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Gamma-ray bursts are short-lived, luminous explosions at cosmological distances, thought to originate from relativistic jets launched at the deaths of massive stars. They are among the prime candidates to produce the observed cosmic rays at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-15 Mauricio Bustamante , Philipp Baerwald , Kohta Murase , Walter Winter

Particle acceleration in collisionless shocks is believed to be responsible for the production of cosmic-rays over a wide range of energies, from few GeV to >10^{20}eV, as well as for the non-thermal emission of radiation from a wide…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 E. Waxman

Although the physical origin of prompt emission in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) remains inconclusive, previous studies have considered the synchrotron radiation of relativistic electrons as a promising mechanism. These works usually adopted a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-22 Kuan Liu , Da-Bin Lin , Kai Wang , Li Zhou , Xiang-Gao Wang , En-Wei Liang

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are emitted by relativistic ejecta from powerful cosmic explosions. Their light curves suggest that the gamma-ray emission occurs at early stages of the ejecta expansion, well before it decelerates in the ambient…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Andrei M. Beloborodov

The high energy emission from Gamma-ray Bursts has some interesting features, including the absence of the GeV excess in the prompt spectrum, the delayed onset of the GeV emission, and the longer duration of the GeV emission than the prompt…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-16 Yi-Zhong Fan

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…

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most luminous electromagnetic burst in the Universe. They occur when a rapidly rotating massive star collapses or a binary neutron star merges. These events leave a newborn central compact object, either a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-15 Shigeo S. Kimura

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 simulations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 K. -I. Nishikawa , P. Hardee , Y. Mizuno , M. Medvedev , B. Zhang , D. H. Hartmann , G. J. Fishman

The prompt emission of gamma-ray bursts probably comes from a highly relativistic wind which converts part of its kinetic energy into radiation via the formation of shocks within the wind itself. Such "internal shocks" can occur if the wind…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Frederic Daigne , Robert Mochkovitch

The energy dissipation mechanism within Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) outflows, driving their extremely luminous prompt $\gamma$-ray emission is still uncertain. The leading candidates are internal shocks and magnetic reconnection. While the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-13 Paz Beniamini , Jonathan Granot

The origin of prompt emission in GRBs is not yet well understood. The simplest and most popular model is Synchrotron, Self-Compton (SSC) emission produced by internal shocks inside an ultra-relativistic jet. However, recent observations of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Houri Ziaeepour , Brian Gardner

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most luminous explosions in the Universe and are powered by ultra-relativistic jets. Their prompt $\gamma$-ray emission briefly outshines the rest of the $\gamma$-ray sky making them detectable from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-07 Ramandeep Gill , Jonathan Granot

In the framework of the internal shock scenario, we model the broadband prompt emission of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) with emphasis on the GeV-TeV bands, utilizing Monte Carlo simulations that include various processes associated with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Katsuaki Asano , Susumu Inoue

For the first time, a short gamma-ray burst (GRB) was unambiguously associated with a gravitational wave (GW) observation from a binary neutron star (NS) merger. This allows us to link the details of the central engine properties to GRB…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-22 P. Veres , P. Mészáros , A. Goldstein , N. Fraija , V. Connaughton , E. Burns , R. D. Preece , R. Hamburg , C. A. Wilson-Hodge , M. S. Briggs , D. Kocevski

Motivated by the many associations of $\gamma$-ray bursts (GRBs) with energetic supernova (SN) explosions, we study the propagation of relativistic jets within the progenitor star in which a SN shock wave may be launched briefly before the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-06 Miguel-Ángel Aloy , Carlos F. Cuesta-Martínez , M. Obergaulinger

Motivated by the detection of very high energy gamma-rays deep in the afterglow emission of a gamma-ray burst, we revisit predictions of the maximum energy to which electrons can be accelerated at a relativistic blast wave. Acceleration at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-09 Zhi-Qiu Huang , John Kirk , Gwenael Giacinti , Brian Reville

Progenitor stars of long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) could be surrounded by a significant and complex nebula structure lying at a parsec scale distance. After the initial release of energy from the GRB jet, the jet will interact with this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-07 Asaf Pe'er , Felix Ryde

Both observational and theoretical studies indicate that the central engine of a gamma-ray burst (GRB) is intrinsically time-variable, implying jet inhomogeneity. A jet with an inhomogeneous Lorentz factor distribution develops internal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-12 Kanako Nakama , Kazumi Kashiyama , Nobuhiro Shimizu

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are bright extragalactic flashes of gamma-ray radiation and briefly the most energetic explosions in the Universe. Their catastrophic origin (the merger of compact objects or the collapse of massive stars) drives the…

The collapsar model was proposed to explain the long-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), while the short GRBs are associated with the mergers of compact objects. In the first case, mainly the energetics of the events is consistent with the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-10 Agnieszka Janiuk , Kostas Sapountzis