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Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are extremely bright phenomena powered by relativistic jets arising from explosive events at cosmological distances. The nature of the jet and the configuration of the local magnetic fields are still unclear, with…

We carry out a systematical study of the spectral lag properties of 50 single-pulsed Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) detected by Fermi/GBM. By dividing the light curves into multiple consecutive energy channels we provide a new measurement of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-09 Lang Shao , Bin-Bin Zhang , Fu-Ri Wang , Xue-Feng Wu , Ye-Hao Cheng , Xi Zhang , Bang-Yao Yu , Bao-Jia Xi , Xue Wang , Huan-Xue Feng , Meng Zhang , Dong Xu

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are transient radio bursts of extragalactic origin characterized by millisecond durations and high luminosities. We report on observations of FRB 20240114A conducted with the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope…

Long gamma ray bursts (GRBs) are produced by the collapse of some very massive stars, which emit ultra-relativistic jets. When the jets collide with the interstellar medium they decelerate and generate the so-called afterglow emission,…

In gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), the electron pitch angle ($\alpha$) is usually assumed to be isotropically distributed. However, recent numerical simulations indicate that only the high-energy electrons (with Lorentz factors…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-27 Kang-Fa Cheng , Kai-Xian Luo , Xiao-Hong Zhao , Jirong Mao , Hong-Bang Liu , Yu-Hang Mo , Jin-Rong Huang , Rong-Li Weng , Wen-Jie Xie , Gao-Jin Yu

Using the data acquired in the Time To Spill (TTS) mode for long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) collected by the Burst and Transient Source Experiment on board the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (BATSE/CGRO), we have carefully measured spectral…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 L. Chen , Y. Q. Lou , M. Wu , J. L. Qu , S. M. Jia , X. J. Yang

We constrain the distance of the Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) prompt emission site from the explosion centre, R, by determining the location of the electron's self absorption frequency in the GRB prompt optical-to-X/gamma-ray spectral energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-03-11 Rong-Feng Shen , Bing Zhang

Modeling of gamma-ray burst (GRB) prompt emission spectra sometimes requires a (quasi-) thermal spectral component in addition to the Band function. In photospheric emission models, a prominent thermal component broadened by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-30 Ramandeep Gill , Jonathan Granot , Paz Beniamini

To constrain the giant pulse (GP) emission mechanism and test the model of Lyutikov (2007) of GP emission, we are carrying out a campaign of simultaneous observations of the Crab pulsar between gamma-rays (Fermi) and radio wavelengths. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-01-08 A. V. Bilous , V. I. Kondratiev , M. A. McLaughlin , M. Mickaliger , D. R. Lorimer , S. M. Ransom , M. Lyutikov , B. Stappers , G. I. Langston

We report the polarization measurement in prompt $\gamma$-ray emission of GRB 100826A with the Gamma-Ray Burst Polarimeter (GAP) aboard the small solar power sail demonstrator IKAROS. We detected the firm change of polarization angle (PA)…

The supporting instrument on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) is a wide-field gamma-ray monitor composed of 14 individual scintillation detectors, with a field of view which encompasses the entire…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Gerard Fitzpatrick , Sheila McBreen , Valerie Connaughton , Michael Briggs , the GBM Team

The composition and radiation mechanism of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) within jets continue to be hotly debated. Investigating the joint polarimetric and spectral properties is crucial for understanding GRB composition and radiation mechanism.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-31 Liang Li , Soroush Shakeri

We explore the properties of photospheric emission in the context of long gamma-ray bursts (LGRBs) using three numerical models that combine relativistic hydrodynamical simulations and Monte Carlo radiation transfer calculations in three…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-20 Hirotaka Ito , Jin Matsumoto , Shigehiro Nagataki , Donald C. Warren , Maxim V. Barkov , Daisuke Yonetoku

Previous studies have considered synchrotron as the emission mechanism for prompt Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs). These works have shown that the electrons must cool on a timescale comparable to the dynamic time at the source in order to satisfy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-28 Paz Beniamini , Rodolfo Barniol Duran , Dimitrios Giannios

We present a catalog of early-time (~10^2-10^4s) photometry and polarimetry of all Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) optical afterglows observed with RINGO2 imaging polarimeter on the Liverpool Telescope. For the 19 optical afterglows observed, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-02 I. A. Steele , D. Kopac , D. M. Arnold , R. J. Smith , S. Kobayashi , H. E. Jermak , C. G. Mundell , A. Gomboc , C. Guidorzi , A. Melandri , J. Japelj

Cadmium Zinc Telluride Imager (CZTI) aboard AstroSat has been regularly detecting Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) since its launch in 2015. Its sensitivity to polarization measurements at energies above 100 keV allows CZTI to attempt…

The recent simultaneous detection of optical, X-ray and gamma-ray photons from GRB990123 during the burst provides the first broadband multi-wavelength characterization of the burst spectrum and evolution. Here we show that a direct…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. P. Liang , A. Crider , M. Boettcher , I. A. Smith

The observational diversity of optical emission, which coincides with prompt gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), has been discovered in the recent Swift era. We show that on the assumption of the synchrotron radiation for the observed energy range…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hirotsugu Doi , Kentaro Takami , Ryo Yamazaki

We describe our attempt to determine if gamma-ray burst (GRB) and afterglow emissions could both arise in external shocks for simple GRBs--bursts consisting of just a few peaks in their lightcurves. We calculate peak flux and peak frequency…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 E. McMahon , P. Kumar , A. Panaitescu

The observations of the prompt emission of gamma ray bursts (GRB) by GLAST Burst Monitor (GBM), on board Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, suggest the presence of a significant thermal spectral component, whose origin is not well understood.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-29 Priya Bharali , Sunder Sahayanathan , Ranjeev Misra , Kalyanee Boruah