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GW170817 remains the only binary neutron star merger detected through multimessenger emission. Its afterglow has been monitored for nearly a decade, offering an unprecedented opportunity to probe the properties of the outflow. The shallow…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-14 Hao Wang , Ore Gottlieb , Aman Katira , Muskan Yadav , Lei Lei , Yi-Zhong Fan , Da-Ming Wei

The origin of the X-ray emission from neutron star coalescence GW170817/GRB170817A is a key diagnostic of the unsettled post-merger narrative, and different scenarios predict distinct evolution in its X-ray light curve. Due to its sky…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-31 John J. Ruan , Melania Nynka , Daryl Haggard , Vicky Kalogera , Phil Evans

The nearest GRB 170817A provided an opportunity to probe the angular structure of the jet of this short gamma-ray burst (SGRB), by using its off-axis observed afterglow emission. It is investigated that whether the afterglow-constrained jet…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-27 Xiao-Feng Cao , Wei-Wei Tan , Yun-Wei Yu , Zhen-Dong Zhang

Gamma-Ray Burst GRB 241030A (z = 1.411) exhibited a bright afterglow (similar to GRB 221009A), detected across gamma-ray, X-ray, UV, and optical bands, providing a probe of GRB afterglow physics. We compiled multi-wavelength observations…

The nearby GRB 060216/SN 2006aj was an extremely long, weak and very soft GRB. It was peculiar in many aspects. We show here that the X-ray, ultraviolet/optical and radio afterglow of GRB 060218 have to be attributed to different physical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yi-Zhong Fan , Tsvi Piran , Dong Xu

X-ray emission from the gravitational wave transient GW170817 is well described as non-thermal afterglow radiation produced by a structured relativistic jet viewed off-axis. We show that the X-ray counterpart continues to be detected at 3.3…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-15 E. Troja , B. O'Connor , G. Ryan , L. Piro , R. Ricci , B. Zhang , T. Piran , G. Bruni , S. B. Cenko , H. van Eerten

In recent years, afterglow emission in the very-high-energy (VHE) band above 100 GeV has been clearly detected for at least five gamma-ray bursts (GRBs 180720B, 190114C, 190829A, 201216C and 221009A). For some of these VHE GRBs, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-27 Yuri Sato , Kohta Murase , Yutaka Ohira , Susumu Inoue , Ryo Yamazaki

Recent observational and theoretical studies have raised the possibility that the collimated outflows in gamma-ray burst (GRB) sources have two distinct components: a narrow (opening half-angle $\theta_{\rm n}$), highly relativistic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Fang Peng , Arieh Konigl , Jonathan Granot

Gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglows are likely produced in the shock that is driven as the GRB jet interacts with the external medium. Long-duration GRBs are also associated with powerful supernovae (SNe). We consider the optical and radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-08 Adithan Kathirgamaraju , Rodolfo Barniol Duran , Dimitrios Giannios

A number of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) exhibit the late simultaneous bumps in their optical and Xray afterglows around the jet break. Its origin is unclear. Based on the following two facts, we suggest that this feature may sound a transition…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-24 Xiao-Yan Li , Da-Bin Lin , Jia Ren , Shu-Jin Hou , Yu-Fei Li , Xiang-Gao Wang , En-Wei Liang

The counter jet of a short gamma-ray burst (sGRB) has not yet been observed, while recent discoveries of gravitational waves (GWs) from a binary neutron star (NS) merger GW170817 and the associated sGRB 170817A have demonstrated that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-28 Ryo Yamazaki , Kunihito Ioka , Takashi Nakamura

Some gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) exhibit precursor emission episodes preceding the main emission, with a quiescent period in between. The properties of the precursor emission and the duration of the quiescent interval are related to the central…

GRB 160821B is a short duration gamma-ray burst (GRB) detected and localized by the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory in the outskirts of a spiral galaxy at z=0.1613, at a projected physical offset of 16 kpc from the galaxy's center. We…

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) associated with gravitational wave events are, and will likely continue to be, viewed at a larger inclination than GRBs without gravitational wave detections. As demonstrated by the afterglow of GW170817, this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-01 Geoffrey Ryan , Hendrik van Eerten , Luigi Piro , Eleonora Troja

We present a comprehensive temporal and spectral analysis of the long-duration gamma-ray burst GRB 110801A, utilizing multi-band data from the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory and ground-based telescopes. The $\gamma$-ray emission exhibits a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-07 Qiu-Li Wang , Hao Zhou , Yun Wang , Jia Ren , Zhi-Ping Jin , Da-Ming Wei

The short-duration ($\lesssim2\;$s) GRB 170817A in the nearby ($D=40\;$Mpc) elliptical galaxy NGC 4993 is the first electromagnetic counterpart of the first gravitational wave (GW) detection of a binary neutron-star (NS-NS) merger. It was…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-05 Jonathan Granot , Ramandeep Gill , Dafne Guetta , Fabio De Colle

We calculate light-curves for Gamma-Ray Burst afterglows when material ejected in the explosion is confined to a jet which propagates in a medium with a power-law density profile. The observed light-curve decay steepens by a factor of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Pawan Kumar , Alin Panaitescu

Recently, X-ray emission lines have been observed in X-ray afterglows of several $\gamma$-ray bursts. It is a major breakthrough for understanding the nature of the progenitors. It is proposed that the X-ray emission lines can be well…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 W. H. Gao , D. M. Wei

We investigate the dynamical evolution of double-sided jets and present detailed numerical studies on the emission from the receding jet of gamma-ray bursts. It is found that the receding jet emission is generally very weak and only…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-12-03 Xin Wang , Y. F. Huang