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The fireball, the promising model of the gamma-ray burst (GRB), is an opaque radiation plasma, whose energy is significantly greater than its rest mass. We numerically simulate the evolution of the fireball heated by the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Katsuaki Asano , Shizuo Iwamoto

Cosmological $\gamma$-ray bursts originate from relativistic winds. Temporal fluctuations in the wind velocity can give rise to internal shocks which dissipate a significant fraction of the wind kinetic energy. Part of the energy dissipated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ravi P. Pilla , Abraham Loeb

The prompt-emission spectra of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are commonly described by the empirical Band function. The typical low-energy spectral index is $\sim -1$, which poses a challenge to standard synchrotron radiation models. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-23 Jia-Ming Chen , Ke-Rui Zhu , Zhao-Yang Peng , Yong-Gang Zheng , Yun-Lu Gong , Shan Chang , Shi-Ting Tian , Li Zhang

The IceCube Collaboration recently reported a stringent upper limit on the high energy neutrino flux from GRBs, which provides a meaningful constraint on the standard internal shock model. Recent broad band electromagnetic observations of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-05-29 Bing Zhang , Pawan Kumar

Gamma-ray Bursts (GRBs) are bursts of $\gamma$-rays generated from relativistic jets launched from catastrophic events such as massive star core collapse or binary compact star coalescence. Previous studies suggested that GRB emission is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-29 Bin-Bin Zhang , Bing Zhang , Alberto J. Castro-Tirado

(Abr) The origin and structure of magnetic fields in Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) fireball plasmas are two of the most important open questions in all GRB models. We show that the structure and strength of the magnetic field may be constrained by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Amir Sagiv , Eli Waxman , Abraham Loeb

The jet composition and radiative efficiency of GRBs are poorly constrained from the data. If the jet composition is matter-dominated (i.e. a fireball), the GRB prompt emission spectra would include a dominant thermal component originating…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-10 Bing Zhang , Yu Wang , Liang Li

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are ultra-relativistic collimated outflows, which emit synchrotron radiation throughout the entire electromagnetic spectrum when they interact with their environment. This afterglow emission enables us to probe the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-09 M. D. Aksulu , R. A. M. J. Wijers , H. J. van Eerten , A. J. van der Horst

Four years after the launch the Swift satellite the nature of the GRBs broadband afterglow behaviour is still an open issue. The standard external shock fireball model cannot easily explain the combined temporal and spectral properties of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-05-06 M. Nardini , G. Ghisellini , G. Ghirlanda , A. Celotti

In many models of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) relativistic shells are responsible for the overall envelope of emission. We use kinematics and symmetry to calculate the time history and spectral evolution expected from a relativistic shell…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. E. Fenimore , M. C. Sumner

The typical spectra of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are discussed in the context of the compactness problem for GRB sources and how it is resolved in the popular fireball model. In particular, observational (model-independent) constraints on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 V. V. Sokolov , G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan , V. G. Kurt , Yu. N. Gnedin , Yu. V. Baryshev

Presently, it is broadly assumed that fast radio bursts (FRBs) are sources of coherent emission powered by the magnetic energy release in magnetars. However, the exact emission mechanism is not known, yet. Two main frameworks exist:…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-27 Popov S. B.

We perform a time-resolved spectral analysis of GRB 130606B within the framework of a fast-cooling synchrotron radiation model with magnetic field strength in the emission region decaying with time, as proposed by Uhm & Zhang. The data from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-19 Bin-Bin Zhang , Z. Lucas Uhm , Valerie Connaughton , Michael S. Briggs , Bing Zhang

Nonthermal radiation observed from astrophysical systems containing relativistic jets and shocks, e.g., gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), active galactic nuclei (AGNs), and microquasars commonly exhibit power-law emission spectra. Recent PIC…

Coherent curvature radiation as the radiation mechanism for fast radio bursts (FRBs) has been discussed since FRBs were discovered. We study the spectral and polarization properties of repeating FRBs within the framework of coherent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-14 Wei-Yang Wang , Yuan-Pei Yang , Chen-Hui Niu , Renxin Xu , Bing Zhang

Conventionally, long GRBs are thought to be caused by the core collapses of massive stars. During the lifetime of a massive star, a stellar wind bubble environment should be produced. Furthermore, the microphysics shock parameters may vary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 S. W. Kong , A. Y. L. Wong , Y. F. Huang , K. S. Cheng

The discovery of GRBs' afterglows has allowed us to establish several facts: their distance and energy scales, the fact that they are due to explosions, that the explosions are relativistic, and that the afterglow emission mechanism is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 Mario Vietri

In gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), the electron pitch angle ($\alpha$) is usually assumed to be isotropically distributed. However, recent numerical simulations indicate that only the high-energy electrons (with Lorentz factors…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-27 Kang-Fa Cheng , Kai-Xian Luo , Xiao-Hong Zhao , Jirong Mao , Hong-Bang Liu , Yu-Hang Mo , Jin-Rong Huang , Rong-Li Weng , Wen-Jie Xie , Gao-Jin Yu

We discuss the prompt emission of Gamma-Ray Bursts in different spectral energy bands. First, we suggest that a three-part synchrotron emission model is a good description of the ~20 keV - 1 MeV gamma-ray emission of GRBs. We show that this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Nicole M. Lloyd-Ronning

Some fast radio bursts (FRBs) are expected to be associated with the afterglow emission of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), while a short-lived, supermassive neutron star (NS) forms during the GRBs. I investigate the possible contributions to the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-14 Yun-Wei Yu