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It has been observationally established that supernovae (SNe) of Type Ic produce long duration gamma ray bursts (GRBs) and that neutron star mergers generate short hard GRBs. SN-Less GRBs presumably originate in a phase transition of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-06 Shlomo Dado , Arnon Dar , A. De Rújula

We discuss a model for long Gamma-Ray-Bursts in which the central engine is associated with the conversion process of a metastable hadronic star into a star containing quark matter. We analyze the observational signatures of the model, i.e.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Alessandro Drago , Andrea Lavagno , Giuseppe Pagliara

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) last for $\sim $ few milli-seconds and, hence, are likely to arise from the gravitational collapse of supra-massive, spinning neutron stars after they lose the centrifugal support (Falcke \& Rezzolla 2014). In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-22 Patrick Das Gupta , Nidhi Saini

The duration of a gamma-ray burst (GRB) is a key indicator of its physics origin, with long bursts perhaps associated with the collapse of massive stars and short bursts with mergers of neutron stars.However, there is substantial overlap in…

Long duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) mark the explosive death of some massive stars and are a rare sub-class of Type Ibc supernovae (SNe Ibc). They are distinguished by the production of an energetic and collimated relativistic outflow…

Low luminosity gamma-ray bursts (ll-GRBs) constitute a sub-class of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) that plays a central role in the GRB-supernova connection. While ll-GRBs differ from typical long GRBs (LGRBs) in many aspects, they also share some…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Omer Bromberg , Ehud Nakar , Tsvi Piran

Traditionally, gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are classified as long and short GRBs, with $T_{90} = 2$ s being the threshold duration. Generally, long-duration GRBs (LGRBs, $T_{90}>2$ s) are associated with the collapse of massive stars, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-03 Si-Yuan Zhu , Pak-Hin Thomas Tam

The modified version of a bullet model for gamma ray bursts is studied. The central engine of the source produces multiple sub-jets that are contained within a cone. The emission of photons in the source frame of a sub-jet either takes part…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Janiuk , B. Czerny , R. Moderski , D. B. Cline , C. Matthey , S. Otwinowski

Long duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are among the least understood astrophysical transients powering the high-energy universe. To date, various mechanisms have been proposed to explain the observed electromagnetic GRB emission. In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-26 Tetyana Pitik , Irene Tamborra , Maria Petropoulou

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

Coherent oscillations at kilohertz frequencies have recently been detected in a small number of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), suggesting quasi-periodic dynamics in their central engines. A prominent example is GRB~230307A, which exhibited a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-21 Run-Chao Chen , Jun Yang , Yi-Han Iris Yin , Bin-Bin Zhang

There are two classes of gamma-ray transients with a duration shorter than 2 seconds. One consists of cosmic short Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) taking place in the deep universe via the neutron star mergers, and the other is the magnetar giant…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-10 Yun Wang , Yu-Jia Wei , Hao Zhou , Jia Ren , Zi-Qing Xia , Zhi-Ping Jin

Ultra-long gamma-ray bursts (ulGRBs) are a new population of GRBs with extreme durations of $\sim 10^{4}$ s. Leading candidates for their origin are blue supergiant collapsars, magnetars, and white dwarf tidal disruption events (WD-TDEs)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-21 Kunihito Ioka , Kenta Hotokezaka , Tsvi Piran

The shallow decay phase and flares in the afterglows of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is widely believed to be associated with the later activation of central engine. Some models of energy injection involve with a continuous energy flow since the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-11 J. J. Geng , X. F. Wu , Y. F. Huang , Y. B. Yu

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have been phenomenologically classified into long and short populations based on the observed bimodal distribution of duration. Multi-wavelength and multi-messenger observations in recent years have revealed that in…

We model the interaction between the wind from a newly formed rapidly rotating magnetar and the surrounding progenitor. In the first few seconds after core collapse the magnetar inflates a bubble of plasma and magnetic fields behind the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 N. Bucciantini , E. Quataert , J. Arons , B. D. Metzger , Todd A. Thompson

The relation between long gamma-ray bursts (LGRBs) and low-luminosity GRBs (llgrbs) is a long standing puzzle -- on the one hand their high energy emission properties are fundamentally different, implying a different gamma-ray source, yet…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-07-15 Ehud Nakar

We consider a model in which the ultra-relativistic jet in a gamma-ray burst (GRB) is cold and magnetically accelerated. We assume that the energy flux in the outflowing material is partially thermalized via internal shocks or a reverse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Ramesh Narayan , Pawan Kumar , Alexander Tchekhovskoy

The magnetar model has been proposed to explain the apparent energy injection in the X-ray light curves of short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs), but its implications across the full broadband spectrum are not well explored. We investigate the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 B. P. Gompertz , A. J. van der Horst , P. T. O'Brien , G. A. Wynn , K. Wiersema

In this paper, we simulate the prompt emission light curves of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) within the framework of the Internal-Collision-induced MAgnetic Reconnection and Turbulence (ICMART) model. This model applies to GRBs with a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Bo Zhang , Bing Zhang