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Extended emission is a mystery in short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs). By making time resolved spectral analyses of brightest nine events observed by ${\it Swift}$ XRT, we obviously classify the early X-ray emission of SGRBs into two types. One…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-11-30 Yasuaki Kagawa , Daisuke Yonetoku , Tatsuya Sawano , Asuka Toyanago , Takashi Nakamura , Keitaro Takahashi , Kazumi Kashiyama , Kunihito Ioka

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

The physical processes of the gamma-ray emission and particle acceleration during the prompt phase in GRBs are still unsettled. In order to perform an unambiguous physical modelling of observations, a clear identification of the emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-29 Felix Ryde , Shabnam Iyyani , Björn Ahlgren , Asaf Peer , Vidushi Sharma , Christoffer Lundman , Magnus Axelsson

The physical composition of the ejecta of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) remains an open question. The radiation mechanism of the prompt gamma rays is also in debate. This problem can be solved for the bursts hosting distinct thermal radiation.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-07 Yun Wang , Tian-Ci Zheng , Zhi-Ping Jin

The explosion that results in a cosmic gamma-ray burst (GRB) is thought to produce emission from two physical processes -- the activity of the central engine gives rise to the high-energy emission of the burst through internal shocking and…

Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are extra-galactic and extremely energetic transient emissions of gamma rays, which are thought to be associated with the death of massive stars or the merger of compact objects in binary systems. Their huge…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-20 F. Piron

The prompt emission from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) still requires a physical explanation. Studies of time-resolved GRB spectra, observed in the keV-MeV range, show that a hybrid model consisting of two components, a photospheric and a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Milan Battelino , Felix Ryde , Nicola Omodei , Francesco Longo

Since their discovery in 1973, Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) have remained for many years one of the most elusive mysteries in High Energy-Astrophysics. The main problem regarding the nature of GRBs has usually been the lack of knowledge of their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alberto J. Castro-Tirado

The principal paradigm for gamma-ray bursts suggest that the prompt transient gamma-ray signal arises from multiple shocks internal to the relativistic expansion. This paper illustrates some properties of diffusive acceleration at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Matthew G. Baring

The early X-ray afterglows of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are usually well described by absorbed power laws. However, in some cases, additional thermal components have been identified. The origin of this emission is debated, with proposed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-27 Vlasta Valan , Josefin Larsson , Björn Ahlgren

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) divide into two classes: "long", which typically have initial durations of T90>2s, and "short", with durations of T90<2s (where T90 is the time to detect 90% of the observed fluence). Long bursts, which on average…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-16 N. R. Tanvir , R. Chapman , A. J. Levan , R. S. Priddey

The gamma ray burst apparent average isotropic power versus their red-shift of all known GRB (Sept.2009) is reported. It calls for an unrealistic Gamma Ray Burst Evolution around us or it just probe the need of a very thin gamma…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 D. Fargion , D. D'Armiento

Prompt extra power-law (PL) spectral component is discovered in some bright gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), which usually dominates the spectral energy distribution below tens of keV or above about 10 MeV. However, its origin is still unclear. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-15 Qing-Wen Tang , Kai Wang , Liang Li , Ruo-Yu Liu

To understand the physical mechanisms underlying the prompt emission of gamma-ray bursts (GRB), single FRED (Fast-Rise-Exponential-Decay) profile GRBs serve as an ideal sample, as they origin from single epoch central engine activity. These…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-24 Shu-Xu Yi , Chen-Wei Wang , Shao-Lin Xiong , Shuang-Nan Zhang , Romain Maccary , Rahim Moradi , Shuo Xiao , Hua Feng

Long-lasting emission of short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is crucial to reveal the physical origin of the central engine as well as to detect electromagnetic (EM) counterparts to gravitational waves (GWs) from neutron star binary mergers. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-20 Shota Kisaka , Kunihito Ioka , Takanori Sakamoto

Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are thought to originate at cosmological distances from the most powerful explosions in the Universe. If GRBs are not beamed then the distribution of their number as a function of Gamma-ray flux implies that they…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Abraham Loeb , Rosalba Perna

Before the launch of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope there were only a handful of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) detected at high energies (above 100 MeV), while several different suggestions have been made for possible high-energy emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Jonathan Granot

A gamma-ray burst (GRB) releases an amount of energy similar to that of a supernova explosion, which combined with its rapid variability suggests an origin related to neutron stars or black holes. Since these compact stellar remnants form…

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) show a bimodal distribution of durations, separated at a duration of ~2 s. Observations have confirmed the association of long GRBs with the collapse of massive stars. The origin of short GRBs is still being…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Anna Barnacka , Abraham Loeb

The prompt emission of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) could be composed of different spectral components, such as a dominant non-thermal Band component in the keV-MeV range, a subdominant quasi-thermal component, and an additional hard non-thermal…

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