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Long duration Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) originate from the core collapse of massive stars, but the identity of the central engine remains elusive. Previous work has shown that rapidly spinning, strongly magnetized proto-neutron stars…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 B. D. Metzger , D. Giannios , T. A. Thompson , N. Bucciantini , E. Quataert

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are cosmic events occurring at large distances beyond our galaxy. They provide a unique opportunity to study electromagnetic patterns not seen elsewhere. When the collimated GRB outflow interacts with the outer…

We present a comprehensive multi-wavelength study of a bright gamma-ray burst GRB 230204B, analyzing both prompt and afterglow emissions. This GRB is highly energetic, with an isotropic equivalent energy emission $E_{\mathrm{iso}} \sim 2.2…

This paper examines the possibility that hadronic processes produce the >100 MeV photons in the prompt phase of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) observed by the Fermi-LAT. We calculate analytically the radiation from protons and from secondary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Patrick Crumley , Pawan Kumar

Recent results of the hectic research activity about gamma-ray bursts will be reviewed, with emphasis about the emission processes at the origin of the observed gamma-rays. The conventional synchrotron shock scenario is found to have…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gabriele Ghisellini

Gamma-ray bursts and their afterglows are thought to be produced by an ultra-relativistic jet. One of the most important open questions is the outflow composition: the energy may be carried out from the central source either as kinetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-22 Stefano Covino , Diego Gotz

The origin of ultra-high energy cosmic rays $($UHECRs$)$ remains a mystery. It has been suggested that UHECRs can be produced by the stochastic acceleration in relativistic jets of gamma-ray bursts $($GRBs$)$ at the early afterglow phase.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-17 Ze-Lin Zhang , Ruo-Yu Liu , Xiang-Yu Wang

We reexamine the general synchrotron model for GRBs' prompt emission and determine the regime in the parameter phase space in which it is viable. We characterize a typical GRB pulse in terms of its peak energy, peak flux and duration and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Paz Beniamini , Tsvi Piran

We consider GRBs that occur inside pulsar wind bubbles (PWBs), in the context of the supranova model, where initially a supernova explosion takes place, leaving behind a supra-massive neutron star (SMNS), which eventually loses its…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Dafne Guetta , Jonathan Granot

In many GRBs, afterglows have been observed for months or even years. It deserves noting that at such late stages, the remnants should have entered the deep Newtonian phase, during which the majority of shock-accelerated electrons will no…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Y. F. Huang , K. S. Cheng , Z. G. Dai , T. Lu

In this paper, within the popular internal shock scenario of GRBs, we calculate the early optical afterglow lightcurves of a neutron-fed GRB fireball for different assumed neutron fractions in the fireball and for both ISM- and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Y. Z. Fan , B. Zhang , D. M. Wei

Particle acceleration in relativistic shocks is not a very well understood subject. Owing to that difficulty, radiation spectra from relativistic shocks, such as those in GRB afterglows, have been often modelled by making assumptions about…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Resmi , D. Bhattacharya

We propose an emission mechanism of prompt gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) that can reproduce the observed non-thermal spectra with high radiative efficiencies, >50%. Internal dissipation below a photosphere can create a radiation-dominated thermal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-23 Kunihito Ioka , Kohta Murase , Kenji Toma , Shigehiro Nagataki , Takashi Nakamura

GRB 000926 has one of the best-studied afterglows to-date, with multiple X-ray observations, as well as extensive multi-frequency optical and radio coverage. Broadband afterglow observations, spanning from X-ray to radio frequencies,…

Observations of gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglows have long provided the most detailed information about the origin of this spectacular phenomena. The model that is most commonly used to extract physical properties of the event from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-06 Guðlaugur Jóhannesson , Gunnlaugur Björnsson

We investigate neutrino emission from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) under alternative scenarios for prompt emission (the photospheric and synchrotron self-Compton scenarios) rather than the classical optically thin synchrotron scenario. In the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-14 Kohta Murase

We report observation results of the prompt X-- and $\gamma$--ray emission from GRB 000528. This event was detected with the Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor and one of the two Wide Field Cameras aboard the BeppoSAX satellite. The GRB was promptly…

Understanding the origin and diversity of emission processes responsible for Gamma-ray Bursts (GRBs) remains a pressing challenge. While prompt and contemporaneous panchromatic observations have the potential to test predictions of the…