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We introduce a new model of gamma ray burst (GRB) that explains its observed prompt signals, namely, its primary quasi-thermal spectrum and high energy tail. This mechanism can be applied to either assumption of GRB progenitor: coalescence…

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The apparent spectral evolution observed in the steep decay phase of many GRB early afterglows raises a great concern of the high-latitude "curvature effect" interpretation of this phase. However, previous curvature effect models only…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 Bin-Bin Zhang , Bing Zhang , En-Wei Liang , Xiang-Yu Wang

We investigate long Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRB) which manifest a sharp linear rise followed by an exponential decay in their gamma-ray prompt emission observed with the BAT instrument on board the Swift satellite. We offer a simple…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-17 Ioannis Contopoulos , Achilles Strantzalis , Dimitrios Papadopoulos , Demosthenes Kazanas

Context: The origin of GRBs' prompt emission is highly debated. Proposed scenarios involve dissipation processes above or below the photosphere of an ultra-relativistic outflow. Aims: We search for observational features that would favour…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-13 Paz Beniamini , Robert Mochkovitch

The origin of prompt emission in GRBs is not yet well understood. The simplest and most popular model is Synchrotron, Self-Compton (SSC) emission produced by internal shocks inside an ultra-relativistic jet. However, recent observations of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Houri Ziaeepour , Brian Gardner

The prompt emission mechanism of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is still unclear, and the time-resolved spectral analysis of GRBs is a powerful tool for studying their underlying physical processes. We performed a detailed time-resolved spectral…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-29 Wan-Kai Wang , Wei Xie , Zhi-Fu Gao , Shuo Xiao , Ai-Jun Dong , Bin Zhang , Qi-Jun Zhi

We investigate spectral evolution in 37 bright, long gamma-ray bursts observed with the BATSE Spectroscopy Detectors. High resolution spectra are characterized by the energy of the peak of \nfn~and the evolution of this quantity is examined…

The complete Swift Burst Alert Telescope and X-Ray Telescope light curves of 118 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) with known redshifts were fitted using the physical model of GRB pulses by Willingale et al. to produce a total of 607 pulses. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-29 A Amaral-Rogers , R. Willingale , P. T. O'Brien

A temporal analysis has been performed on a sample of 100 bright gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) with T90<2s from the BATSE current catalog. The GRBs were denoised using a median filter and subjected to an automated pulse selection algorithm as an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. McBreen , F. Quilligan , B. McBreen , L. Hanlon , D. Watson

The X-ray light-curves of the GRB afterglows monitored by Swift display one to four phases of power-law decay. In chronological order they are: the burst tail, the "hump", the standard decay, and the post jet-break decay. The large-angle…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Panaitescu

A number of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) exhibit the late simultaneous bumps in their optical and Xray afterglows around the jet break. Its origin is unclear. Based on the following two facts, we suggest that this feature may sound a transition…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-24 Xiao-Yan Li , Da-Bin Lin , Jia Ren , Shu-Jin Hou , Yu-Fei Li , Xiang-Gao Wang , En-Wei Liang

We observe strong correlations between the temporal properties of gamma ray bursts (GRBs) and their apparent peak brightness. The strongest effect (with a significance level of 10^{-6}) is the difference between the brightness distributions…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-13 Boris Stern , Juri Poutanen , Roland Svensson

The follow-up of $\gamma$-ray bursts (GRBs) by the X-ray telescope (XRT, 0.3-10 keV) on board the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory led to the discovery of a shallow decay phase (the so-called plateau) of the X-ray emission in a good fraction…

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We present a geometrical methodology to interpret the periodical light curves of Soft Gamma Repeaters based on the magnetar model and the numerical arithmetic of the three-dimensional magnetosphere model for the young pulsars. The hot…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. J. Jia , Y. F. Huang , K. S. Cheng

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are cosmological explosions which carry valuable information from the distant past of the expanding universe. One of the greatest discoveries in modern cosmology is the finding of the accelerated expansion of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-15 Rupal Basak , A. R. Rao

We study the power density spectrum (PDS) of artificial light curves of observed gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). We investigate statistical properties of GRB light curves by comparing the reported characteristics in the PDSs of the observed GRBs…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Heon-Young Chang , Insu Yi

The statistical shapes of the highest pulse have been studied by aligned method. A wavelet package analysis technique and a developed pulse--finding algorithm have been applied to select the highest pulse from burst profiles observed by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Yi-Ping Qin , En-Wei Liang , Guang-Zhong Xie , Cheng-Yue Su

The pulse morphology of fast radio bursts (FRBs) provides key information in both understanding progenitor physics and the plasma medium through which the burst propagates. We present a study of the profiles of 33 bright FRBs detected by…

The observed delay in the arrival times between high and low energy photons in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) has been shown by Norris et al. to be correlated to the absolute luminosity of a GRB. Despite the apparent importance of this spectral…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Kocevski , E. P. Liang

Soft Gamma Repeaters undergo pulse profile changes in connection with their burst activity. Here we present a comprehensive pulse profile history of SGR 1806-20 and SGR 1900+14 in three energy bands using Rossi X-ray Timing…