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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

If gamma-ray burst (GRB) emission is strongly collimated then GRBs occur throughout the Universe at a rate much higher than is detected. Since the emission from the optical afterglow is thought to be more isotropic than the gamma-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Neal Dalal , Kim Griest , Jason Pruet

Synchrotron and inverse Compton emission successfully explain the observed spectra of gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglows. It is thought that most GRBs are products of extremely relativistic outflows and the afterglow marks the interaction of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-04 Marcus DuPont , Andrew MacFadyen , Re'em Sari

The X-ray spectra of Gamma-Ray Bursts can generally be described by an absorbed power law. The landmark discovery of thermal X-ray emission in addition to the power law in the unusual GRB 060218, followed by a similar discovery in GRB…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 R. L. C. Starling , K. L. Page , A. Pe'er , A. P. Beardmore , J. P. Osborne

The angular dependence of emission in gamma-ray bursts (GRB) is of fundamental importance in understanding the underlying physical mechanisms, as well as in multimessenger search efforts. We examine the prospects of using reconstructed GRB…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-11-04 N. Miller , S. Marka , I. Bartos

Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) show evidence of different light curves, duration, afterglows, host galaxies and they explode within a wide redshift range. However, their spectral energy distributions (SEDs) appear to be very similar showing a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 F. Massaro , J. E. Grindlay , A. Paggi

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

We aim to investigate the ability of simple spectral models to describe the GRB early afterglow emission. We performed a time resolved spectral analysis of a bright GRB sample detected by the Swift Burst Alert Telescope and promptly…

The light curves of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are believed to result from internal shocks reflecting the activity of the GRB central engine. Their temporal deconvolution can reveal potential differences in the properties of the central…

Gamma-ray Burst (GRB) collimation has been inferred with the observations of achromatic steepening in GRB light curves, known as jet breaks. Identifying a jet break from a GRB afterglow lightcurve allows a measurement of the jet opening…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-13 Xiang-Gao Wang , Bing Zhang , En-Wei Liang , Rui-Jing Lu , Jing Li , Long Li

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

We present the systematic spectral analyses of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) detected by the Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor (GBM) during its first ten years of operation. This catalog contains two types of spectra; time-integrated spectral fits…

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

Gamma-ray bursts (GRB) are sudden, intense flashes of gamma-rays which, for a few blinding seconds, light up in an otherwise fairly dark gamma-ray sky. They are detected at the rate of about once a day, and while they are on, they outshine…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 P. Meszaros

We consider the properties of a hyperaccretion model for gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) at the late time when the mass supply rate is expected to decrease with time. We point out that the region in the vicinity of the accretor and the accretor…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Daniel Proga , Bing Zhang

We have carried out a detailed study of the GRB photospheric emission model predicting a quasi-blackbody spectrum slightly broader than a Planck function. This model was suggested within the relativistic fireball dynamics for interpreting a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-10 Amina Trabelsi , Mourad Fouka , Saad Ouichaoui , Amel Belhout

The spectral components of the prompt emission of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) mainly consist of two possible origins: synchrotron (nonthermal) and photosphere (thermal). The typical spectral properties of GRBs can be modeled by a dominant…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-11-12 Liang Li

Absorption and reprocessing of Gamma-ray burst radiation in the environment of cosmological GRBs can be used as a powerful probe of the elusive nature of their progenitors. Although it is widely accepted that long-duration GRBs are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Boettcher

In this paper, we explore time resolved Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) spectra in the context of the synchrotron emission model presented in Lloyd and Petrosian (2000; LP00). First, we show that our model - which involves three distinct emission…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Nicole M. Lloyd-Ronning , Vahe' Petrosian

Jet precession has previously been proposed to explain the apparently repeating features in the light curves of a few gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). In this {\it Letter}, we further apply the precession model to a bright GRB 220408B by examining…