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The synchrotron cooling of relativistic electrons is one of the most effective radiation mechanisms in astrophysics. It not only accompanies the process of particle acceleration but also has feedback on the formation of the energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-21 Dmitry Khangulyan , Felix Aharonian , Carlo Romoli , Andrew Taylor

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 prompt GRB emission is thought to arise from electrons accelerated in internal shocks propagating within a highly relativistic outflow. The launch of Fermi offers the prospect of observations with unprecedented sensitivity in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Z. Bosnjak , F. Daigne , G. Dubus

We propose a model in which prompt gamma emission of gamma-ray bursts is the synchrotron radiation of electron-positron plasma in the ordered magnetic field in the direct vicinity of horizon of a young black hole formed in the core collapse…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrey Neronov

In the standard scenario of the fireball model of gamma-ray bursts(GRBs), the huge initial energy release produces a relativistic blast wave expanding into the external medium and a reverse shock moving into and heating the fireball ejecta.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 X. Y. Wang , Z. G. Dai , T. Lu

Gamma-ray bursts and their afterglows are thought to be produced by an ultrarelativistic jet. One of the most important open questions is the outflow composition: the energy may be carried out from the central source either as kinetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-01 Stefano Covino

Synchrotron radiation mechanism, when electrons are accelerated in a relativistic shock, is known to have serious problems to explain the observed gamma-ray spectrum below the peak for most Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs); the synchrotron spectrum…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-11-02 R. Barniol Duran , Z. Bosnjak , P. Kumar

The dissipation mechanism that powers gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) remains uncertain almost half a century after their discovery. The two main competing mechanisms are the extensively studied internal shocks and the less studied magnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-07 Jonathan Granot

While it is generally agreed that the emitting regions in Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) move ultra relativistically towards the observer, different estimates of the initial Lorentz factors, $\Gamma_0$, lead to different, at times conflicting…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 Yuan-Chuan Zou , Tsvi Piran

GRB 160625B is an extremely-bright outburst with well-monitored afterglow emission. The geometry-corrected energy is high up to $\sim 5.2\times10^{52}$ erg or even $\sim 8\times 10^{52}$ erg, rendering it the most energetic GRB prompt…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-15 Yuan-Zhu Wang , Hao Wang , Shuai Zhang , Yun-Feng Liang , Zhi-Ping Jin , Hao-Ning He , Neng-Hui Liao , Yi-Zhong Fan , Da-Ming Wei

(short version) - A model for GRMHD disk outflows with neutrino-driven mass ejection is developed,and employed to calculate the structure of the outflow in the sub-slow magnetosonic region and the mass loading of the outflow, under…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Amir Levinson

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) appear as the brightest transient phenomena in the Universe. The nature of the central engine in GRBs is a missing link in the theory of fireballs to their stellar mass progenitors. Here it is shown that rotating…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Maurice H. P. M. van Putten

It is generally believed that cosmological Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) are produced by the deceleration of relativistic objects with Lorentz factor (Gamma) >~ 100. We study the possibility that some GRBs are produced along with relativistic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Hideyuki Umeda

We assume that internal shocks of Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) consist of multiple sub-jets with a collimation half-angle $\sim {\rm several }\times\gamma_i^{-1}$, where $\gamma_i$ is the Lorenz factor of each sub-jet. If by chance a sub-jet is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Takashi Nakamura

Internal shocks are a leading candidate for the dissipation mechanism that powers the prompt $\gamma$-ray emission in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). In this scenario a compact central source produces an ultra-relativistic outflow with varying…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-25 Sk. Minhajur Rahaman , Jonathan Granot , Paz Beniamini

There is no consensus on the emission mechanism of $\gamma$-ray bursts (GRBs). A synchrotron model can produce $\gamma$-ray spectra with the empirical Band function form, from a piece-wise two-power-law electron energy distribution (2EPLS).…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-06 Bruce Grossan , Pawan Kumar , George F. Smoot

Motivated by GW170817 we examine constraints that observations put on the angular structure of long gamma-ray burst (GRB) jets. First, the relatively narrow observed distribution of $E_{X}/E_{\gamma}$ (the isotropic equivalent early X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-12 Paz Beniamini , Ehud Nakar

The theory of cold, relativistic, magnetohydrodynamic outflows is generalized by the inclusion of an intense radiation source. In some contexts, such the breakout of a gamma-ray burst jet from a star, the outflow is heated to a high…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Matthew Russo , Christopher Thompson

We consider a jet-disk symbiosis model to explain Gamma Ray Bursts and their afterglows. It is proposed that GRBs develop in a pre-existing jet. We consider a binary system formed by a neutron star and an O/B/WR companion in which the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Giovanna Pugliese , Heino Falcke , Peter L. Biermann

Many models of gamma-ray bursts suggest a common central engine: a black hole of several solar masses accreting matter from a disk at an accretion rate from 0.01 to 10 M_\sun / s. The inner region of the disk is cooled by neutrino emission…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yi Xie , Chang-Yin Huang , Wei-Hua Lei