Detecting Radio Afterglows of Gamma-Ray Bursts with FAST [HEAP]

http://arxiv.org/abs/1402.6810


Using the generic hydrodynamic model of Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) afterglows, we calculate the radio afterglow light curves of low luminosity, high luminosity, failed and standard GRBs in different observational bands of FAST’s energy window. The GRBs are assumed to be located at different distances from us. Our results show that the possibilities of detecting GRB radio afterglows decrease in order for high luminosity, standard, failed and low luminosity GRBs correspondingly. We predict that almost all types of radio afterglows except that of low luminosity GRBs could be observed by the worldwide largest radio telescope as long as the domains of time and frequency are appropriate. It is important to note that FAST can detect relatively weak radio afterglows at a higher frequency of 2.5 GHz for very high redshift up to z=15 or even more. Radio afterglows of low luminosity GRBs can be detected only if FAST is available in its second phase. We expect that FAST will largely expand the current sample of GRB radio afterglows in the near future.

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Z. Zhang, S. Kong, Y. Huang, et. al.
Fri, 28 Feb 14
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