The circumstellar environment of rotating Wolf-Rayet Stars and the implications for GRB afterglows.
If Wolf-Rayet stars are the progenitors of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), they must rotate rapidly to produce the GRB. This rotation may affect their stellar-wind bubbles and possibly explain why so many GRB afterglows occur in a constant density medium.
Eldridge
John J
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Astrophysics Research Centre, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, UK.