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We present a complete solution to the cyclotron-synchrotron radiation due to an isotropic distribution of electrons moving in a magnetic field. We make no approximations in the calculations other than artificially broadening the harmonics…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Rohan Mahadevan , Ramesh Narayan , Insu Yi

We calculate the synchrotron and inverse-Compton emissions from pairs formed in GRB afterglows from high-energy photons (above 100 MeV), assuming a power-law photon spectrum C_nu ~ nu^{-2} and considering only the pairs generated from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 A. Panaitescu

Both induced Compton scattering and induced Raman scattering strongly limit the observability of the extremely bright (<< 10^21K), prompt coherent radio emission recently predicted to emanate from gamma-ray bursts. Induced Compton…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-19 J. -P. Macquart

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are among the most luminous sources in the universe. The nature of their emission at TeV energies is one of the most relevant open issues related to these events. The temporal and spectral features inferred from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-10 Y. Pérez Araujo , M. M. González , N. Fraija

Synchrotron emission from astrophysical nonthermal sources usually assumes that the emitting particles are isotropic. By means of large-scale two- and three-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations, we demonstrate that the dissipation of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-04 Luca Comisso , Emanuele Sobacchi , Lorenzo Sironi

In this paper we study synchrotron and synchrotron self Compton (SSC) emission from internal shocks (IS) during the prompt and X-ray flare phases of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs). The aim is to test the IS model for the flare emission and for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Galli , D. Guetta

The gamma-ray burst GRB 180720B is very peculiar. On one hand, some interesting features have been found by performing the detailed time-resolved spectral analysis in the prompt phase. First, the `flux-tracking' pattern is exhibited both…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-12-24 Ming-Ya Duan , Xiang-Gao Wang

The physical origin of prompt emission in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) remains an open question since it has been studied more than half a century. Three alternative models (i.e. dissipative photosphere, internal shock, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-27 Yang-Dong-Jun Ou , Hou-Jun Lü , Jia-Ming Chen , Ben-Yang Zhu , En-Wei Liang

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) show different behaviours and trends in their spectral evolution. One of the methods used to understand the physical origin of these behaviours is to study correlation between the spectral fit parameters. In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-09 Hüsne Dereli Bégué , Hoi-Fung Yu , Felix Ryde

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 gamma-ray burst (GRB) of October 17, 1994 (941017), showed a distinct high energy spectral component extending from $\lesssim$ a few MeV to $\gtrsim$ 200 MeV, in addition to the typical GRB emission which peaked at $\lesssim$ a few…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jonathan Granot , Dafne Guetta

The extreme energetics of the gamma-ray burst (GRB) 990123 has revealed that some of GRBs emit quite a large amount of energy, and total energy release from GRBs seems to change from burst to burst by a factor of 10^{2-3} as E_{gamma, iso}…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Tomonori Totani

The Lorentz factor (LF) of gamma-ray burst (GRB) ejecta may be constrained by observations of high-energy (HE) spectral attenuation. The recent Fermi-LAT observations of prompt GeV emission from several bright GRBs have leaded to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Xiaohong Zhao , Zhuo Li , Jinming Bai

We present time-resolved spectral analysis of the steep decay segments of 29 bright X-ray flares of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) observed with the Swift/X-ray telescope, and model their lightcurves and spectral index evolution behaviors with the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-23 Hui-Jun Mu , Da-Bin Lin , Shao-Qiang Xi , Ting-Ting Lin , Yuan-Zhu Wang , Yun-Feng Liang , Lian-Zhong Lv , Jin Zhang , En-Wei Liang

The prompt emission of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is widely thought to be radiation from accelerated electrons, but an appreciably larger amount of energy could be carried by accelerated protons, particularly if GRBs are the sources of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Katsuaki Asano , Susumu Inoue , Peter Mészáros

Fermi satellite discovered that cosmological gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are accompanied by long GeV flashes. In two GRBs, an optical counterpart of the GeV flash has been detected. Recent work suggests that the GeV+optical flash is emitted by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-11-04 Romain Hascoët , Indrek Vurm , Andrei M. Beloborodov

We study the connection between low-luminosity gamma-ray bursts (llGRBs) and ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) using the canonical low-luminosity GRB 060218 as a proxy. We focus on the consequential synchrotron emission from electrons…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-04 Filip Samuelsson , Damien Bégué , Felix Ryde , Asaf Pe'er , Kohta Murase

We study magnetically powered relativistic outflows in which a part of the magnetic energy is dissipated internally by reconnection. For GRB parameters, and assuming that the reconnection speed scales with the Alfven speed, significant…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Georg Drenkhahn

The long standing problem of identifying the emission mechanism operating in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) has produced a myriad of possible models that have the potential of explaining the observations. Generally, the empirical Band function is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-10-29 J. Michael Burgess , Felix Ryde , Hoi-Fung Yu

We consider the emission within the fireball model framework of very high energy, ~1 GeV to >1 TeV photons, on a minute time scale, during the onset of fireball deceleration due to interaction with surrounding medium. Our time dependent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Asaf Pe'er , Eli Waxman