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Highly relativistic jets are a key element of current gamma-ray burst models, where the jet kinetic energy is converted to radiation energy at optically thin shocks. High-energy neutrinos are also expected, from interactions of protons…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Shunsaku Horiuchi , Shin'ichiro Ando

This paper is a brief review of the processes responsible for X-ray emission from radio jets, lobes and hot spots. Possible photons in inverse Compton scattering models include the radio synchrotron radiation itself (i.e. synchrotron…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Andrew S. Wilson

The jet composition of GRB plays an important role in understanding the energy dissipation and radiation mechanisms in GRB physics, but it is poorly constrained from the observational data. Recently, an interesting long-duration GRB 230307A…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-17 Zhao-Wei Du , HouJun Lü , Xiaoxuan Liu , EnWei Liang

A puzzling feature of the {\it Chandra}--detected quasar jets is that their X-ray emission decreases faster along the jet than their radio emission, resulting to an outward increasing radio to X-ray ratio. In some sources this behavior is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Markos Georganopoulos , Demosthenes Kazanas

The gamma-ray burst (GRB) 060218/SN 2006aj is a peculiar event, with the second lowest redshift, low luminosity, long duration, chromatic lightcurve features, and in particular, the presence of a thermal component in the X-ray and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Z. G. Dai , Bing Zhang , E. W. Liang

We present the results of three dimensional relativistic hydrodynamic simulations of interaction of AGN jets with a dense turbulent two-phase interstellar medium, which would be typical of high redshift galaxies. We describe the effect of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-15 Dipanjan Mukherjee , Geoffrey V. Bicknell , Ralph S. Sutherland , A. Y. Wagner

A persistent, thin, micro-nano sr. beamed gamma jet, may be ejected from BH and Pulsars, powered by ultra-relativistic electron pairs. These jet while precessing and spinning are originated by Inverse Compton and-or Synchrotron Radiation at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 D. Fargion , O. Lanciano , P. Oliva

Recent observations of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have provided growing evidence for collimated outflows and emission, and strengthened the connection between GRBs and supernovae. If massive stars are the progenitors of GRBs, the hard photon…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Piero Madau , Roger D. Blandford , Martin J. Rees

We show that, contrary to common belief, internal shocks can arise in an accelerating radiation-dominated jet if it is confined even weakly to a converging opening angle because the acceleration declines. The radiation-dominated internal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-04-23 Kunihito Ioka , Yutaka Ohira , Norita Kawanaka , Akira Mizuta

The merger of two neutron stars (NSs) produces the emission of gravitational waves, the formation of a compact object surrounded by a dense and magnetized environment, and the launching of a collimated and relativistic jet, which will…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-18 Leonardo Garcia-Garcia , Diego Lopez-Camara , Davide Lazzati

Supercriticality of the same kind as that in a nuclear pile can take place in high-energy astrophysical objects producing a number of impressive effects. For example, it could cause an explosive release of the energy of a cloud of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-10 Boris E. Stern , Juri Poutanen

Relativistic jets are ubiquitous in astrophysical systems that contain compact objects. They transport large amounts of energy to large distances from the source, and their interaction with the ambient medium has a crucial effect on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Omer Bromberg , Ehud Nakar , Tsvi Piran , Re'em Sari

In the collapsar scenario, gamma ray bursts are caused by relativistic jets expelled along the rotation axis of a collapsing stellar core. We discuss how the structure and time-dependence of such jets depends on the stellar envelope and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 P. Meszaros , M. J. Rees

A list of questions regarding Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) and Soft Gamma Repeaters (SGRs) remain unanswered within the Fireball-cone and Magnetar explosive scenarios. A persistent, thin (less than micron-sr solid angle) precessing and spinning…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 D. Fargion , M. Grossi

The detection of TeV gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) brought new opportunities for studying the physics of particle acceleration at relativistic shocks. The \hess telescopes recently observed very-high-energy (VHE) emission from a nearby…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-09 B. Theodore Zhang , Kohta Murase , Péter Veres , Péter Mészáros

Observations of both gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and active galactic nuclei (AGNs) point to the idea that some relativistic jets are suffocated by their environment before we observe them. In these "choked" jets, all the jet's kinetic energy is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-04 Christopher M. Irwin , Ehud Nakar , Tsvi Piran

Long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are commonly accepted to originate in the explosion of particularly massive stars, which gives rise to a highly relativistic jet. Internal inhomogeneities in the expanding flow give rise to internal shock waves…

The recent claim by Coburn & Boggs to have detected a very high degree of linear polarization in the prompt emission of GRB 021206 has stimulated interest in how much polarization could arise in gamma-ray bursts from synchrotron emission.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Davide Lazzati , Elena Rossi , Gabriele Ghisellini , Martin J. Rees

The role of relativistic jets in unbinding the stellar envelope during a supernova (SN) associated with a gamma-ray burst (GRB) is unclear. To study that, we explore observational signatures of stellar explosions that are driven by jets. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-17 Moshe Eisenberg , Ore Gottlieb , Ehud Nakar

We consider the conditions within a Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) emission region that is Poynting flux dominated. Due to the enormous magnetic energy density, relativistic electrons will cool in such a region extremely rapidly via synchrotron. As…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Paz Beniamini , Tsvi Piran