Astroparticle Physics Seminar

Robert Mochkovitch, "The prompt emission of gamma-ray bursts: dissipation mechanisms and radiation processes"

Name: Robert Mochkovitch, "The prompt emission of gamma-ray bursts: dissipation mechanisms and radiation processes"
Start: 2022-05-20T10:30:00+02:00
End: 2022-05-20T12:30:00+02:00
Location: No location set

Friday 20 May 2022, 10:30 → 12:30 Europe/Berlin

Description

This will be a critical review of the various mechanisms/radiation processes
that have proposed to explain the prompt emission (internal shocks,
magnetic reconnection, photospheric emission/SSC, comptonization) with the
pros and cons for each.

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Robert Mochkovitch, "The prompt emission of gamma-ray bursts: dissipation mechanisms and radiation processes"