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Previous studies have considered synchrotron as the emission mechanism for prompt Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs). These works have shown that the electrons must cool on a timescale comparable to the dynamic time at the source in order to satisfy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-28 Paz Beniamini , Rodolfo Barniol Duran , Dimitrios Giannios

The prompt emission of gamma-ray bursts remains mysterious since the mechanism is difficult to understand even though there are much more observations with the development of detection technology. But most of the gamma-ray bursts spectra…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-26 Ming-Ya Duan , Xiang-Gao Wang

Different forms of long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) Luminosity Functions are considered on the basis of an explicit physical model. The inferred flux distributions are compared with the observed ones from two samples of GRBs, Swift and Fermi…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-17 Shreya Banerjee , David Eichler , Dafne Guetta

The low-energy spectra of gamma-ray bursts' (GRBs) prompt emission are closely related to the energy distribution of electrons, which is further regulated by their cooling processes. We develop a numerical code to calculate the evolution of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-16 Jin-Jun Geng , Yong-Feng Huang , Xue-Feng Wu , Bing Zhang , Hong-Shi Zong

Observations of gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglows have long provided the most detailed information about the origin of this spectacular phenomena. The model that is most commonly used to extract physical properties of the event from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-06 Guðlaugur Jóhannesson , Gunnlaugur Björnsson

Recent observations have shown that repeating Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) exhibit band-limited emission, whose frequency-dependent amplitude can be modeled using a Gaussian function. In this analysis, we show that banded emission of FRBs can…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-20 Kshitij Aggarwal

The modelling of gamma-ray burst (GRB) spectra has considerable potential for increasing the understanding of these enigmatic sources. A diversity of ideas and analyses has been generated over the last two decades to explain line features…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 M. G. Baring

The spectra of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) in a wide energy range can usually be well described by the Band function, which is a two smoothly jointed power laws cutting at a breaking energy. Below the breaking energy, the Band function reduces…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-08 Hai-Nan Lin , Xin Li , Zhe Chang

We performed time-resolved spectroscopy on a sample of 38 single pulses from 37 gamma-ray bursts detected by the Fermi/Gamma-ray Burst Monitor during its first 9 years of mission. For the first time a fully Bayesian approach is applied. A…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 Hoi-Fung Yu , Hüsne Dereli-Bégué , Felix Ryde

We analyze gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) detected by \textit{Fermi}/Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor (GBM) and having single pulse. We fit the light curves with a model having exponential rise and decay parts. We perform a detailed time-resolved…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Rupal Basak , A. R. Rao

Synchrotron circular polarization of a non-thermal power-law electron distribution in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) has been studied. However, some numerical simulations have shown that the resulting distribution of electrons is a combination of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-29 Kangfa Cheng , Jirong Mao , Xiaohong Zhao , Hongbang Liu , Zhegeng Chen , Gaojin Yu , Zhifu Chen

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are highly variable and exhibit strong spectral evolution. In particular, the emission properties vary from pulse to pulse in multipulse bursts. Here we present a time-resolved Bayesian spectral analysis of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-20 Liang Li , Felix Ryde , Asaf Pe'er , Hoi-Fung Yu , Zeynep Acuner

A theoretical attempt to identify the physical process responsible for the afterglow emission of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) is presented, leading to the occurrence of thermal emission in the comoving frame of the shock wave giving rise to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Ruffini , C. L. Bianco , P. Chardonnet , F. Fraschetti , V. Gurzadyan , S. -S. Xue

The origin of the prompt emission in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is still an unsolved problem and several different mechanisms have been suggested. Here we fit Fermi GRB data with a photospheric emission model which includes dissipation of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-30 Björn Ahlgren , Josefin Larsson , Tanja Nymark , Felix Ryde , Asaf Pe'er

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the universe's most energetic phenomena (isotropic luminosity $\sim 10^{51} - 10^{54}$ ergs/s) lasting for a very short duration ($\sim$ milliseconds - a few seconds). Even after an average of one GRB detected…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-13 Soumya Gupta , Sunder Sahayanathan , Saharsh Shanu , Rishabh Nath

X-ray emission can provide a crucial diagnostic of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). We calculate the X-ray and gamma-ray spectra of impulsive acceleration episodes related to GRB pulses. We use the synchrotron shock model (SSM) as a basis of our…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 M. Tavani

Ultra-relativistic motion and efficient conversion of kinetic energy to radiation are required by gamma-ray burst (GRB) observations, yet they are difficult to simultaneously achieve. Three leading mechanisms have been proposed to explain…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-06 Damien Bégué , J. Michael Burgess

$GRB~160802A$ is one of the brightest gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) observed with $Fermi$ Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) in the energy range of $10~-~1000$ keV, while at the same time it is surprisingly faint at energies $\gtrsim2$ MeV. An…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-08 Vikas Chand , Tanmoy Chattopadhyay , S. Iyyani , Rupal Basak , Aarthy , E. , A. R. Rao , Santosh V. Vadawale , Dipankar Bhattacharya , V. B. Bhalerao

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

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are ultra-relativistic collimated outflows, which emit synchrotron radiation throughout the entire electromagnetic spectrum when they interact with their environment. This afterglow emission enables us to probe the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-09 M. D. Aksulu , R. A. M. J. Wijers , H. J. van Eerten , A. J. van der Horst