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Long Gamma-Ray Bursts (LGRBs) are often associated with the collapse of stripped-envelope massive stars. Powerful relativistic jets drill through the stellar envelope before the gamma emission. Previous hydrodynamical studies imposed jets…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-19 Gerardo Urrutia , Agnieszka Janiuk , Hector Olivares

A stellar-mass black hole (BH) or a millisecond magnetar is believed to be born as the central engine of Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). The presence of plateaus in the X-ray extended emission or afterglow of GRBs is widely accepted as an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-31 Tian-Ci Zheng , Da-Ming Wei , Yun Wang , Hao Zhou , Long Li

Despite all the already existing observational data, current models still cannot explain completely the excessive energy output and the time variability of GRB. One of the reasons for this is the lack of a good model of the central engine…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-01-05 Plamen P. Fiziev , Denitsa R. Staicova

We describe a set of simulations of super-critical accretion onto a non-rotating supermassive BH. The accretion flow is radiation pressure dominated and takes the form of a geometrically thick disk with twin low-density funnels around the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-23 Aleksander Sadowski , Ramesh Narayan

In this paper we study the wind accretion onto a rotating black hole in the close binary system harboring a young massive star. It is shown that the angular momentum of the accreted stellar wind material is not sufficient for the formation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Maxim V. Barkov , Dmitry V. Khangulyan

We present new developments of the simple model of the central engine of GRB, proposed recently. The model is based on minimal assumptions: some rotating compact relativistic object at the center and stable perturbations of its rotating…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-01-05 P. P. Fiziev , D. R. Staicova

Black holes generate collimated, relativistic jets which have been observed in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), microquasars, and at the center of some galaxies (active galactic nuclei; AGN). How jet physics scales from stellar black holes in GRBs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-01-04 Rodrigo S. Nemmen , Markos Georganopoulos , Sylvain Guiriec , Eileen T. Meyer , Neil Gehrels , Rita M. Sambruna

Long-duration gamma-ray bursts (LGRBs) are generally considered to originate from the massive collapsars. It is believed that the central engine of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is a neutrino-dominated accretion flow (NDAF) around a rotating…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-09 Cui-Ying Song , Tong Liu , Wei-Min Gu , Jian-Xiang Tian

In this study we explore the magnetic mechanism of hypernovae and relativistic jets of long duration gamma ray bursts within the collapsar scenario. This is an extension of our earlier work [1]. We track the collapse of massive rotating…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Maxim V. Barkov , Serguei S. Komissarov

Relativistic jets launched by supermassive black holes, so-called as active galactic nuclei (AGNs), are known as the most energetic particle accelerators in the universe. However, the baryon loading efficiency onto the jets from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-31 Yoshiyuki Inoue , Yasuyuki T. Tanaka

Accretion powers relativistic jets in GRBs, similarly to other jet sources. Black holes that are at heart of long GRBs, are formed as the end product of stellar evolution. At birth, some of the black holes must be very rapidly spinning, to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-30 Agnieszka Janiuk

Discovered over forty years ago, Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) remain a forefront topic in modern astrophysics. Perhaps the most fundamental question associated with GRBs is the nature of the astrophysical agent (or agents) that ultimately powers…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-01-29 B. D. Metzger

The central engine of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is poorly constrained. There exist two main candidates: a fast-rotating black hole and a rapidly spinning magnetar. Furthermore, the X-ray plateaus are widely accepted by the energy injection…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-18 Liang Li , Xue-Feng Wu , Wei-Hua Lei , Zi-Gao Dai , En-Wei Liang , Felix Ryde

Relativistic jets and disc-winds are typically observed in BH-XRBs and AGNs. However, many physical details of jet launching and the driving of disc winds from the underlying accretion disc are still not fully understood. In this study, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-30 Indu K. Dihingia , Bhargav Vaidya , Christian Fendt

We investigate the physical properties of the central engine powering gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), modelled as a stellar-mass black hole accreting via a neutrino-dominated accretion flow (NDAF). By solving the governing hydrodynamic equations,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-04 Amit Kumar , Sayan Chakrabarti , Santabrata Das

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), both long and short, are explosive events whose inner engine is generally expected to be a black hole or a highly magnetic neutron star (magnetar) accreting high density matter. Recognizing the nature of GRB central…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-14 Simone Dall'Osso , Giulia Stratta , Rosalba Perna , Giovanni de Cesare , Luigi Stella

We investigate the dependence of the GRB jet structure and its evolution on the properties of the accreting torus in the central engine. Our models numerically evolve the accretion disk around a Kerr black hole using 3D general relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-25 Bestin James , Agnieszka Janiuk , Fatemeh Hossein Nouri

Spinning supermassive black holes (BHs) in active galactic nuclei (AGN) magnetically launch relativistic collimated outflows, or jets. Without angular momentum supply, such jets are thought to perish within $3$ orders of magnitude in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-19 Aretaios Lalakos , Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Omer Bromberg , Ore Gottlieb , Jonatan Jacquemin-Ide , Matthew Liska , Haocheng Zhang

The central engine in long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is thought to be a compact object produced by the core collapse of massive stars, but its exact nature (black hole or millisecond magnetar) is still debatable. Although the central engine…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-24 M. Petropoulou , P. Beniamini , G. Vasilopoulos , D. Giannios , R. Barniol Duran

Neutrino-dominated accretion flow (NDAF) around a rotating stellar-mass black hole (BH) is one of the plausible candidates for the central engines of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Because the time-variant and anisotropic emission of neutrinos…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-29 Tong Liu , Chao-Yang Lin , Cui-Ying Song , Ang Li