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The afterglow of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) has been extensively discussed in the context of shocks generated during an interaction of relativistic outflows with their ambient medium. This process leads to the formation of both a forward and a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-22 Sen-Lin Pang , Zi-Gao Dai

Gamma-ray bursts with long durations are widely thought to arise from the collapse of massive stars, where the wind environment is unavoidable. It is also believed that $\gamma$-ray bursts come from jets. Considering these two points in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 L. J. Gou , Z. G. Dai , Y. F. Huang , T. Lu

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and their afterglows have been proposed as an excellent probe to study the evolution of cosmic star formation, the reionization of the intergalactic medium, and the metal enrichment history of the universe, since the…

The energy requirements of gamma ray bursts have in past been poorly constrained because of three major uncertainties: The distances to bursts, the degree of burst beaming, and the efficiency of gamma ray production. The first of these has…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 James E. Rhoads

Using the 2.4m MDM and 8.4m Large Binocular Telescope, we observed nine GRB afterglows to systematically probe the late time behaviors of afterglows including jet breaks, flares, and supernova bumps. In particular, the LBT observations have…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-11-13 X. Dai , K. Z. Stanek , P. M. Garnavich

We systematically investigate the outflow structure of GW170817 in comparison with a sample of 27 cosmological short GRBs by modelling their afterglow light curves. We find that cosmological short GRBs share the same outflow structures with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-07 Yiyang Wu , Andrew MacFadyen

Observations of very early multi-wavelength afterglows are critical to reveal the properties of the radiating fireball and its environment as well as the central engine of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). We report our optical observations of GRB…

Long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are commonly accepted to originate in the explosion of particularly massive stars, which gives rise to a highly relativistic jet. Internal inhomogeneities in the expanding flow give rise to internal shock waves…

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 use high-resolution relativistic MHD simulations coupled with a radiative transfer code to compute multiwavelength afterglow light curves of magnetized ejecta of gamma-ray bursts interacting with a uniform circumburst medium. The aim of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 P. Mimica , D. Giannios , M. A. Aloy

According to the fireball model gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglows are the result of a shock pushed into the surrounding medium by an extremely relativistic outflow from the GRB. By modeling the broadband spectrum, ranging from X-ray to radio…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 A. J. van der Horst , R. A. M. J. Wijers , E. Rol

Early multiwavelength observations offer crucial insights into the nature of the relativistic jets responsible for gamma-ray bursts and their interaction with the surrounding medium.We present data of GRB 240825A from 17 space- and…

Even though the prompt emission of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is highly beamed, high-latitude emission still produces a distinct light curve break after the intrinsic emission ceases and the edge of the jet comes into view. This curvature…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-19 Zhen-Yu Yan , Xiao-Hong Zhao , Hendrik J. van Eerten , Jun Yang , Jiang-Chuan Tuo , Shu-Xu Yi , Chen-Wei Wang , Wen-Jun Tan , Shao-Lin Xiong , Bin-Bin Zhang

We performed accurate numerical calculations of angle-, time-, and frequency-dependent radiative transfer for the relativistic motion of matter in gamma-ray burst (GRB) models. Our technique for solving the transfer equation, which is based…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. G. Tolstov , S. I. Blinnikov

Context. The concomitant observation of gravitational wave and electromagnetic signals from a binary neutron star (BNS) merger in 2017 confirmed that these events can produce relativistic jets responsible for short Gamma-Ray Bursts (sGRBs).…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-19 Emma Dreas , Andrea Pavan , Riccardo Ciolfi , Annalisa Celotti

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 observations of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) such as 980425, 031203 and 060218, with luminosities much lower than those of other classic bursts, lead to the definition of a new class of GRBs -- low-luminosity GRBs. The nature of the outflow…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-02-11 Hao-Ning He , Xiang-Yu Wang , Yun-Wei Yu , Peter Meszaros

The Fermi-LAT collaboration presented the second gamma-ray burst (GRB) catalog covering its first 10 years of operations. A significant fraction of afterglow-phase light curves in this catalog cannot be explained by the closure relations of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-06 N. Fraija , T. Laskar , S. Dichiara , P. Beniamini , R. Barniol Duran , M. G. Dainotti , R. L. Becerra

Gamma-ray bursts are most luminous explosions in the universe. Their ejecta are believed to move towards Earth with a relativistic speed. The interaction between this "relativistic jet" and a circum burst medium drives a pair of (forward…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 He Gao , Wei-Hua Lei , Yuan-Chuan Zou , Xue-Feng Wu , Bing Zhang

In Paper I we presented a detailed formulation of the relativistic shocks and synchrotron emission in the context of Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) physics. To see how well this model reproduces the observed characteristics of the GRBs and their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Houri Ziaeepour