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The most energetic gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are remarkable sources releasing huge amounts of energy on short timescales. Their prompt emission, which usually lasts few seconds, is so bright that it is visible across the whole observable…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-07 J-L. Atteia , V. Heussaff , J. -P. Dezalay , A. Klotz , D. Turpin , A. E. Tsvetkova , D. D. Frederiks , Y. Zolnierowski , F. Daigne , R. Mochkovitch

Gamma-ray bursts have the potential to produce the particle energies (up to $10^{21}$\,eV) and the energy budget ($10^{44}\, \rm{erg\, yr^{-1}\, Mpc^{-3}}$) to accommodate the spectrum of the highest energy cosmic rays; on the other hand,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-03-25 Julia K. Becker , Francis Halzen , Aongus O'Murchadha , Martino Olivo

In this paper, we propose observational methods for detecting lightning in protoplanetary disks. We do so by calculating the critical electric field strength in the lightning matrix gas (LMG), the parts of the disk where the electric field…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-16 Takayuki Muranushi , Eiji Akiyama , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka , Hideko Nomura , Satoshi Okuzumi

Gamma-ray data from Fermi-LAT reveal a bi-lobular structure extending up to 50 degrees above and below the galactic centre, which presumably originated in some form of energy release there less than a few million years ago. It has been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-08-26 Philipp Mertsch , Subir Sarkar

Because of the limited size of the satellite-borne instruments, it has not been possible to observe the flux of gamma ray bursts (GRB) beyond GeV energy. We here show that it is possible to detect the GRB radiation of TeV energy and above,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-19 J. Alvarez-Muniz , F. Halzen

The rate of terrestrial irradiation events by galactic gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is estimated using recent standard-energy results. We assume that GRBs accelerate high-energy cosmic rays, and present results of three-dimensional simulations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Charles D. Dermer , Jeremy M. Holmes

The prompt $\gamma$-rays of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) may originate from the photosphere of a relativistic jet. However, only a few GRBs have been observed with evident blackbody-like emission, for example, GRB~090902B. It has been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-22 Guo-Yu Li , Da-Bin Lin , Zhi-Lin Chen , En-Wei Liang

The high energy emission from Gamma-ray Bursts has some interesting features, including the absence of the GeV excess in the prompt spectrum, the delayed onset of the GeV emission, and the longer duration of the GeV emission than the prompt…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-16 Yi-Zhong Fan

Very-high-energy (VHE; >~100 GeV) gamma-rays are expected from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) in some scenarios. Exploring this photon energy regime is necessary for understanding the energetics and properties of GRBs. GRBs have been one of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-02-27 F. Aharonian

The photo-meson production of pions by shock-accelerated protons could generate a burst of ~10^14 eV neutrinos from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) observable in the Antarctic Muon and Neutrino Detector Array (AMANDA) or its larger successors.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Ryan C. Bay

Cosmic explosions dissipate energy into their surroundings on a very wide range of time-scales: producing shock waves and associated particle acceleration. The historical culprits for the acceleration of the bulk of Galactic cosmic rays are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 J. A. Hinton , R. L. C. Starling

The Solar Mass Ejection Imager (SMEI) views nearly every point on the sky once every 102 minutes and can detect point sources as faint as R~10th magnitude. Therefore, SMEI can detect or provide upper limits for the optical afterglow from…

Optical observations of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) contemporaneous with their prompt high-energy emission are rare, but they can provide insights into the physical processes underlying these explosive events. The Transiting Exoplanet Survey…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-10 Rahul Jayaraman , Michael Fausnaugh , George Ricker , Roland Vanderspek

Recent theoretical models suggest that young supernovae might be able to accelerate particles, which in turn might generate very high energy gamma-ray emission. We search for gamma-ray emission towards supernovae in nearby galaxies which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-20 R. Simoni , N. Maxted , M. Renaud , J. Vink , L. Tibaldo

Extended emission is a mystery in short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs). By making time resolved spectral analyses of brightest nine events observed by ${\it Swift}$ XRT, we obviously classify the early X-ray emission of SGRBs into two types. One…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-11-30 Yasuaki Kagawa , Daisuke Yonetoku , Tatsuya Sawano , Asuka Toyanago , Takashi Nakamura , Keitaro Takahashi , Kazumi Kashiyama , Kunihito Ioka

High-energy photons are a powerful probe for astrophysics and for fundamental physics under extreme conditions. During the recent years, our knowledge of the most violent phenomena in the Universe has impressively progressed thanks to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 Alessandro De Angelis , Oriana Mansutti , Massimo Persic

We present the detections of 19 solar flares detected in high-energy gamma rays (above 100 MeV) with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) during its first four years of operation. Interestingly, all flares are associated with fairly fast…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-22 LAT collaboration

Beamed gamma-ray burst (GRB) sources produce a bow shock in their gaseous environment. The emitted flux from this bow shock may dominate over the direct emission from the jet for lines of sight which are outside the angular radius of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Xiaohu Wang , Abraham Loeb

The Gamma Ray Burst (GRB) 180720B is one of the brightest events detected by the Fermi satellite and the first GRB detected by the H.E.S.S. telescope above 100 GeV. We analyse the Fermi (GBM and LAT) and Swift (XRT and BAT) data and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-22 M. Ronchi , F. Fumagalli , M. E. Ravasio , G. Oganesyan , M. Toffano , O. S. Salafia , L. Nava , S. Ascenzi , G. Ghirlanda , G. Ghisellini

The Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope has more than doubled the number of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) detected above 100 MeV within its first year of operation. Thanks to the very wide energy range covered by Fermi's Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM;…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Jonathan Granot