We present a numerical investigation of emission from the receding jet of gamma-ray bursts.It is found that the peak time of the receding jet emission is significantly affected by synchrotron self-absorption in radio wavelengths.However,the receding jet component is generally very weak.It is observable mainly for those nearby events in a dense environment.Although GRB 980703 has been observed in radio wavelengths for more than 1000 days,we argue that the receding jet emission still has not been detected for this event.Actually,it is completely submerged by the host galaxy.
WANG Xin,HUANG YongFeng & KONG SiWei Department of Astronomy,Nanjing University,Nanjing 210093,China
The Galactic hard X-ray transient SWIFT J195509+261406 was first observed as gamma-ray burst GRB 070610.Within 3 days after the burst,more than forty optical flares had been observed.Here,we propose that this peculiar event should be associated with a white dwarf.The hard X-ray burst itself may be triggered by a collision between two planets orbiting the white dwarf.Some cracked fragments produced in the collision then fell onto the surface of the white dwarf over several days,giving birth to the observed optical flares via cyclotron radiation.Our model can satisfactorily explain the basic features of the observations.
XU Ming & HUANG YongFeng Department of Astronomy,Nanjing University,Nanjing 210093,China
GRB 070610,which is also named Swift J195509.6+261406,is a peculiar Galactic transient with significant variability on short timescales in both X-ray and optical light curves.One possible explanation is that GRB 070610/Swift J195509.6 + 261406 is a soft gamma-ray repeater(SGR) in our Galaxy.Here,we use the fireball model,which is usually recognized as the standard model of gamma-ray burst(GRB) afterglows,and the energy injection hypothesis to interpret the X-ray and optical afterglow light curves of GRB 070610/Swift J195509.6 + 261406.It is found that the model is generally consistent with observations.
KONG SiWei & HUANG YongFeng Department of Astronomy,Nanjing University,Nanjing 210093,China
We investigate in detail the influence of parametrizations of the dark energy equation of state on reconstructing dark energy geometrical parameters,such as the deceleration parameter q(z) and Om diagnostic.We use a type Ia supernova sample,baryon acoustic oscillation data,cosmic microwave background information along with twelve observational Hubble data points to constrain cosmological parameters.With the joint analysis of these current datasets,we find that the parametrizations of w(z) have little influence on the reconstruction result of q(z) and Om.The same is true for the transition(cosmic deceleration to acceleration) redshift zt,for which we find that for different parametrizations of w(z),the best fitted values of zt are very close to each other(about 0.65).All of our results are in good agreement with the ΛCDM model.Furthermore,using the combination of datasets,we do not find any signal of decreasing cosmic acceleration as suggested in some recent papers.The results suggest that the influence of the prior w(z) is not as severe as one may anticipate,and thus we can,to some extent,safely use a reasonable parametrization of w(z) to reconstruct some other dark energy parameters(e.g.q(z),Om) with a combination of datasets.
