山东威海太阳物理国际研讨会(2002年8月5～12日,威海)

以国家自然科学基金委员会“九五”重点项目“太阳射电爆发频谱及其物理机制”、国家重点基础研究发展规划项目“太阳剧烈活动与空间灾害天气”子课题“太阳高能粒子的起源与输出”等研究为背     

Optical Flash of GRB 990123: Constraints on the Physical Parameters of the Reverse Shock

The optical flash accompanying GRB 990123 is believed to be powered by the reverse shock of a thin shell. With the best-fit physical parameters for GRB 990123 and the assumption that the parameters in the optical flash are the same as in the afterglow, we show that: 1) the shell is thick rather than thin, and we have provided the light curve for the thick shell case which coincides with the observation; 2) the theoretical peak flux of the optical flash accounts for only 3×10~-4 of the observed. In order to remove this discrepancy, the physical parameters, the electron energy and magnetic ratios, εe and εB, should be 0.61 and 0.39, which are very different from their values for the late afterglow.