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It has been suggested that the prompt emission in gamma-ray bursts consists of several components giving rise to the observed spectral shape. Here we examine a sample of the 8 brightest, single pulsed {\it Fermi} bursts whose spectra are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-27 S. Iyyani , F. Ryde , J. M. Burgess , A. Pe'er , D. B\' egué

We have revisited the issue of shock dissipation and emission and its implications for the internal shock model of the prompt GRB emission and studied it in the context of impulsive Poynting-dominated flows. Our results show that unless the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 S. S. Komissarov

Gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglow emission is believed to be produced by synchrotron emission of electrons accelerated to high energy by a relativistic collisionless shock propagating into a weakly magnetized plasma. Afterglow observations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 Zhuo Li , Eli Waxman

The second brightest GRB in history, GRB230307A, provides an ideal laboratory to study the mechanism of GRB prompt emission thanks to its extraordinarily high photon statistics and its single episode activity. Here we demonstrate that the…

Gamma-ray bursts are the most energetic electromagnetic sources in the Universe. Their prompt gamma-ray radiation corresponds to an energy release of 1E42-1E47J. Fifty years after their discovery and several dedicated space-based…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-22 J. Michael Burgess , Damien Bégué , Ana Bacelj , Dimitrios Giannios , Francesco Berlato , Jochen Greiner

The jet composition of GRB plays an important role in understanding the energy dissipation and radiation mechanisms in GRB physics, but it is poorly constrained from the observational data. Recently, an interesting long-duration GRB 230307A…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-17 Zhao-Wei Du , HouJun Lü , Xiaoxuan Liu , EnWei Liang

Evidence of polarized $\gamma$-ray emission ($>$ 50 keV) from Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) has been accumulated in recent years. Measurements have been reported with levels in the range of 30-80\%, typically with limited statistical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-22 Mark L. McConnell

Despite decades of investigations, the physical mechanism that powers the bright prompt $\gamma$-ray emission from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is still not identified. One important observational clue that remains not properly interpreted so…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-13 Z. Lucas Uhm , Bing Zhang

The high energy emission from Gamma-ray Bursts has some interesting features, including the absence of the GeV excess in the prompt spectrum, the delayed onset of the GeV emission, and the longer duration of the GeV emission than the prompt…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-16 Yi-Zhong Fan

We examine millisecond magnetars as central engines of Gamma Ray Bursts' (GRB) prompt emission. Using the proto-magnetar wind model of Metzger et al. 2011, we estimate the temporal evolution of the magnetization and power injection at the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-12 Paz Beniamini , Dimitrios Giannios , Brian D. Metzger

The jet composition and energy dissipation mechanism of Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and Blazars are fundamental questions which remain not fully understood. One plausible model is to interpret the $\gamma$-ray emission of GRBs and optical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-27 Wei Deng , Haocheng Zhang , Bing Zhang , Hui Li

The origin of prompt emission in $\gamma$-ray bursts (GRBs) is highly debated topic. The observed spectra are supposed to play a crucial role in constraining the location of the emitting region, the strength of the magnetic field and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-26 Gor Oganesyan

Radiation from GRBs in the prompt phase, flares and an afterglow is thought to be produced by accelerated electrons in magnetic fields. Such emission may be produced at collisionless shocks of baryonic outflows or at reconnection sites (at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-06-25 Mikhail V. Medvedev

The exciting detection of a very high degree of linear polarization, $P=(80\pm 20)%$, in the prompt gamma-ray emission of GRB 021206, supports synchrotron emission as being the dominant radiation mechanism. There were also claims that this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jonathan Granot

A high-degree of polarization of gamma-ray burst (GRB) prompt emission has been confirmed in recent years. In this paper, we apply jitter radiation to study the polarization feature of GRB prompt emission. In our framework, relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 J. Mao , J. Wang

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

We describe a general method for modeling gamma-ray burst prompt emission. We find that for the burst to be produced via the synchrotron process unphysical conditions are required -- the distance of the source from the center of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Pawan Kumar , Erin McMahon , UT Austin

The polarimetric measurement on the prompt phase of GRB 100826A shows that the polarization angle changes $\sim 90^{\circ}$ between two adjacent time intervals. We will show that this phenomenon can be naturally interpreted in the framework…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-07 Zhe Chang , Hai-Nan Lin

Observations of the afterglows of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have revealed that they lie at cosmological distances, and so correspond to the release of an enormous amount of energy. The nature of the central engine that powers these events and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 W. Coburn , S. E. Boggs

The brightest Gamma-ray burst, GRB 221009A, has spurred numerous theoretical investigations, with particular attention paid to the origins of ultra-high energy TeV photons during the prompt phase. However, analyzing the mechanism of…