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We have performed searches for isolated flares and for steady flickering in Gamma Ray Burst light curves on the microsecond to millisecond time scales. Two bursts out of our sample of 20 revealed four isolated flares with time scales from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Katharine C. Walker , Bradley E. Schaefer , E. E. Fenimore

Flares in the X-ray afterglow of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) share more characteristics with the prompt emission than the afterglow, such as pulse profile and contained fluence. As a result, they are believed to originate from late-time…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-06 Sarah L. Gibson , Graham A. Wynn , Benjamin P. Gompertz , Paul T. O'Brien

Jets in long-duration $\gamma$-ray bursts (GRBs) have to drill through the collapsing star in order to break out of it and produce the $\gamma$-ray signal while the central engine is still active. If the breakout time is shorter for more…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-11 Maria Petropoulou , Rodolfo Barniol Duran , Dimitrios Giannios

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are fascinating extragalactic objects. They represent a fantastic opportunity to investigate unique properties not exhibited in other sources. Multi-wavelength afterglow observations from some short- and…

Prompt gamma-ray and early X-ray afterglow emission in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are characterized by a bursty behavior and are often interspersed with long quiescent times. There is compelling evidence that X-ray flares are linked to prompt…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 C. Guidorzi , S. Dichiara , F. Frontera , R. Margutti , A. Baldeschi , L. Amati

The gamma-ray burst's lightcurves have been analyzed using a special wavelet transformation. The applied wavelet base is based on a typical Fast Rise-Exponential Decay (FRED) pulse. The shape of the wavelet coefficients' total distribution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-13 Z. Bagoly , I. Horvath , A. Meszaros , L. G. Balazs

Blazars are the most common sources of $\gamma$-ray photons in the extragalactic sky. Their $\gamma$-ray light curves are characterized by bright flaring episodes, similarly to what is observed at longer wavelengths. These gamma-ray bursts…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-04 Matteo Cerruti

We introduce a simple model to explain the time-reversed and stretched residuals in gamma-ray burst (GRB) pulse light curves. In this model an impactor wave in an expanding GRB jet accelerates from subluminal to superluminal velocities, or…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-02 Jon Hakkila , Robert Nemiroff

A significant fraction of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) exhibit a plateau in the early X-ray afterglow light curve, whose mechanism remains uncertain. While the post-plateau normal decay index ($\alpha_2$) is commonly used to constrain the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-03 Xiao-Fei Dong , Yong-Feng Huang , Chen Deng , Ze-Cheng Zou , Jin-Jun Geng , Fan Xu , Chen-Ran Hu , Orkash Amat , Xiu-Juan Li , Liang Li , Abdusattar Kurban

The gamma-ray burst (GRB) GRB 211211A and GRB 060614, believed to originate from the merger of compact objects, exhibit similarities to the jetted tidal disruption event (TDE) Sw J1644+57, by showing violent variabilities in the light-curve…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-09 Yun-Peng Li , Da-Bin Lin , Guo-Yu Li , Zi-Min Zhou , En-Wei Liang

We study statistical properties of long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) produced by the collapsing cores of WR stars in binary systems. Fast rotation of the cores enables a two-stage collapse scenario, implying the formation of a spinar-like…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-09-28 G. V. Lipunova , E. S. Gorbovskoy , A. I. Bogomazov , V. M. Lipunov

Gamma-ray bursts (GRB) are extremely energetic events and produce highly diverse light curves. Light curves are believed to be resulting from internal shocks reflecting the activities of the GRB central engine. Hence their temporal studies…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-07-30 P. N. Bhat

We investigate long Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRB) which manifest a sharp linear rise followed by an exponential decay in their gamma-ray prompt emission observed with the BAT instrument on board the Swift satellite. We offer a simple…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-17 Ioannis Contopoulos , Achilles Strantzalis , Dimitrios Papadopoulos , Demosthenes Kazanas

The principal paradigm for gamma-ray bursts suggest that the prompt transient gamma-ray signal arises from multiple shocks internal to the relativistic expansion. This paper illustrates some properties of diffusive acceleration at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Matthew G. Baring

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

In order to obtain an overview of the gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), we need a full sample. In this paper, we collected 6289 GRBs (from GRB 910421 to GRB 160509A) from the literature, including prompt emission, afterglow and host galaxy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-13 Feifei Wang , Yuan-Chuan Zou , Fuxiang Liu , Bin Liao , Yu Liu , Yating Chai , Lei Xia

A variety of arguments suggest that the most common form of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), those longer than a few seconds, involve the formation of black holes in supernova-like events. Two kinds of ``collapsar'' models are discussed, those in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. E. Woosley

The spectral evolution characteristics of the prompt emission in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have been extensively studied, but detailed investigations of spectral evolution in a GRB flare remain lacking. In this work, we present the first…

The transient emission produced behind internal shocks that are driven by overtaking collisions of a magnetized, relativistic outflow is considered. A self-consistent model capable of describing the structure and dynamics of the shocks and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Amir Levinson

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are a mixed class of sources consisting of, at least, the long duration and short-hard subclasses, the X-ray flashes, and the low-luminosity GRBs. In all cases, the release of enormous amounts of energy on a short…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-09-24 Charles D. Dermer , Chris L. Fryer
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