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The afterglow emission from a spreading jet expanding in a circumstellar cloud is discussed. Prompt X-ray radiation and a strong UV flash from the reverse shock produced by the interaction of the jet with the cloud may destroy and clear the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Z. G. Dai , Y. F. Huang , T. Lu

The composition of gamma-ray burst (GRB) jets remained a mystery until recently. In practice, we usually characterize the magnetization of the GRB jets ($\sigma_0$) through the ratio between the Poynting flux and matter (baryonic) flux.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-05 An Li , He Gao , Lin Lan , Bing Zhang

We present multiwavelength modeling of the afterglow from the long gamma-ray burst GRB 160625B using Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) techniques of the afterglowpy Python package. GRB 160625B is an extremely bright burst with a rich set of…

The prompt Gamma-Ray Bursts' (GRBs) efficiency is an important clue on the emission mechanism producing the $\gamma$-rays. Previous estimates of the kinetic energy of the blast waves, based on the X-ray afterglow luminosity $L_X$, suggested…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-15 Paz Beniamini , Lara Nava , Tsvi Piran

Gamma Ray Burst and Soft Gamma Repeaters are neither standard candle nor isotropic explosions. Our model explain them as strong blazing of a light-house, spinning and precessing gamma jet. Such jets at maximal output (as GRBs in Supernova…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Daniele Fargion

The origin of GRBs have been a mystery for almost 30 years. The afterglow observed in the last few years enabled redshift determination for a handful of bursts, and the cosmological origin is now firmly established. Though the distance…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Re'em Sari

Long duration gamma-ray bursts (GRB) are at cosmological distance, they appear to be located near star forming regions, and are likely associated with some type of supernovae. They are also likely to be strongly beamed, which lowers their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Bohdan Paczynski

Gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglows are likely produced in the shock that is driven as the GRB jet interacts with the external medium. Long-duration GRBs are also associated with powerful supernovae (SNe). We consider the optical and radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-08 Adithan Kathirgamaraju , Rodolfo Barniol Duran , Dimitrios Giannios

We compare the prompt intrinsic spectral properties of a sample of short Gamma--ray Burst (GRB) with the first 0.3 seconds (rest frame) of long GRBs observed by Fermi/GBM. We find that short GRBs and the first part of long GRBs lie on the…

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are known to be the most violent explosions in the universe, and a variety of correlations between observable GRB properties have been proposed in literature, but none of these correlations is valid for both long…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-24 Qi Guo , Da-Ming Wei , Yuan-Zhu Wang , Zhi-Ping Jin

Using the Swift data of GRB 050315, we progress on the uniqueness of our theoretically predicted Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) structure as composed by a proper-GRB (P-GRB), emitted at the transparency of an electron-positron plasma with suitable…

It is generally believed that the variability of photospheric emission in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) traces that of the jet power. This work further investigates the variability of photospheric emission in a variable jet. By setting a constant…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-26 Kai Wang , Da-Bin Lin , Yun Wang , Lu-yao Jiang , Shen-Shi Du , Xiao-Yan Li , Jia Ren , Xiang-gao Wang , En-Wei Liang

The central engine of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is believed to eject double-sided ultra-relativistic jets. For an observed GRB, one of the twin jets should point toward us, and is responsible for the prompt gamma-ray and subsequent afterglow…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Zhuo Li , Li-Ming Song

The multi-messenger joint observations of GW170817 and GRB170817A shed new light on the study of short-duration gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs). Not only did it substantiate the assumption that SGRBs originate from binary neutron star (BNS)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-03 Jia-wei Luo , Ye Li , Shunke Ai , He Gao , Bing Zhang

Knowledge of the bulk Lorentz factor $\Gamma_{0}$ of GRBs allows us to compute their comoving frame properties shedding light on their physics. Upon collisions with the circumburst matter, the fireball of a GRB starts to decelerate,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-31 G. Ghirlanda , F. Nappo , G. Ghisellini , A. Melandri , G. Marcarini , L. Nava , O. S. Salafia , S. Campana , R. Salvaterra

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are rare but powerful explosions displaying highly relativistic jets. It has been suggested that a significant fraction of the much more frequent core-collapse supernovae are accompanied by comparably energetic but…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Shin'ichiro Ando , John F. Beacom

We discuss jet dynamics for narrow and wide gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglow jets and the observational implications of numerical simulations of relativistic jets in two dimensions. We confirm earlier numerical results that sideways…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Hendrik J. van Eerten , Andrew I. MacFadyen

Gamma-Ray Burst GRB 241030A (z = 1.411) exhibited a bright afterglow (similar to GRB 221009A), detected across gamma-ray, X-ray, UV, and optical bands, providing a probe of GRB afterglow physics. We compiled multi-wavelength observations…

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 show the peak magnitude for orphan afterglows from the jets of gravitational wave (GW) detected black-hole/neutron star - neutron star (BH/NS-NS) mergers highly depends on the jet half-opening angle $\theta_j$. Short $\gamma$-ray bursts…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-18 Gavin P Lamb , Shiho Kobayashi