Delayed Onset and Fast Rise of Prompt Optical-UV Emission from Gamma-Ray Bursts in Molecular Clouds

Observations imply that long \gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are originated from explosions of massive stars, therefore they may occur in the molecular clouds where their progenitors were born. We show here that the prompt optical-UV emission from GRBs may be delayed due to the dust extinction, which can well explain the observed optical delayed onset and fast rise in GRB 080319B. The density and the size of the molecular cloud around GRB 080319B are roughly constrained to be \sim10^3cm^{-3} and \sim 8pc, respectively. We also investigate the other GRBs with prompt optical-UV data, and find similar values of the densities and sizes of the local molecular clouds. The future observations of prompt optical-UV emission from GRBs in subsecond timescale, e.g., by UFFO-Pathfinder and SVOM-GWAC, will provide more evidence and probes of the local GRB environments.Comment: 15 pages, 5 figures, RAA 13 (2013) 57-70, typo correctio

QRD-Assisted Adaptive Modulation-Aided MIMO Systems

Abstract—In this paper, we propose QR-decomposition (QRD)-based adaptive modulation (AM)-aided multiple-input–multiple-output (MIMO) systems. The proposed algorithm yields a tight lower bound of the free distance (FD), which determines the error probability of the detector in thehigh-signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR) region. Thus, this QRD-based AM algorithm is capable of achieving near-optimal performance at low complexity because the full QRD, which imposes high complexity, is performed only once for each channel realization, regardless of the number of AM modes.Our simulation results show that the proposed algorithm exhibits a better bit-error-rate (BER) performance and reduced complexity compared with the existing algorithms