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We study the precession of accretion disks in the context of gamma-ray burst inner engines. With an accretion disk model that allows for neutrino cooling, we evaluate the possible periods of disk precession and nutation due to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Matias M. Reynoso , Gustavo E. Romero , Oscar A. Sampayo

Evidence for the central engine of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) has been collected in the Neil Gehrels \emph{Swift} data. For instance, some GRBs show an internal X-ray plateau followed by very steep decay, which is difficult to be interpreted…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-17 Litao Zhao , Liangduan Liu , He Gao , Lin Lan , WeiHua Lei , Wei Xie

A newly born millisecond magnetar is thought to be the central engine of some gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), especially those that present long-lasting X-ray plateau emissions. By solving the field equations, we find that when the rotational…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-11 Lin Lan , He Gao , Shunke Ai , Shao-Ze Li

Neutrino-cooled accretion flow around a black hole, produced by a compact binary merger, is a promising scenario for jet formation and magnetic-driven winds to explain short duration gamma ray bursts (GRBs) central engine and kilonovae…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-06 Fatemeh Hossein Nouri , Agnieszka Janiuk

We prescribe a method to study the effects of self-gravity of accretion disk around a black hole associated with long Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) in an evolving background Kerr metric. This is an extension to our previous work where we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-02 Ishika Palit , Agnieszka Janiuk , Petra Sukova

We compute the average luminosity of X-ray flares as a function of time, for a sample of 10 long-duration gamma-ray burst afterglows. The mean luminosity, averaged over a timescale longer than the duration of the individual flares, declines…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Davide Lazzati , Rosalba Perna , Mitchell C. Begelman

The physical nature of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are believed to involve an ultra-relativistic jet. The observed complex structure of light curves motivate the idea of jet precession. In this work, we study the gravitational waves of jet…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Mou-Yuan Sun , Tong Liu , Wei-Min Gu , Ju-Fu Lu

I present the elements of accretion-disc physics applied to active galactic nuclei. The accretion driving mechanisms are discussed, then models of geometrically-thin discs, both stationary and time-dependent, are addressed. Disc's…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-23 Jean-Pierre Lasota

We consider the properties of a hyperaccretion model for gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) at the late time when the mass supply rate is expected to decrease with time. We point out that the region in the vicinity of the accretor and the accretor…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Daniel Proga , Bing Zhang

Accretion disks in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are predicted to become gravitationally unstable substantially interior to the black hole's sphere of influence, at radii where the disk is simultaneously unstable to the magnetorotational…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-30 Tsun Hin Navin Tsung , Mitchell C. Begelman , Philip J. Armitage , Yan-Fei Jiang , Hannalore J. Gerling-Dunsmore

Rapidly spinning, strongly magnetized proto-neutron stars ("millisecond proto-magnetars") are candidate central engines of long-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRB), superluminous supernovae (SLSNe), and binary neutron star mergers. Magnetar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-02 Brian D. Metzger , Paz Beniamini , Dimitrios Giannios

We present the effects of the vertical convection on the structure and luminosity of the neutrino-dominated accretion flow (NDAF) around a stellar-mass black hole in spherical coordinates. We found that the convective energy transfer can…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Tong Liu , Wei-Min Gu , Norita Kawanaka , Ang Li

Magnetic field may distort neutron stars (NSs), but its effect has not been robustly tested through gravitational-wave observation yet due to the absence of a fast rotating Galactic magnetar. Part of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are potential to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-19 Tingting Lin , Shuang Du , Weihua Wang , Shujin Hou , Renxin Xu

Millisecond magnetars, one of the potential candidates for the central engine of Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), can experience significant magnetic field enhancement shortly after their formation. In some cases, this evolution is further…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-12 Nissim Fraija , Cristian Giovanni Bernal , Antonio Galván , Boris Betancourt-Kamenetskaia , Maria Giovanna Dainotti

The collapse of massive rotating stellar cores and the associated accretion onto the newborn compact object is thought to power long gamma ray bursts (GRBs). The physical scale and dynamics of the accretion disk are initially set by the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Aldo Batta , William H. Lee

The central engine that drives gamma ray burst (GRB) explosions may derive from the ability of electrons/positrons and nucleons to tap into the momentum and energy from the large neutrino luminosity emitted by an accretion disk surrounding…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-15 J. P. Kneller , G. C. McLaughlin , R. Surman

We investigate the stability of a neutrino-dominated accretion flow (NDAF), which is expected to be formed in the gravitational collapse of a massive star or the merger of a neutron star binary, based on the variable-$\alpha$ prescription.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-04 Norita Kawanaka , Youhei Masada

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are believed to be powered by the electromagnetic extraction of spin energy from a black hole endowed with a magnetic field supported by electric currents in a surrounding disk (Blandford & Znajek 1977). A generic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-16 Antonios Nathanail , Achillies Strantzalis , Ioannis Contopoulos

We calculate the nuclear composition of matter in accretion disks surrounding stellar mass black holes as are thought to accompany gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). We follow a mass element in the accretion disk starting at the point of nuclear…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Surman , G. C. McLaughlin

It was suggested that the relativistic jets in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are powered via the Blandford-Znajek (BZ) mechanism or the annihilation of neutrinos and anti-neutrinos from a neutrino cooling-dominated accretion flow (NDAF). The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Xinwu Cao , En-Wei Liang , Ye-Fei Yuan