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Gamma-ray Bursts (GRBs) are bright flashes of high energy photons that can last from about 10 milliseconds to 10 minutes. Their origin and nature have puzzled the scientific community for about 25 years until 1997, when the first X-ray…

A plateau phase in the X-ray afterglow is observed in a significant fraction of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Previously, it has been found that there exists a correlation among three key parameters concerning the plateau phase, i.e., the end…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-11-06 Chen-Han Tang , Yong-Feng Huang , Jin-Jun Geng , Zhi-Bin Zhang

We investigate the effects of the convection in the hyperaccretion disk around a stellar-mass black hole, which is considered to be the central engine of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), with simple analytical calculations. If the convective energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Norita Kawanaka , Kazunori Kohri

Thanks to the rapid follow-up observations by \textit{Swift}/XRT, a good part of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) high latitude emission have been observed in X-ray band. Some of them even show a dropdown decay after this period, which strongly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-09 Qian Xu , Dong-Jie Liu , Yuan-Chuan Zou

We present a three-stage model for a long GRB inner engine to explain the prompt gamma ray emission, and interpret recent Swift satellite observations of early X-ray afterglow plateaus followed by a sharp drop off or a shallow power law…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jan Staff , Brian Niebergal , Rachid Ouyed

The gamma ray burst apparent average isotropic power versus their red-shift of all known GRB (Sept.2009) is reported. It calls for an unrealistic Gamma Ray Burst Evolution around us or it just probe the need of a very thin gamma…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 D. Fargion , D. D'Armiento

The physical nature of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are believed to involve an ultra-relativistic jet. The observed complex structure of light curves motivate the idea of jet precession. In this work, we study the gravitational waves of jet…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Mou-Yuan Sun , Tong Liu , Wei-Min Gu , Ju-Fu Lu

Accreting black holes are observed to launch relativistic, collimated jets of matter and radiation. In some sources, discrete ejections have been detected with highly relativistic velocities. These particular sources typically have very…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Ashley L. King , Jon M. Miller , Michael Bietenholz , Kayhan Gultekin , Mark Reynolds , Amy Mioduszewski , Michael Rupen , Norbert Bartel

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

In this study, the light curves and spectrum of the photospheric thermal radiation from ultrarelativistic gamma-ray burst (GRB) jets are calculated using 2D relativistic hydrodynamic simulations of jets from a collapsar. As the jet…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-04-13 Akira Mizuta , Shigehiro Nagataki , Junichi Aoi

We study the structure and evolution of the hyperaccreting disks and outflows in the gamma ray bursts central engines. The torus around a stellar mass black hole is composed of free nucleons, Helium, electron-positron pairs, and is cooled…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-27 Agnieszka Janiuk , Michal Bejger , Petra Sukova , Szymon Charzynski

The rotation rate in pre-supernova cores is an important ingredient which can profoundly affect the post-collapse evolution and associated energy release in supernovae and long gamma ray bursts (LGRBs). Previous work has focused on whether…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 D. Lopez-Camara , W. H. Lee , E. Ramirez-Ruiz

We present our numerical results of two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of the collapse of rotating massive stars in light of the collapsar model of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Pushed by recent evolution calculations of GRB…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-10-02 Seiji Harikae , Tomoya Takiwaki , Kei Kotake

We call "prompt" emission of Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) the erratic and violent phase of hard X-ray and soft gamma-ray emission, usually lasting for tens of seconds in long GRBs. However, the central engine of GRBs may live much longer.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-07 G. Ghisellini , M. Nardini , G. Ghirlanda

The evolution of an accretion disk, formed as a consequence of the disruption of a star by a black hole, is followed by solving numerically the hydrodynamic equations. The present investigation aims to study the dependence of resulting…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Matias Montesinos , José A. de Freitas Pacheco

Based on a refined generic dynamical model, we investigate afterglows from jetted gamma-ray burst (GRB) remnants numerically. In the relativistic phase, the light curve break could marginally be seen. However, an obvious break does exist at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 Y. F. Huang , T. Lu , Z. G. Dai , K. S. Cheng

We propose that the flat decay phase in the first 100-10,000 seconds of the X-ray light curve of Gamma Ray Bursts can be interpreted as prolonged activity of the central engine, producing shells of decreasing bulk Lorentz factors Gamma. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 G. Ghisellini

The collapsar model is the most promising scenario to explain the huge release of energy associated with long duration gamma-ray-bursts (GRBs). Within this scenario GRBs are believed to be powered by accretion through a rotationally support…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Agnieszka Janiuk , Daniel Proga

We report the detection during the JEM-X/INTEGRAL observations of several X-ray bursters of series of close type I X-ray bursts consisting of two or three events with a recurrence time much shorter than the characteristic (at the observed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-24 S. A. Grebenev , I. V. Chelovekov

Most of proposed models of cosmological gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are associated to gravitational collapses of massive stars, and hence evolution of the GRB rate, which is crucially important in GRB intensity distribution analysis, is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tomonori TOTANI