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Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most luminous electromagnetic burst in the Universe. They occur when a rapidly rotating massive star collapses or a binary neutron star merges. These events leave a newborn central compact object, either a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-15 Shigeo S. Kimura

One of a family previously proposed ``central engines'' for cosmic gamma-ray burst sources (Klu\'zniak & Ruderman 1998) is considered in some detail. A steadily accreting $10^6$ Gauss magnetic white dwarf should ultimately collapse to a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. A. Ruderman , L. Tao , W. Kluzniak

The detections of some long gamma-ray bursts (LGRBs) relevant to mergers of neutron star (NS)-NS or black hole (BH)-NS, as well as some short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs) probably produced by collapsars, muddle the boundary of two categories of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-17 Cui-Ying Song , Tong Liu , Ang Li

Long-duration gamma-ray bursts (LGRBs) and ultra-LGRBs (ULGRBs) originate from collapsars, in the center of which a newborn rotating stellar-mass black hole (BH) surrounded by a massive accretion disk may form. In the scenario of BH…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-10 Tong Liu , Cui-Ying Song , Bing Zhang , Wei-Min Gu , Alexander Heger

Heavy nuclei such as nickel-56 are synthesized in a wide range of core-collapse supernovae (CCSN), including energetic supernovae associated with gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Recent studies suggest that jet-like outflows are a common feature of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-04-23 Shunsaku Horiuchi , Kohta Murase , Kunihito Ioka , Peter Meszaros

We motivate how the most recent progress in the understanding the nature of the GeV radiation in most energetic gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), the binary-driven hypernovae (BdHNe), has led to the solution of a forty years unsolved problem in…

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

The system of accretion disk and black hole is usually considered as the central engine of Gamma-ray Bursts (GRBs). It is usually thought that the disk in the central engine of GRBs is the advection-dominated accretion disk, which is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Shu-Jin Hou , Tong Liu , Da-Bin Lin , Xue-Feng Wu , Ju-Fu Lu

One of the mysteries that surround gamma-ray bursts (GRB) is the origin of two classes of events: long and short GRB. The short GRB are similar to the first second of a long GRB. We suggest that the short bursts are interrupted long bursts,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander Kusenko , Dmitry V. Semikoz

Gamma-ray bursts (GRB) are short and intense bursts of $\sim$100 keV$-$1MeV photons, usually followed by long-lasting decaying afterglow emission in a wide range of electromagnetic wavelengths from radio to X-ray and, sometimes, even to GeV…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-05 Yun-Wei Yu , He Gao , Fa-Yin Wang , Bin-Bin Zhang

The observations suggest that $\gamma$-ray bursts (GRBs) are produced by jets of relativistic cannonballs (CBs), emitted in supernova (SN) explosions. The CBs, reheated by their collision with the SN shell, emit radiation and Doppler-boost…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. De Rujula

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) offer a powerful window to probe the progenitor systems responsible for the formation of heavy elements through the rapid neutron capture (r-) process, thanks to their exceptional luminosity, which allows them to be…

Black hole - neutron star (BHNS) and neutron star - neutron star (NSNS) binaries are among the favored candidates for the progenitors of the black hole - disk systems that may be the engines powering short-hard gamma ray bursts. After…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-29 Vasileios Paschalidis

We describe the results high resolution, hydrodynamic calculations of neutron star mergers. The model makes use of a new, nuclear equation of state, accounts for multi-flavour neutrino emission and solves the equations of hydrodynamics…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Rosswog

Long-duration $\gamma$-ray bursts (GRBs) accompany the collapse of massive stars and carry information about the central engine. However, no 3D models have been able to follow these jets from their birth by a black-hole (BH) to the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-06 Ore Gottlieb , Matthew Liska , Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Omer Bromberg , Aretaios Lalakos , Dimitrios Giannios , Philipp Mösta

Recently, a kilonova-associated gamma-ray burst (GRB 211211A), whose light curve consists of a precursor ($\sim$0.2 s), a hard spiky emission ($\sim$10 s), and a soft long extended emission ($\sim$40 s), has attracted great attention.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-09 He Gao , Wei-Hua Lei , Zi-Pei Zhu

We consider accretion onto newborn black holes following the collapse of rotating massive stellar cores, at the threshold where a centrifugally supported disk gives way to nearly radial inflow for low angular momentum. For realistic initial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Diego Lopez-Camara , William H. Lee , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

We consider the explosion of supernovae and the possible production of a variety of high energy transients by delayed black hole formation in massive stars endowed with rotation. Following the launch of a ``successful'' shock by the usual…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 A. I. MacFadyen , S. E. Woosley , A. Heger

Most Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have erratic light curves, which demand that the GRB central engine launches an episodic outflow. Recent Fermi observations of some GRBs indicate a lack of the thermal photosphere component as predicted by the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Feng Yuan , Bing Zhang

The collapse of rotating massive (~$10 M_\odot$) stars resulting in hyperaccreting black holes (BHs; "collapsars") is a leading model for the central engines of long-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and a promising source of rapid neutron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-21 Aman Agarwal , Daniel M. Siegel , Brian D. Metzger , Chris Nagele