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We explore the observational appearance of the photosphere of an ultrarelativistic flow with internal dissipation of energy as predicted by the magnetic reconnection model. Previous study of the radiative transfer in the photospheric region…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Dimitrios Giannios , Henk C. Spruit

We compare the luminosity function and rate inferred from the GBM long bursts peak flux distribution with those inferred from the Swift and BATSE peak flux distribution. We find that the GBM, BATSE and the Swift peak fluxes can be fitted by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-11-05 Dafne Guetta , Elena Pian

Particle acceleration in relativistic shocks is not a very well understood subject. Owing to that difficulty, radiation spectra from relativistic shocks, such as those in GRB afterglows, have been often modelled by making assumptions about…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Resmi , D. Bhattacharya

Much evidence points towards that the photosphere in the relativistic outflow in GRBs plays an important role in shaping the observed MeV spectrum. However, it is unclear whether the spectrum is fully produced by the photosphere or whether…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-04-01 S. Iyyani , F. Ryde , B. Ahlgren , J. M. Burgess , J. Larsson , A. Pe'er , C. Lundman , M. Axelsson , S. McGlynn

Particle acceleration in relativistic collisionless shocks remains an open problem in high-energy astrophysics. Particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations predict that electron acceleration in weakly magnetized shocks proceeds via small-angle…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-25 Zhao-Feng Wu , Sofía Guevara-Montoya , Paz Beniamini , Dimitrios Giannios , Daniel Grošelj , Lorenzo Sironi

Gamma-ray burst (GRB) spectra are typically non-thermal, with many including two spectral breaks suggestive of optically-thin emission. However, the emitted spectrum from a GRB photosphere, which includes prior dissipation of energy by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-16 Oscar Wistemar , Filip Alamaa , Felix Ryde

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 detection of delayed X-ray, optical and radio emission, "afterglow", associated with $\gamma$-ray bursts (GRBs) is consistent with fireball models, where the emission are produced by relativistic expanding blast wave, driven by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 D. M. Wei , T. Lu

We analyze the spectral evolution of GRB 090902B and show that subphotospheric dissipation can explain both the spectra and the spectral evolution. The emission from a GRB photosphere can give rise to a variety of spectral shapes. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-11-03 T. Nymark , M. Axelsson , C. Lundman , E. Moretti , F. Ryde , A. Pe'er

We test the models of synchrotron emission presented in Part I of this series (Lloyd & Petrosian, these proceedings) against the distributions and evolution of GRB spectral parameters (particularly the low energy index, $\alpha$). With…

Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-06 Nicole M. Lloyd-Ronning , Vahe' Petrosian , Robert D. Preece

The variability in multi-pulse gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) may help to reveal the mechanism of underlying processes from the central engine. To investigate whether the self-organized criticality (SOC) phenomena exist in the prompt phase of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-15 Fen Lyu , Ya-Ping Li , Shu-Jin Hou , Jun-Jie Wei , Jin-Jun Geng , Xue-Feng Wu

We consider here a proton-synchrotron model to explain the MAGIC observation of GRB 190114C afterglow in the energy band $0.2 - 1$~TeV, while the X-ray spectra are explained by electron-synchrotron emission. Given the uncertainty of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-02 Hebzibha Isravel , Asaf Pe'er , Damien Begue

INTEGRAL has two sensitive gamma-ray instruments that have detected 46 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) up to July 2007. We present the spectral, spatial, and temporal properties of the bursts in the INTEGRAL GRB catalogue using data from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-30 S. Foley , S. McGlynn , L. Hanlon , S. McBreen , B. McBreen

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), among the most compelling astrophysical phenomena, are potential candidates for exploring the evolution of energy distribution among magnetic fields and particles through multiwavelength observations. The fraction…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-18 Nissim Fraija , Boris Betancourt-Kamenetskaia , Antonio Galván , Maria Dainotti

The prompt emission from GRBs is the brightest electromagnetic emission known yet it's origin is not understood. The flux density of individual prompt pulses of a GRB can be represented by an analytical expression derived assuming the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 R. Willingale , F. Genet , J. Granot , P. T. O'Brien

We performed accurate numerical calculations of angle-, time-, and frequency-dependent radiative transfer for the relativistic motion of matter in gamma-ray burst (GRB) models. Our technique for solving the transfer equation, which is based…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. G. Tolstov , S. I. Blinnikov

The {\gamma}-ray flares from the Crab nebula observed by AGILE and Fermi-LAT reaching GeV energies and lasting several days challenge the standard models for particle acceleration in pulsar wind nebulae, because the radiating electrons have…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-21 John J Kroon , Peter A Becker , Justin Finke , Charles Dermer

Energetic GeV photons expected from the closest and the most energetic Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) provide an unique opportunity to study the very-high-energy emission as well as the possible correlations with lower energy bands in realistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-19 Nissim Fraija , P. Veres , B. Betancourt Kamenetskaia , A. Galvan-Gamez , M. G. Dainotti , Simone Dichiara , R. L. Becerra

Using a pulse-fit method, we investigate the spectral lags between the traditional gamma-ray band (50-400 keV) and the X-ray band (6-25 keV) for 8 GRBs with known redshifts (GRB 010921, GRB 020124, GRB 020127, GRB 021211, GRB 030528, GRB…

The paradigm for GRB prompt emission is changing. Since early in the CGRO era, the empirical Band function has been considered a good description of the keV-MeV spectra although its shape is very often inconsistent with the predictions of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-16 S. Guiriec , M. M. Gonzalez , J. R. Sacahui , C. Kouveliotou , N. Gehrels , J. McEnery