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The prompt gamma-ray emission in gamma-ray bursts is believed to be produced by internal shocks within a relativistic unsteady outflow. The recent detection of prompt optical emission accompanying the prompt gamma-ray emission appears to be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Zhuo Li , Eli Waxman

The gamma-ray burst GRB 180720B is very peculiar. On one hand, some interesting features have been found by performing the detailed time-resolved spectral analysis in the prompt phase. First, the `flux-tracking' pattern is exhibited both…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-12-24 Ming-Ya Duan , Xiang-Gao Wang

The recent launches of the Einstein Probe (EP) and the Space Variable Objects Monitor (SVOM) mission have led to the detection of a growing number of long GRBs with significant, early soft X-ray flux during their gamma-ray emission,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-21 Ziming Wang , Chenyu Wang , He Gao , Hua Feng , An Li , Lin Lin , Songyu Shen

If the emission of gamma-ray bursts were due to the synchrotron process in the standard internal shock scenario, then the typical observed spectrum should have a slope F(nu) \propto nu^{-1/2}, which strongly conflicts with the much harder…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Gabriele Ghisellini , Annalisa Celotti , Davide Lazzati

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

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

Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are extra-galactic and extremely energetic transient emissions of gamma rays, which are thought to be associated with the death of massive stars or the merger of compact objects in binary systems. Their huge…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-20 F. Piron

Gamma-ray bursts (GRB) are short and intense bursts of $\sim$100 keV$-$1MeV photons, usually followed by long-lasting decaying afterglow emission in a wide range of electromagnetic wavelengths from radio to X-ray and, sometimes, even to GeV…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-05 Yun-Wei Yu , He Gao , Fa-Yin Wang , Bin-Bin Zhang

The gravitational waves from the neutron star merger event GW170817 were accompanied by an unusually weak short GRB 170817A, by an optical/IR macronova/kilonova and by a long lasting radio to X-rays counterpart. While association of short…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-05 Tatsuya Matsumoto , Ehud Nakar , Tsvi Piran

Fireball model of the gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) predicts generation of numerous internal shocks, which efficiently accelerate charged particles and generate relatively small-scale stochastic magnetic and electric fields. The accelerated…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Gregory D. Fleishman , Fedor A. Urtiev

Evidence suggests that the gamma-ray burst (GRB) ejecta is likely magnetized, although the degree of magnetization of the ejecta is unknown. We derive a rigorous analytical solution for the relativistic 90 degree shocks under the ideal MHD…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Bing Zhang , Shiho Kobayashi

In the cosmological blast-wave model for gamma ray bursts (GRBs), high energy (> 10 GeV) gamma-rays are produced either through Compton scattering of soft photons by ultrarelativistic electrons, or as a consequence of the acceleration of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Boettcher , C. D. Dermer

Despite decades of investigations, the physical mechanism that powers the bright prompt $\gamma$-ray emission from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is still not identified. One important observational clue that remains not properly interpreted so…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-13 Z. Lucas Uhm , Bing Zhang

Gamma-ray bursts (GRB) are generally believed to be efficient particle accelerators. In the presence of energetic protons in a GRB jet, interactions between these protons and intense radiation field of the GRB are supposed to induce…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-01 Ruo-Yu Liu , Hai-Ming Zhang , Xiang-Yu Wang

We propose a new mechanism for the prompt emission of gamma-ray burst. In our model electrons are continuously accelerated in the post shock region via plasma turbulence. Using the Monte Carlo technique, we mimic the second-order Fermi…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-11-05 K. Asano , T. Terasawa

Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) prompt emission can, for specific conditions, be so powerful and short-pulsed to strongly influence any surrounding plasma. In this paper, we briefly discuss the possibility that a very intense initial burst of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-11 G. Barbiellini , F. Longo , N. Omodei , A. Celotti , M. Tavani

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

A substantial fraction of prompt GRB spectra have soft spectral indexes exceeding the maximum allowed by the synchrotron model alpha_{max}=-2/3. Some spectra also exhibit very sharp break at E_p, inconsistent with the smooth synchrotron…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Mikhail V. Medvedev

The prompt optical emission of GRB 990123 was uncorrelated to the gamma-ray light-curve and exhibited temporal properties similar to those of the steeply-decaying, early X-ray emission observed by Swift at the end of many bursts. These…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Panaitescu , P. Kumar

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