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We examine analytically and numerically the evolution of a relativistic fireball. We show that, after an early rearrangement phase, most of the matter and energy in the fireball is concentrated within a narrow shell. The shell propagates at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Tsvi Piran , Amotz Shemi , Ramesh Narayan

We simulate the dynamics of the interaction between relativistically expanding spherically symmetric shells using a 1-dimensional hydrodynamic code and calculate spectra and light-curves arising from such collisions by integrating the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Panaitescu , P. Meszaros

The fireball created in an ultrarelativistic heavy ion collision is the environment in which all processes providing clues about the possible formation of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) happen. It is therefore crucial to understand the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Renk , R. A. Schneider , W. Weise

We calculate both analytically and numerically the evolution of a highly relativistic fireball through the stages of free expansion and coasting, and determine the dependence of the thermodynamic and radiation variables in the comoving and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 P. Mészáros , P. Laguna , M. J. Rees

Evolution process could be calculated from the relativistic hydrodynamic equation with certain estimated initial conditions about a single spherical fireball here. So one could estimate a kind of initial condition qualitatively with a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Hong Miao , Zhongbiao Ma , Chongshou Gao

We present an analytical approach to the dynamical evolution of fireballs or axially symmetric jets expanding into an external medium, with application to Gamma-Ray Burst remnants. This method leads to numerical calculations of fireball…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 A. Panaitescu , P. Meszaros

Hydrodynamical interaction of spherical ejecta freely expanding at mildly relativistic speeds into an ambient cold medium is studied in semi-analytical and numerical ways to investigate how ejecta produced in energetic stellar explosions…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-04 Akihiro Suzuki , Keiichi Maeda , Toshikazu Shigeyama

The postburst evolution of fireballs that produce $\gamma$-ray bursts is studied, assuming the expansion of fireballs to be adiabatic and relativistic. Numerical results as well as an approximate analytic solution for the evolution are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Y. F. Huang , Z. G. Dai , D. M. Wei , T. Lu

Hydrodynamic expansion of the hot fireball created in relativistic Au-Au collisions at 200GeV in 3+1-dimensions is studied. We obtain a simultaneous, satisfactory description of the transverse momentum spectra, elliptic flow and pion…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-05-01 Piotr Bozek , Iwona Wyskiel

Optically thick energy dominated plasma created in the source of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) expands radially with acceleration and forms a shell with constant width measured in the laboratory frame. When strong Lorentz factor gradients are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-09-17 R. Ruffini , I. A. Siutsou , G. V. Vereshchagin

The Gamma-Ray Bursts - GRBs are one of the most energetic astronomical events in the universe that have not yet an adequate explanation of what kind of mechanism is carried out. This question motivates the astronomical community to do…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-07-05 Camilo Delgado-Correal

Expanding blast waves are ubiquitous in many astronomical sources, such as supernovae remnants (SNRs), X-ray emitting binaries (XRBs) and gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). I consider here the dynamics of such an expanding blast wave, both in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Asaf Pe'er

The hydrodynamical interaction between freely expanding supernova ejecta and a relativistic wind injected from the central region is studied in analytic and numerical ways. As a result of the collision between the ejecta and the wind, a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-25 Akihiro Suzuki , Keiichi Maeda

The sudden release of copious $\g$-ray photons into a compact region creates an opaque photon--lepton fireball due to the prolific production of electron--positron pairs. The photons that we observe in the bursts emerge only at the end of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tsvi Piran

In previous works, a generic dynamical model has been suggested by Huang et al., which is shown to be correct for both adiabatic and radiative blastwaves, and in both ultra-relativistic and non-relativistic phases. In deriving their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 J. B. Feng , Y. F. Huang , Z. G. Dai , T. Lu

In this study, we investigate the gravitational collapses of rotating stellar systems accounting for Gamma-Ray Burst jet progenitors. Based on the virial theorem of hadron collisional relaxations and Newtonian slow-rotating approximation,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-31 She-Sheng Xue

In cosmological first-order phase transitions, gravitational waves are generated by the collisions of bubble walls and by the bulk motions caused in the fluid. A sizeable signal may result from fast-moving walls. In this work we study the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-16 Leonardo Leitao , Ariel Megevand

We discuss the use of the hydrodynamic model for the description of the evolution of dense matter formed in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions. The collective flow observed in heavy-ion collisions at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 Piotr Bozek , Wojciech Broniowski

We numerically model the interaction between an expanding fireball and a stationary external medium whose density is either homogeneous or varies with distance as a power-law. The evolution is followed until most of the fireball kinetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 A. Panaitescu , L. Wen , P. Laguna , P. Meszaros

A pedagogical derivation is presented of the ``fireball'' model of gamma-ray bursts, according to which the observable effects are due to the dissipation of the kinetic energy of a relativistically expanding wind, a ``fireball.'' The main…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-13 E. Waxman
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