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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 spectrum of electromagnetic emission generated by relativistic electrons scattered on small-scale random magnetic fields, implied by current models of the magnetic field generation in the gamma-ray burst sources, is considered. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Gregory D. Fleishman

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) comprise of short, bright, energetic flashes of emission from extragalactic sources followed by a longer afterglow phase of decreased brightness. Recent discoveries of very-high-energy (VHE, $\gtrsim 100$ GeV)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-12 Monica Barnard , Soebur Razzaque , Jagdish C. Joshi

We investigate the dynamics and radiation from a relativistic blast-wave which decelerates as it sweeps up ambient matter. The bulk kinetic energy of the blast-wave shell is converted into internal energy by the process of accreting…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 J. Chiang , C. D. Dermer

Prompt emission from the very fluent and nearby (z=0.34) gamma-ray burst GRB 130427A was detected by several orbiting telescopes and by ground-based, wide-field-of-view optical transient monitors. Apart from the intensity and proximity of…

The radiation physics of bright prompt optical emission of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) remains a puzzle. Assuming that the GRB ejecta is structured, we investigated this issue by characterizing the ejecta as an ultra-relativistic uniform jet…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-12 Zi-Qi Wang , Xiao-Li Huang , En-Wei Liang

The most common progenitors of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are massive stars with strong stellar winds. We show that the GRB blast wave in the wind should emit a bright GeV flash. It is produced by inverse Compton cooling of the thermal plasma…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Andrei M. Beloborodov , Romain Hascoet , Indrek Vurm

The mechanism that causes the prompt-emission episode of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is still widely debated despite there being thousands of prompt detections. The favoured internal shock model relates this emission to synchrotron radiation.…

The prompt $\gamma$-rays of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) may originate from the photosphere of a relativistic jet. However, only a few GRBs have been observed with evident blackbody-like emission, for example, GRB~090902B. It has been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-22 Guo-Yu Li , Da-Bin Lin , Zhi-Lin Chen , En-Wei Liang

The detection of TeV gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) brought new opportunities for studying the physics of particle acceleration at relativistic shocks. The \hess telescopes recently observed very-high-energy (VHE) emission from a nearby…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-09 B. Theodore Zhang , Kohta Murase , Péter Veres , Péter Mészáros

Long Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRB) relativistic jets are surrounded by hot cocoons which confine jets during their punch out from the progenitor star. These cocoons are copious sources of X-ray photons that can be and are inverse-Compton (IC)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Pawan Kumar , George F. Smoot

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

This paper is a brief review of the processes responsible for X-ray emission from radio jets, lobes and hot spots. Possible photons in inverse Compton scattering models include the radio synchrotron radiation itself (i.e. synchrotron…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Andrew S. Wilson

Energetic GeV photons expected from the closest and the most energetic Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) provide an unique opportunity to study the very-high-energy emission as well as the possible correlations with lower energy bands in realistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-19 Nissim Fraija , P. Veres , B. Betancourt Kamenetskaia , A. Galvan-Gamez , M. G. Dainotti , Simone Dichiara , R. L. Becerra

Jets producing gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are likely to carry a neutron component that drifts with respect to the proton component. The neutron-proton collisions strongly heat the jet and generate electron-positron pairs. We investigate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-01-09 Indrek Vurm , Andrei M. Beloborodov , Juri Poutanen

Radiation from GRBs in the prompt phase, flares and an afterglow is thought to be produced by accelerated electrons in magnetic fields. Such emission may be produced at collisionless shocks of baryonic outflows or at reconnection sites (at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-06-25 Mikhail V. Medvedev

Spontaneous rapid growth of strong magnetic fields is rather ubiquitous in high-energy density environments ranging from astrophysical sources (e.g., gamma-ray bursts and relativistic shocks), to reconnection, to laser-plasma interaction…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 Mikhail V. Medvedev , Jacob Trier Frederiksen , Troels Haugboelle , Aake Nordlund

Even though the observed spectra for GRB prompt emission is well constrained, no single radiation mechanism can robustly explain its distinct non-thermal nature. Here we explore the radiation mechanism with the photospheric emission model…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-10 Mukul Bhattacharya , Pawan Kumar

The gamma ray flares of the Crab nebula detected by Fermi and AGILE satellites challenge our understanding of physics of pulsars and their nebulae. The central problem is that the peak energy of the flares exceeds the maximum energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Yuto Teraki , Fumio Takahara

A small fraction of X-ray photons from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), after escaping the relativistic jet, are scattered by electrons in the circumburst medium. Subsequent photon-photon absorption between the incoming MeV $\gamma$-rays and the…