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The synchrotron self-Compton (SSC) emission from Gamma-ray Burst (GRB) forward shock can extend to the very-high-energy (VHE; $E_\gamma > $100 GeV) range. Such high energy photons are rare and are attenuated by the cosmic infrared…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 R. R. Xue , P. H. Tam , S. J. Wagner , B. Behera , Y. Z. Fan , D. M. Wei

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) comprise of short, bright, energetic flashes of emission from extragalactic sources followed by a longer afterglow phase of decreased brightness. Recent discoveries of very-high-energy (VHE, $\gtrsim 100$ GeV)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-12 Monica Barnard , Soebur Razzaque , Jagdish C. Joshi

A growing number of gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglows is observed at very-high energies (VHE, $\gtrsim 100$ GeV). Yet, our understanding of the mechanism powering the VHE emission remains baffling. We make use of multi-wavelength…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-25 Ersilia Guarini , Irene Tamborra , Damien Bégué , Annika Rudolph

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are intense bursts of high-energy photons (prompt emissions) caused by relativistic jets. After the emissions, multi-wavelength afterglows, from radio to very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray, last for more than a few…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-10 Yuri Sato , Kaori Obayashi , B. Theodre Zhang , Shuta J. Tanaka , Kohta Murase , Yutaka Ohira , Ryo Yamazaki

The recent detection of very high energy (VHE, $\gtrsim$ 100 GeV) $\gamma$-ray emission from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) has provided new insights into afterglow physics. Understanding the temporal and spectral evolution of VHE GRBs requires…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-29 Monica Barnard , Ankur Ghosh , Jagdish C. Joshi , Soebur Razzaque

The afterglow emission from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is believed to originate from a relativistic blast wave driven into the circumburst medium. Although the afterglow emission from radio up to X-ray frequencies is thought to originate from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-18 Hao Zhang , Ian Christie , Maria Petropoulou , Jesus M. Rueda-Becerril , Dimitrios Giannios

Recently, the MAGIC Collaboration reported a $\sim 5\sigma$ statistical significance of the very-high-energy (VHE) emission from a distant GRB, GRB 201216C. Such distant GRB may be effectively absorbed by the extragalactic background light…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-15 Yan Huang

We study high-energy gamma-ray afterglow emission from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) in the prior emission model, which is proposed to explain the plateau phase of the X-ray afterglow. This model predicts the high-energy gamma-ray emission when…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-04-23 Kohta Murase , Kenji Toma , Ryo Yamazaki , Shigehiro Nagataki , Kunihito Ioka

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are among the most luminous and rapidly evolving transients in the Universe. While space-based instruments have extended GRB observations up to energies of $\sim$100 GeV, the detection of very-high-energy (VHE;…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-10 S. Macera , B. Banerjee , M. Seglar-Arroyo , J. Green , G. Oganesyan , P. Tiwari , A. Ierardi , M. Branchesi , F. Aharonian , S. Mohnani , D. Miceli , F. Schüssler , A. Berti

A significant fraction of the energy from the $\gamma$-ray burst (GRB) jets, after powering the keV-MeV emission, forms an ultra-relativistic shock propagating into the circumburst medium. The particles in the medium accelerate through the…

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are among the most luminous sources in the universe. The nature of their emission at TeV energies is one of the most relevant open issues related to these events. The temporal and spectral features inferred from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-10 Y. Pérez Araujo , M. M. González , N. Fraija

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are short and intense emission of soft gamma-rays, which have fascinated astronomers and astrophysicists since their unexpected discovery in 1960s. The X-ray/optical/radio afterglow observations confirm the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-05-07 Yi-Zhong Fan , Tsvi Piran

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), which are bright flashes of gamma rays from extragalactic sources followed by fading afterglow emission, are associated with stellar core collapse events. We report the detection of very-high-energy (VHE) gamma rays…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-07 H. E. S. S. Collaboration

Afterglow radiation in gamma-ray bursts (GRB), extending from the radio band to GeV energies, is produced as a result of the interaction between the relativistic jet and the ambient medium. Although in general the origin of the emission is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-25 Davide Miceli , Lara Nava

We calculate the high energy afterglow emission from short Gamma-Ray Bursts (SGRBs) in the external shock model. There are two possible components contributing to the high energy afterglow: the electron synchrotron emission and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-03-15 Hao-Ning He , Xiang-Yu Wang

We calculate the very high energy (sub-GeV to TeV) inverse Compton emission of GRB afterglows. We argue that this emission provides a powerful test of the currently accepted afterglow model. We focus on two processes: synchrotron…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-03-04 Yi-Zhong Fan , Tsvi Piran , Ramesh Narayan , Da-Ming Wei

It has recently been proposed that ultrahigh energy ($\gtrsim 10^{19}$ eV) cosmic rays (UHECRs) are accelerated by the blast waves associated with GRBs. We calculate the observed synchrotron radiation spectrum from protons and energetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 M. Boettcher , C. D. Dermer

The study of high-energy gamma-ray emission from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) involves complex synchrotron radiation and synchrotron self-Compton scattering (SSC) mechanisms with multiple parameters exhibiting a wide distribution. Recent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-25 Yu-Hua Yao , Fang-Sheng Min , Shi Chen , Yi-Qing Guo

Recent detections of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) at TeV energies opened new prospects for investigating radiative environments and particle acceleration mechanisms under extreme conditions. In this paper, we study the afterglows of these GRBs -…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-27 L. Foffano , M. Tavani
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