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Long duration gamma-ray bursts (GRB) are at cosmological distance, they appear to be located near star forming regions, and are likely associated with some type of supernovae. They are also likely to be strongly beamed, which lowers their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Bohdan Paczynski

The typical spectrum of the prompt emission of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) indicates that the electron cooling is suppressed in spite of the strong magnetic field in the standard synchrotron model. Recent Particle-in-Cell simulations show that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-07 Ryota Goto , Katsuaki Asano

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are presumed to be powered by still unknown central engines for the timescales in the range $1ms \sim$ a few s. We propose that the GRB central engines would be a viable site for strong meson synchrotron emission if…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Akira Tokuhisa , Toshitaka Kajino

The afterglow emission from Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) is usually interpreted as synchrotron radiation from relativistic electrons accelerated at the GRB external shock, that decelerates from ultra-relativistic to non-relativistic speeds as it…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Lorenzo Sironi , Dimitrios Giannios

The origin of the observed Band-like photon spectrum in short gamma-ray bursts (sGRBs) is a long-standing mystery. We carry out the first general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulation of a sGRB jet with initial magnetization $\sigma_0…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-15 Annika Rudolph , Irene Tamborra , Ore Gottlieb

We have carried out a detailed study of the morphology of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) with time duration less than 100 ms that includes: (1) a fast-Fourier spectrum analysis, (2) a comparison with the Stern analysis of longer bursts, (3) an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 David B. Cline , Christina Matthey , Stanislaw Otwinowski

In explaining the physical origin of the jet composition of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), a more general picture, i.e. the hybrid jet model (which introduced another magnetization parameter $\sigma_{0}$ on the basis of the traditional fireball…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-21 Liang Li

The composition of gamma-ray burst (GRB) jets remained a mystery until recently. In practice, we usually characterize the magnetization of the GRB jets ($\sigma_0$) through the ratio between the Poynting flux and matter (baryonic) flux.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-05 An Li , He Gao , Lin Lan , Bing Zhang

We use a new method of analysis to determine parameters of cosmological gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), assuming that their distribution follows the star-formation history of the universe. Spectral evolution is calculated from an external shock…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 M. Boettcher , C. D. Dermer

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are violent explosions, coming from cosmological distances. They are detected in gamma-rays (also X-rays, UV, optical, radio) almost every day, and have typical durations of a few seconds to a few minutes. Some GRBs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-10 Antonios Nathanail , Ioannis Contopoulos

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are promising as sources of neutrinos and cosmic rays. In the internal shock scenario, blobs of plasma emitted from a central engine collide within a relativistic jet and form shocks, leading to particle acceleration…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-06 Mauricio Bustamante , Jonas Heinze , Kohta Murase , Walter Winter

Observations imply that gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are produced by the dissipation of the kinetic energy of a highly relativistic fireball. Photo-meson interactions of protons with gamma-rays within the fireball dissipation region are expected…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dafne Guetta

We propose that gamma ray bursts (GRBs) are produced by a shower of heavy blobs running into circumstellar material at highly relativistic speeds. The gamma ray emission is produced in the shocks these bullets drive into the surrounding…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Heinz , M. C. Begelman

GRB 080503 is a short gamma-ray burst (GRB) detected by \emph{Swift} and has been classified as a compact-star-merger-origin GRB. The soft extended emission and the simultaneous late re-brightening in both the X-ray and optical afterglow…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-07-15 He Gao , Xuan Ding , Xue-Feng Wu , Zi-Gao Dai , Bing Zhang

Short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are explosive transients caused by binary mergers of compact objects containing at least one neutron star. Multi-wavelength afterglow observations provide constraints on the physical parameters of the jet, its…

Gamma-ray bursts are produced as a result of cataclysmic events such as the collapse of a massive star or the merger of two neutron stars. We monitored the position of the close-by gamma-ray burst GRB~190829A, which originated from a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-08 O. S. Salafia , M. E. Ravasio , J. Yang , T. An , M. Orienti , G. Ghirlanda , L. Nava , M. Giroletti , P. Mohan , R. Spinelli , Y. Zhang , B. Marcote , G. Cimò , X. Wu , Z. Li

Gamma ray bursts (GRB's) often feature subpulses that have a distinctively asymmetric profile -- they rise quickly and decay much more slowly, while their spectrum softens slightly with observer time. It is suggested that these subpulses…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 David Eichler , Hadar Manis

It is proposed that the prompt emission observed in bursts that exhibit a thermal component originates from relativistic radiation mediated shocks that form below the photosphere of the GRB outflow. It is argue that such shocks are expected…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Omer Bromberg , Ziv Mikolitzky , Amir Levinson

Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs), short and intense pulses of low energy gamma-rays, have fascinated astronomers and astrophysicists since their unexpected discovery in the late sixties. During the last decade, several space missions: BATSE (Burst…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Tsvi Piran

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are powered by relativistic jets that exhibit intermittency over a broad range of timescales - from $ \sim $ ms to seconds. Previous numerical studies have shown that hydrodynamic (i.e., unmagnetized) jets that are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-28 Ore Gottlieb , Omer Bromberg , Amir Levinson , Ehud Nakar