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A hyperaccretion disk around a stellar-mass black hole is a plausible model for the central engine that powers gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). We estimate the luminosity of a jet driven by magnetohydrodynamic processes such as the Blandford-Znajek…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-08-16 Norita Kawanaka

A hyperaccreting stellar-mass black hole has been proposed as the candidate central engine of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). The rich observations of GRBs by \textit{Fermi} and \textit{Swift} make it possible to constrain the central engine model…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-08 Wei-Hua Lei , Bing Zhang , Xue-Feng Wu , En-Wei Liang

A hyperaccretion disk formed around a stellar mass black hole is a plausible model for the central engine that powers gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). If the central black hole rotates and a poloidal magnetic field threads its horizon, a powerful…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Norita Kawanaka , Tsvi Piran , Julian H. Krolik

Long-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are generally related to the core-collapse of massive stars. In the collapsar scenario, a rotating stellar-mass black hole (BH) surrounded by a hyperaccretion disk has been considered as one of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-10 Mei Du , Shuang-Xi Yi , Tong Liu , Cui-Ying Song , Wei Xie

It was suggested that the relativistic jets in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are powered via the Blandford-Znajek (BZ) mechanism or the annihilation of neutrinos and anti-neutrinos from a neutrino cooling-dominated accretion flow (NDAF). The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Xinwu Cao , En-Wei Liang , Ye-Fei Yuan

The ultrarelativistic jets triggered by neutrino annihilation processes or Blandford-Znajek (BZ) mechanisms in stellar-mass black hole (BH) hyperaccretion systems are generally considered to power gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Due to the high…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-20 Hui-Min Qu , Tong Liu

The nature of the gamma-ray burst (GRB) central engine still remains an enigma. Entities widely believed to be capable of powering the extreme jets are magnetars and black holes. The maximum rotational energy that is available in a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-11 Vidushi Sharma , Shabnam Iyyani , Dipankar Bhattacharya

Two types of relativistic jets are suggested to form near accreting black holes: a potentially ultrarelativistic Poynting-dominated jet and a Poynting-baryon jet. One source of jet matter is electron-positron pair production, which is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jonathan C. McKinney

Gamma Ray Bursts (GRB) are the extremely energetic transient events, visible from the most distant parts of the Universe. They are most likely powered by accretion on the hyper-Eddington rates that proceeds onto a newly born stellar mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Agnieszka Janiuk , Monika Moscibrodzka

A hyperaccreting stellar-mass black hole (BH) has been proposed as the candidate central engine of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Comparing the predictions from the central engine models with the temporal behavior of GRBs is of great interest. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-17 Wei-Hua Lei

The mechanism behind the launching of gamma-ray-burst (GRB) jets remains debated resulting in large uncertainty over the jet composition. Both magnetohydrodynamical and neutrino annihilation models have been proposed for the energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Mingbin Leng , Dimitrios Giannios

A stellar-mass black hole (BH) surrounded by a neutrino-dominated accretion flow (NDAF) is generally considered to be the central engine of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Neutrinos escaping from the disk will annihilate out of the disk to produce…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-10 Xiao-Yan Li , Tong Liu , Bao-Quan Huang , Guo-Yu Li , Da-Bin Lin , Zhi-Lin Chen , Yun Wang

Most Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have erratic light curves, which demand that the GRB central engine launches an episodic outflow. Recent Fermi observations of some GRBs indicate a lack of the thermal photosphere component as predicted by the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Feng Yuan , Bing Zhang

Black-hole driven relativistic astrophysical jets, such as blazars and gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), are powerful sources of electromagnetic radiation. Their emission is powered by some energy dissipation and particle acceleration mechanism…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-16 Dimitrios Giannios , Dmitri A. Uzdensky

The ultrarelativistic jets responsible for prompt and afterglow emission in gamma ray bursts are presumably driven by a central engine that consists of a dense accretion disk around a spinning black hole. We consider such engine, composed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-04-02 Agnieszka Janiuk , Bartlomiej Kaminski

We explore the formation, energetics, and geometry of relativistic jets along with the variability of their central engine. We study both fast and slowly rotating black holes and address our simulations to active galaxy (AGN) centers and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-07 A. Janiuk , B. James

X-ray flares in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are believed to be generated by the late activities of central engine, and thus provide an useful tool to diagnose the properties of central objects. In this paper, we work on a GRB X-ray flare sample…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-11 Shuang-Xi Yi , Wei Xie , Shuai-Bing Ma , Wei-Hua Lei , Mei Du

A neutrino-dominated accretion disk around a stellar-mass black hole (BH) can power a gamma-ray burst (GRB) via annihilation of neutrinos launched from the disk. For the BH hyperaccretion system, high accretion rate should trigger the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-29 Cui-Ying Song , Tong Liu , Wei-Min Gu , Shu-Jin Hou , Jian-Xiang Tian , Ju-Fu Lu

A model of jet precession driven by a neutrino-cooled disc around a spinning black hole is present in order to explain the temporal structure and spectral evolution of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). The differential rotation of the outer part of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 Tong Liu , En-Wei Liang , Wei-Min Gu , Xiao-Hong Zhao , Zi-Gao Dai , Ju-Fu Lu

We study the transport of baryons in magnetically arrested accretion flows and relativistic jets using general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations that incorporate a passive Eulerian tracer. The tracer allows us to reconstruct a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-12 Anthony Chow , Lorenzo Sironi , Bart Ripperda , Amir Levinson
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