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Long duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are among the least understood astrophysical transients powering the high-energy universe. To date, various mechanisms have been proposed to explain the observed electromagnetic GRB emission. In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-26 Tetyana Pitik , Irene Tamborra , Maria Petropoulou

The possibility that long gamma-ray burst (GRB) jets are structured receives growing attention recently, and we have suggested that most GRBs and their softer, less energetic fraternity, X-ray flashes (XRFs), can be understood within a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Xinyu Dai , Bing Zhang

In high-intensity (> 10^21W/cm^2) laser-matter interactions gamma-ray photon emission by the electrons can strongly affect the electron's dynamics and copious numbers of electron-positron pairs can be produced by the emitted photons. We…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-11-25 C. P. Ridgers , J. G. Kirk , R. Duclous , T. Blackburn , C. S. Brady , K. Bennett , T. D. Arber , A. R. Bell

Many different physical processes have been suggested to explain the prompt gamma-ray emission in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Although there are examples of both bursts with photospheric and synchrotron emission origins, these distinct…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-07 Zeynep Acuner , Felix Ryde

The beaming pattern of radiation emitted by a relativistically moving source like jets in microquasars, AGN and GRBs, is a key issue for understanding of acceleration and radiation processes in these objects. In this paper we introduce a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-30 S. R. Kelner , E. Lefa , F. M. Rieger , F. A. Aharonian

The first gravitational-wave event from the merger of a binary neutron star system (GW170817) was detected recently. The associated short gamma-ray burst (GRB 170817A) has a low isotropic luminosity ($\sim 10^{47}$ erg s$ ^{-1}$) and a peak…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-19 Yan-Zhi Meng , Jin-Jun Geng , Bin-Bin Zhang , Jun-Jie Wei , Di Xiao , Liang-Duan Liu , He Gao , Xue-Feng Wu , En-Wei Liang , Yong-Feng Huang , Zi-Gao Dai , Bing Zhang

We explore the multiwavelength radiation properties of the light curves and energy spectra in the dissipative magnetospheres of pulsars. The dissipative magnetospheres are simulated by the pseudo-spectral method with the combined force-free…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-12 Xiongbang Yang , Gang Cao

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are known to be highly collimated events, and are mostly detectable when they are seen on-axis or very nearly on-axis. However, GRBs can be seen from off-axis angles, and the recent detection of a short GRB…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-03 Ruben Farinelli , Rupal Basak , Lorenzo Amati , Cristiano Guidorzi , Filippo Frontera

Long-lasting emission of short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is crucial to reveal the physical origin of the central engine as well as to detect electromagnetic (EM) counterparts to gravitational waves (GWs) from neutron star binary mergers. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-20 Shota Kisaka , Kunihito Ioka , Takanori Sakamoto

Direct multi-dimensional numerical simulation is the most reliable approach for calculating the fluid dynamics and observational signatures of relativistic jets in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). We present a two-dimensional relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-05-29 Weiqun Zhang , Andrew MacFadyen

The Fermi satellite has been reporting the detailed temporal properties of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) in an extremely broad spectral range, 8 keV - 300 GeV, in particular, the unexpected delays of the GeV emission onsets behind the MeV…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-12-18 Kenji Toma , Xue-Feng Wu , Peter Meszaros

It is demonstrated here that if the prompt GRB emission is produced by the simplest version of the external shock model, a specific relation should prevail between the observed duration, isotropic equivalent energy, and photon peak energy.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz , Jonathan Granot

High-energy neutrinos are expected to originate from different stages in a gamma-ray burst (GRB) event. In this work we revisit the dissipative photospheric scenario, in which the GRB prompt emission is produced around the photospheric…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-05 Di Xiao , Zi-Gao Dai , Peter Meszaros

(abridged) We present a new time-dependent multi-zone radiative transfer code and its application to study the SSC emission of Mrk 421. The code couples Fokker-Planck and Monte Carlo methods, in a 2D geometry. For the first time all the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-09-22 Xuhui Chen , Giovanni Fossati , Edison Liang , Markus Boettcher

We present a powerful new tool for fitting broadband gamma-ray burst afterglow data, which can be used to determine the burst explosion parameters and the synchrotron radiation parameters. By making use of scale invariance between…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 H. J. van Eerten , A. J. van der Horst , A. I. MacFadyen

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

Propagation of photons in relativistically expanding plasma outflows, characterized by steady Lorentz factor Gamma is considered. Photons that are injected in regions of high optical depth are advected with the flow until they escape at the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Asaf Pe'er

Understanding the origin and diversity of emission processes responsible for Gamma-ray Bursts (GRBs) remains a pressing challenge. While prompt and contemporaneous panchromatic observations have the potential to test predictions of the…

The plateau in the duration distribution of long Gamma-Ray Bursts (LGRBs) provides a direct observational evidence for the Collapsar model. The plateau reflects the fact that the observed duration satisfies: $T_{90} = t_{e}-t_{b}$ where…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-11 Reetanjali Moharana , Tsvi Piran

We present a systematic study of the steep decay emission from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) observed by the Swift X-Ray Telescope (XRT). In contrast to the analysis described in recent literature, we produce composite Burst Alert Telescope (BAT)…