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Simulating Synchrotron Optical Flashes in the Reverse Shock of a Gamma Ray Burst

Creator:

Bice, Connor

Abstract:

We construct a Monte Carlo simulation in Python to calculate optical flashes at 5x10¹⁴ Hz peaking at 6x10³¹ erg s⁻¹Hz⁻¹St⁻¹ due to synchrotron radiation from the reverse shock of a gamma-ray burst’s jet. While analytical solutions to this problem exist, they rely on sweeping simplifications of what is necessarily a...

Resource Type:

Undergraduate Thesis