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Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are one of the most exciting sources that offer valuable opportunities for investigating the evolution of energy fraction given to magnetic fields and particles through microphysical parameters during relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-07 Nissim Fraija , Maria G. Dainotti , Boris Betancourt Kamenetskaia , Antonio Galván-Gámez , Edilberto Aguilar-Ruiz

Gonz\'alez et al. (2003) have reported the discovery of an anomalous radiation component from ~ 1 -- 200 MeV in GRB 941017. This component varies independently of and contains >~ 3 times the energy found in the prompt ~ 50 keV -- 1 MeV…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. D. Dermer , A. Atoyan

We considered a model for the prompt phase of Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) emission arising from a magnetized jet undergoing gradual energy dissipation due to magnetic reconnection. The dissipated magnetic energy is translated to bulk kinetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-03 Paz Beniamini , Dimitrios Giannios

The Fermi satellite has been reporting the detailed temporal properties of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) in an extremely broad spectral range, 8 keV - 300 GeV, in particular, the unexpected delays of the GeV emission onsets behind the MeV…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-12-18 Kenji Toma , Xue-Feng Wu , Peter Meszaros

A small fraction of GRBs with available data down to soft X-rays ($\sim0.5$ keV) have been shown to feature a spectral break in the low-energy part ($\sim1-10$ keV) of their prompt emission spectrum. The overall spectral shape is consistent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-12 Ioulia Florou , Maria Petropoulou , Apostolos Mastichiadis

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

The afterglow emission from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is usually interpreted as synchrotron radiation from electrons accelerated at the GRB external shock, that propagates with relativistic velocities into the magnetized interstellar medium.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Lorenzo Sironi , Anatoly Spitkovsky , Jonathan Arons

Several high-frequency peaked BL Lac objects such as Mrk 501 are strong TeV emitters. However, a significant fraction of the TeV gamma rays emitted are likely to be absorbed in interactions with the diffuse IR background, yielding…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Z. G. Dai , B. Zhang , L. J. Gou , P. Meszaros , E. Waxman

In many theoretical models of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and their afterglows, the emission of photons above 100 GeV is predicted. The Large Area Telescope (LAT) on-board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has detected delayed, high-energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Taylor Aune

Synchrotron radiation from a decelerating blastwave is a widely accepted model of radio to X-ray afterglow emission from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). GeV gamma-ray emission detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) and the duration of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-24 Jagdish C. Joshi , Soebur Razzaque

Particle acceleration in relativistic collisionless shocks remains an open problem in high-energy astrophysics. Particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations predict that electron acceleration in weakly magnetized shocks proceeds via small-angle…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-25 Zhao-Feng Wu , Sofía Guevara-Montoya , Paz Beniamini , Dimitrios Giannios , Daniel Grošelj , Lorenzo Sironi

We develop a numerical formalism for calculating the distribution with energy of the (internal) pairs formed in a relativistic source from unscattered MeV--TeV photons. For GRB afterglows, this formalism is more suitable if the relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 A. Panaitescu

It has been suggested that electromagnetic cascade of very high energy gamma-rays from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) in the infrared/microwave background can produce delayed MeV-GeV photons. This delay could be caused by the angular spreading…

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

The typical spectrum of the prompt emission of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) indicates that the electron cooling is suppressed in spite of the strong magnetic field in the standard synchrotron model. Recent Particle-in-Cell simulations show that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-07 Ryota Goto , Katsuaki Asano

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

We present a time-resolved, joint Swift-Fermi spectral study of GRB 241030A (z=1.411) that cleanly isolates the synchrotron origin of its prompt emission and favors a matter-dominated, internal-shock scenario. The light curve shows two…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-30 Varun , Bin-Bin Zhang , Xiao-Hong Zhao , Jun Yang , Run-Chao Chen , Vikas Chand

We compare the luminosity function and rate inferred from the GBM long bursts peak flux distribution with those inferred from the Swift and BATSE peak flux distribution. We find that the GBM, BATSE and the Swift peak fluxes can be fitted by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-11-05 Dafne Guetta , Elena Pian

The origin of GeV emission from the early epoch of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is a widely discussed issue. The long gamma-ray burst GRB 170405A, observed by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope showed high-energy emission delayed by $\sim$20 s…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-18 Makoto Arimoto , Katsuaki Asano , Yutaro Tachibana , Magnus Axelsson

(abridged)Prompt GRB emission is often interpreted as synchrotron radiation from high-energy electrons accelerated in internal shocks. Fast synchrotron cooling predicts that the photon index below the spectral peak is alpha=-3/2. This…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 F. Daigne , Z. Bosnjak , Guillaume Dubus

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most energetic explosions in the universe, and their afterglow emission provides an opportunity to probe the physics of relativistic shock waves in an extreme environment. Several key pieces for completing…