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The recent discovery of a faint gamma-ray burst (GRB) coincident with the gravitational wave (GW) event GW 170817 revealed the existence of a population of low-luminosity short duration gamma-ray transients produced by neutron star mergers…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-21 E. Troja , G. Ryan , L. Piro , H. van Eerten , S. B. Cenko , Y. Yoon , S. -K. Lee , M. Im , T. Sakamoto , P. Gatkine , A. Kutyrev , S. Veilleux

We present a novel fully Bayesian analysis to constrain short gamma-ray burst jet structures associated with cocoon, wide-angle and simple top-hat jet models, as well as the binary neutron star merger rate. These constraints are made given…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-12 Fergus Hayes , Ik Siong Heng , Gavin Lamb , En-Tzu Lin , John Veitch , Michael J. Williams

The observations of GW170817/GRB170817A have confirmed that the coalescence of a neutron-star binary is the progenitor of a short gamma-ray burst. In the standard picture of a short gamma-ray burst, a collimated highly relativistic outflow…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-03 Antonios Nathanail , Ramandeep Gill , Oliver Porth , Christian M. Fromm , Luciano Rezzolla

The afterglow of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) has been extensively discussed in the context of shocks generated during an interaction of relativistic outflows with their ambient medium. This process leads to the formation of both a forward and a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-22 Sen-Lin Pang , Zi-Gao Dai

The optical light curve of the energetic gamma-ray burst GRB 991216 is consistent with jet-like behavior in which a power-law decay steepens from t**(-1.22 +/- 0.04) at early times to t**(-1.53 +/- 0.05) in a gradual transition at around 2…

There exists an inevitable scatter in intrinsic luminosity of Gamma Ray Bursts(GRBs). If there is relativistic beaming in the source, viewing angle variation necessarily introduces variation in the intrinsic luminosity function(ILF).…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-23 Shreya Banerjee , David Eichler , Dafne Guetta

The unusual multiwavelength lightcurves of GRB 101225A are revisited by assuming that it is from an off-axis GRB powered by a newborn magnetar. We show that its optical afterglow lightcurve is fitted with the forward shock model by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-20 Le Zou , Tian-Ci Zheng , Xing Yang , Hai-ming Zhang , Xiao-Yan Li , Jia Ren , Da-Bin Lin , En-Wei Liang

The early afterglow of a Gamma-ray burst (GRB) can provide critical information on the jet and progenitor of the GRB. The extreme brightness of GRB 221009A allows us to probe its early afterglow in unprecedented detail. In this letter, we…

Gamma-ray bursts detected at high energies provide valuable insights into the emission mechanisms behind these still puzzling enigmatic events. In this study, we focus on GRB 090510, which is an unusual short GRB exhibiting plateau emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-07 Joseph Saji , Agnieszka Janiuk , Maria Giovanna Dainotti , Shubham Bhardwaj , Gerardo Urrutia

The empirical classification of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) is based on their distribution in the plane of burst duration and spectral hardness. Two distinct distributions, long-soft and short-hard bursts, are observed in this plane, forming…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-15 Sreelakshmi P Chakyar , Sarath Prabhavu J , Lekshmi Resmi

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are among the most powerful explosive events in the universe. LHAASO recently observed the most luminous one: GRB 221009A, and unveiled its TeV light curve. The light curve exhibits a distinct jet break at around 670…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-03 Lin Zhou , Yuan-Chuan Zou

The prompt emission of short gamma ray bursts (sGRBs) with known redshifts are analyzed using the model of multi-color blackbody which is interpreted as the emission from a non-dissipative photosphere taking into account a power law jet…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-18 Shabnam Iyyani , Vidushi Sharma

The afterglow of a gamma-ray burst (GRB) has been widely argued to arise from the interaction of a relativistic outflow with its ambient medium. During such an interaction, a pair of shocks are generated: a forward shock that propagates…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-28 Sen-Lin Pang , Zi-Gao Dai

The short GRB 170817A associated to the first detection of gravitation waves from a Binary Neutron Star (BNS) merger was in many ways unusual. Possible explanations are emission from a cocoon or cocoon break out, off-axis view of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-22 Houri Ziaeepour

We constrain the isotropic luminosity function (LF) and formation rate of long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) by fitting models 'jointly' to both the observed differential peak flux and redshift distributions. We find evidence supporting an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Firmani , V. Avila-Reese , G. Ghisellini , A. V. Tutukov

It is generally supposed that a transition from the normal decay phase (decay slope $\sim -1$) to a steeper phase (decay slope $\sim -2$) could be suggested as a jet break. The jet opening angle $\theta_{\rm jet}$ is then calculated from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-09 Wen Zhao , Jia-Chang Zhang , Qing-Xiang Zhang , Jian-Tong Liang , Xiao-Hang Luan , Qi-Qi Zhou , Shuang-Xi Yi , Fei-Fei Wang , Shao-Tong Zhang

Gamma-ray bursts observed in high-energies allow the investigation of the emission processes of these still puzzling events. In this study, we perform general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations to investigate GRB 090510, a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-13 Joseph Saji , Maria Giovanna Dainotti , Shubham Bhardwaj , Agnieszka Janiuk

We present a general method for testing gamma-ray burst (GRB) jet structure and carry out a comprehensive analysis about the prevalent jet structure models. According to the jet angular energy distribution, we can not only derive the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Xu , X. F. Wu , Z. G. Dai

Motivated by the many associations of $\gamma$-ray bursts (GRBs) with energetic supernova (SN) explosions, we study the propagation of relativistic jets within the progenitor star in which a SN shock wave may be launched briefly before the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-06 Miguel-Ángel Aloy , Carlos F. Cuesta-Martínez , M. Obergaulinger

We present our observations of electromagnetic transients associated with GW170817/GRB 170817A using optical telescopes of Chilescope observatory and Big Scanning Antenna (BSA) of Pushchino Radio Astronomy Observatory at 110MHz. The…