Diverse Features of the Multiwavelength Afterglows of Gamma-Ray Bursts: Natural or Special?

Figure 3

(a) Schematic illustration of the top-hat injection mode, in which  erg s⁻¹ (isotropic),  s, and  s. (b) Schematic illustration of the broken-power-law (see (4)) injection mode, in which  erg s⁻¹ (isotropic),  s,  s,  s, , , and . (c) and (d) show the corresponding afterglows of the two modes correspondingly. In the calculations, a redshift of is assumed. Similar plots can be found at [40].

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