Rome, November 3-6, 1998
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Page(s) | 489 - 490 | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/aas:1999323 | |
Published online | 15 September 1999 |
Optical counterparts of cosmological GRBs due to heating of ISM in the parent galaxy
1
Space Research Institute, Profsoyuznaya 84/32, 117810 Moscow, Russia
2
Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Universitetskij pr. 13, 119899 Moscow, Russia
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Received:
21
January
1999
Accepted:
5
July
1999
We investigated influence of cosmological GRB on the surrounding
interstellar medium. It was shown that γ-radiation from the
burst heats interstellar gas to the temperatures K
up to the distance
pc. For high
density ISM, optical and UV radiation of the heated, gas can be
observed on the Earth several years as a GRB's counterpart.
Key words: gamma-rays: bursts
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