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The neutrino-cooled accretion disk, which was proposed to work as the central engine of gamma-ray bursts, encounters difficulty in interpreting the X-ray flares after the prompt gamma-ray emission. In this paper, the magnetic coupling…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Yang Luo , Wei-Min Gu , Tong Liu , Ju-Fu Lu

We present very high resolution hydrodynamical simulations of accretion discs in black hole X-ray binaries accreting near the Eddington limit. The results show that mass loss, irradiation and tidal interactions all have a profound effect on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Michael Truss , Graham Wynn

We present a model for gamma-ray bursts (GRB's) in which a stellar mass black hole acquires a massive accretion disk by merging with the helium core of its red giant companion. The black hole enters the helium core after it, or its neutron…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 C. L. Fryer , S. E. Woosley

The origin of extended emissions following prompt emissions of short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs) is in mystery. The long-term activity of the extended emission is responsible for promising electromagnetic counterparts to gravitational waves…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-12 Yasuaki Kagawa , Daisuke Yonetoku , Tatsuya Sawano , Makoto Arimoto , Shota Kisaka , Ryo Yamazaki

A model of jet precession driven by a neutrino-cooled disc around a spinning black hole is present in order to explain the temporal structure and spectral evolution of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). The differential rotation of the outer part of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 Tong Liu , En-Wei Liang , Wei-Min Gu , Xiao-Hong Zhao , Zi-Gao Dai , Ju-Fu Lu

We examine stochastic variability in the dynamics of X-ray emission from the black hole system GRS 1915+105, a strongly variable microquasar commonly used for studying relativistic jets and the physics of black hole accretion. The analysis…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-05-16 Yuriy S. Polyakov , Joseph Neilsen , Serge F. Timashev

As the standard gamma-ray burst (GRB) prompt-emission model, the internal shock (IS) model can reproduce the fast-rise and slow-decay features of the pulses in the GRB light curve. The time- and energy-dependent polarization can deliver…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-24 Mi-Xiang Lan , Hao-Bing Wang , Siyao Xu , Siming Liu , Xue-Feng Wu

We perform three-dimensional radiation-relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (3D Rad-RMHD) simulations of accretion flows around spinning active galactic nuclei (AGNs). Our study focuses on the magnetically arrested disk (MAD) state, adopting a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-13 Ramiz Aktar , Kuo-Chuan Pan , Toru Okuda

Employing 3D GRMHD simulation, we study the images of a geometrically thin jet, whose emissions concentrate on its surface, for accretion system surrounding a central spinning BH. By introducing a strong magnetic field, we observe three…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-28 Ye Shen , Yehui Hou , Zhong-Ying Fan , Minyong Guo , Bin Chen

Although Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) have been detected for many decades, the lack of knowledge regarding the radiation mechanism that produces the energetic flash of radiation, or prompt emission, from these events has prevented the full use…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-23 Tyler Parsotan , Davide Lazzati

Long-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are generally related to the core-collapse of massive stars. In the collapsar scenario, a rotating stellar-mass black hole (BH) surrounded by a hyperaccretion disk has been considered as one of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-10 Mei Du , Shuang-Xi Yi , Tong Liu , Cui-Ying Song , Wei Xie

We perform the first magnetohydrodynamic simulation tracking the magnetosphere of a collapsing magnetar. The collapse is expected for massive rotating magnetars formed in merger events, and may occur many hours after the merger. Our…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-11 Elias R. Most , Andrei M. Beloborodov , Bart Ripperda

A statistical study on the light curves of all the short Gamma-Ray Bursts detected with the Gamma Ray Burst Monitor (GRBM) aboard BeppoSAX is reported. Evidence for a very weak and long duration component associated with these events in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Enrico Montanari , Filippo Frontera , Cristiano Guidorzi , Massimo Rapisarda

We present observations of the early X-ray emission for a sample of 40 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) obtained using the Swift satellite for which the narrow-field instruments were pointed at the burst within 10 minutes of the trigger. Using data…

Many cosmological models of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) assume that a single relativistic shell carries kinetic energy away from the source and later converts it into gamma rays, perhaps by interactions with the interstellar medium or by shocks…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. C. Sumner , E. E. Fenimore

The complete high-resolution lightcurves of Swift GRB 080319B present an opportunity for detailed temporal analysis of the prompt optical emission. With a two-component distribution of initial Lorentz factors, we simulate the dynamical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Si-Yao Xu , Zhuo Li

We present the optical light curve for the gamma-ray blazar PKS 1510-089 with a significant variability of 2.0 mag within about 41 minutes in the R band which is the most violently rapid variability detected in our optical monitoring…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Z. Dai , G. Z. Xie , Z. J. Jiang , D. C. Mei

In this study, we focus on the simulation of accretion processes in Magnetically Arrested Disks (MADs) and investigate the dynamics of plasma during flux eruption events. We employ general relativistic magneto-hydrodynamic (GRMHD)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-28 V. Mpisketzis , G. F. Paraschos , H. Ho-Yin Ng , A. Nathanail

The majority of Swift gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) observed at z > 6 have prompt durations of T90 < 30s, which, at first sight, is surprising given that cosmological time-dilation means this corresponds to < 5s in their rest frames. We have…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 O. M. Littlejohns , N. R. Tanvir , R. Willingale , P. A. Evans , P. T. O'Brien , A. J. Levan

We study the spherical accretion of magnetized plasma with low angular momentum onto a supermassive black hole, utilizing global general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations. Black hole-driven feedback in the form of magnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-10 Alisa Galishnikova , Alexander Philippov , Eliot Quataert , Koushik Chatterjee , Matthew Liska