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Spectral evolution of gamma-ray burst pulses assumed to arise from emission of fireballs is explored. It is found that, due to the curvature effect, the integrated flux and peak energy are well related by a power law in the decaying phase…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-11-13 Y. -P. Qin

Radiation-mediated shocks (RMSs) occurring below the photosphere in a gamma-ray burst (GRB) jet could play a crucial role in shaping the prompt emission. In this paper, we study the time-resolved signal expected from such early shocks. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-21 Filip Alamaa , Frédéric Daigne

The spectral evolution characteristics of the prompt emission in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have been extensively studied, but detailed investigations of spectral evolution in a GRB flare remain lacking. In this work, we present the first…

The hard X-ray and gamma-ray phenomenology of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) can be explained by an external shock model where a single relativistic blast wave interacts with the surrounding medium. Besides reproducing the generic spectral…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Charles D. Dermer

We study the spectral evolution of 13 short duration Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) detected by the Gamma Burst Monitor (GBM) on board Fermi. We study spectra resolved in time at the level of 2-512 ms in the 8 keV-35 MeV energy range. We find a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 G. Ghirlanda , G. Ghisellini , L. Nava , D. Burlon

The emission mechanism during the prompt phase in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) can be investigated through correlations between spectral properties. Here, we revisit the correlation relating the instantaneous flux, $F$, and the photon index…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-16 Felix Ryde , Hoi-Fung Yu , Hüsne Dereli-Bégué , Christoffer Lundman , Asaf Pe'er , Liang Li

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) show different behaviours and trends in their spectral evolution. One of the methods used to understand the physical origin of these behaviours is to study correlation between the spectral fit parameters. In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-09 Hüsne Dereli Bégué , Hoi-Fung Yu , Felix Ryde

The prompt emission phase of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) exhibits two distinct patterns of the peak-energy ($E_p$) evolution, i.e., time-resolved spectral analyses of $\nu F_{\nu}$ spectra of broad pulses reveal (1) "hard-to-soft" and (2)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-26 Z. Lucas Uhm , Bing Zhang , Judith Racusin

The prompt emission of most gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) typically exhibits a non-thermal Band component. The synchrotron radiation in the popular internal shock model is generally put forward to explain such a non-thermal component. However,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-17 Kai Wang , Zi-Gao Dai

Despite the great variation in the light curves of Gamma Ray Burst (GRB) prompt emission, their spectral energy distribution is generally curved and broadly peaked. In particular, their spectral evolution is well described by the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 F. Massaro , J. E. Grindlay

In this paper, we simulate the gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) prompt emission light curve, spectrum and $E_p$ evolution patterns within the framework of the Internal-Collision-induced MAgnetic Reconnection and Turbulence (ICMART) model. We show…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-30 Xueying Shao , He Gao

The observations of the prompt emission of gamma ray bursts (GRB) by GLAST Burst Monitor (GBM), on board Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, suggest the presence of a significant thermal spectral component, whose origin is not well understood.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-29 Priya Bharali , Sunder Sahayanathan , Ranjeev Misra , Kalyanee Boruah

We perform a detailed analysis on broad pulses in bright Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) to understand the evolution of GRB broad pulses. Using the temporal and spectral properties, we test the high latitude emission (HLE) scenario in the decaying…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-14 Donggeun Tak , Z. Lucas Uhm , Judith Racusin , Bing Zhang , Sylvain Guiriec , Daniel Kocevski , Bin-Bin Zhang , Julie McEnery

The synchrotron external shock model predicts the evolution of the spectral ($\beta$) and temporal ($\alpha$) indices during the gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglow for different environmental density profiles, electron spectral indices,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-15 Donggeun Tak , Nicola Omodei , Z. Lucas Uhm , Judith Racusin , Katsuaki Asano , Julie McEnery

The observational diversity of optical emission, which coincides with prompt gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), has been discovered in the recent Swift era. We show that on the assumption of the synchrotron radiation for the observed energy range…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hirotsugu Doi , Kentaro Takami , Ryo Yamazaki

Currently, the best available probe of the early phase of gamma-ray burst (GRB) jet attributes is the prompt gamma-ray emission, in which several intrinsic and extrinsic variables determine GRB pulse evolution. Bright, usually complex…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. P. Norris , J. T. Bonnell , D. Kazanas , J. D. Scargle , J. Hakkila , T. W. Giblin

We report on observations of correlated behavior between the prompt gamma-ray and optical emission from GRB 080319B, which (i) strongly suggest that they occurred within the same astrophysical source region and (ii) indicate that their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Michael Stamatikos , Tilan N. Ukwatta , Takanori Sakamoto , Kalvir S. Dhuga

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

Aims: In this paper we study the main spectral and temporal properties of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) observed by Fermi/GBM. We investigate these key properties of GRBs in the rest-frame of the progenitor and test for possible intra-parameter…

Since the suggestion of relativistic shocks as the origin of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) in early 90's, the mathematical formulation of this process has stayed at phenomenological level. One of the reasons for the slow development of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Houri Ziaeepour