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The collapsar model was proposed to explain the long-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), while the short GRBs are associated with the mergers of compact objects. In the first case, mainly the energetics of the events is consistent with the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-10 Agnieszka Janiuk , Kostas Sapountzis

The power of blazar jets rivals the power that gravity can extract from accreting matter. The mechanism launching and accelerating jets can be considered as the most efficient engine operating in radio--loud sources. It is still a matter of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Ghisellini

We consider a jet-disk symbiosis model to explain Gamma Ray Bursts and their afterglows. It is proposed that GRBs develop in a pre-existing jet. We consider a binary system formed by a neutron star and an O/B/WR companion in which the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Giovanna Pugliese , Heino Falcke , Peter L. Biermann

A hyperaccreting stellar-mass black hole has been proposed as the candidate central engine of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). The rich observations of GRBs by \textit{Fermi} and \textit{Swift} make it possible to constrain the central engine model…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-08 Wei-Hua Lei , Bing Zhang , Xue-Feng Wu , En-Wei Liang

The long-term variability study over a range of black hole (BH) mass systems from the microquasars of stellar-mass black holes to the Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) of supermassive black holes, in $\gamma$-rays offers new insights into the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-10 Ajay Sharma , Raj Prince , Debanjan Bose

A simple look at the steady high-energy Universe reveals a clear correlation with outflows generated around compact objects (winds and jets). In the case of relativistic jets, they are thought to be produced as a consequence of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-12-03 Manel Perucho

Observations of gamma-ray-bursts and jets from active galactic nuclei reveal that the jet flow is characterized by a high radiative efficiency and that the dissipative mechanism must be a powerful accelerator of non-thermal particles.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Lorenzo Sironi , Maria Petropoulou , Dimitrios Giannios

We review the physics of GRB production by relativistic jets that start highly opaque near the central source and then expand to transparency. We discuss dissipative and radiative processes in the jet and how radiative transfer shapes the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-05 A. M. Beloborodov , P. Mészáros

We present a new way of looking at the very long term evolution of GRBs in which the disk of material surrounding the putative black hole powering the GRB jet modulates the mass flow, and hence the efficacy of the process that extracts…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-07-22 J. K. Cannizzo , N. Gehrels

Relativistic jets from accreting supermassive black holes at cosmological distances can be powerful emitters of $\gamma$-rays. However, the precise mechanisms and locations responsible for the dissipation of energy within these jets,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-03 Sushmita Agarwal , Amit Shukla , Karl Mannheim , Bhargav Vaidya , Biswajit Banerjee

The accretion disks of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) harboring in active galactic nuclei (AGN) are considered to be an ideal site for producing different types of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). The detectability of these GRB phenomena hidden…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-18 Hao-Hui Zhang , Jin-Ping Zhu , Yun-Wei Yu

With their jet pointing towards us, blazars are ideal tools to study the physics and structure of extragalactic jets. Their powerful jets are cosmic particle accelerators and are alleged to be one of the production sites of the high-energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-25 Claudia M. Raiteri

Relativistic jets, or highly collimated and fast-moving outflows, are endemic to many astrophysical phenomena. The jets produced by gamma-ray bursts and tidal disruption events are accompanied by the accretion of material onto a black hole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-07 Eric R. Coughlin , Mitchell C. Begelman

Quasars with flat radio spectra and one-sided, arc-second scale, ~100 mJy GHz radio jets are found to have similar scale X-ray jets in about 60% of such objects, even in short 5 to 10 ks Chandra observations. Jets emit in the GHz band via…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-04 Daniel A. Schwartz

We consider the explosion of supernovae and the possible production of a variety of high energy transients by delayed black hole formation in massive stars endowed with rotation. Following the launch of a ``successful'' shock by the usual…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 A. I. MacFadyen , S. E. Woosley , A. Heger

Jet origination is one of the most important questions of AGN, yet it stays obscure. In this work, we made use of information of emission lines, spectral energy distributions (SEDs), \textit{Fermi}-LAT $\gamma$-ray emission, construct a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-02 Hubing Xiao , Zhihao OuYang , Lixia Zhang , Liping Fu , Shaohua Zhang , Xiangtao Zeng , Junhui Fan

Stellar-mass black holes with relativistic jets, also known as microquasars, mimic the behavior of quasars and active galactic nuclei. Because timescales around stellar-mass black holes are orders of magnitude smaller than those around more…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-03-26 Joseph Neilsen , Julia C. Lee

Blazars and Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) are the fastest objects known so far. The radiation we see from these sources originates in a jet of similar aperture angle, and we think it is the result of the conversion of some of the jet kinetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-19 G. Ghisellini

A central compact object (CCO, e.g. a black hole) with an accretion disk has been suggested as the common central engine of various astrophysical phenomena, such as gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), tidal disruption events (TDEs) and active galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-07 Mi-Xiang Lan , Rui Xue , Dingrong Xiong , Wei-Hua Lei , Xue-Feng Wu , Zi-Gao Dai

We present a suite of the first 3D GRMHD collapsar simulations, which extend from the self-consistent jet launching by an accreting Kerr black hole (BH) to the breakout from the star. We identify three types of outflows, depending on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-12 Ore Gottlieb , Aretaios Lalakos , Omer Bromberg , Matthew Liska , Alexander Tchekhovskoy