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As progenitors of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), core collapse of massive stars and coalescence of compact object binaries are believed to be powerful sources of gravitational waves (GWs). In the collapsar scenario, a rotating stellar-mass black…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-12 Yun-Feng Wei , Tong Liu

Neutrino-dominated accretion flows (NDAFs) around rotating stellar-mass black holes (BHs) have been theorized as the central engine of relativistic jets launched in massive star core collapse events or compact star mergers. In this work, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-29 Tong Liu , Bing Zhang , Ye Li , Ren-Yi Ma , Li Xue

Fallback in core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) plays an important role in determining the properties of the central compact remnants, which might produce a black hole (BH) hyperaccretion system in the centre of a massive CCSN. When the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-10 Yun-Feng Wei , Tong Liu , Li Xue

Neutrino-dominated accretion flows (NDAFs) around rotating stellar-mass black holes (BHs) are plausible candidates for the central engines of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). NDAFs are hyperaccretion disks with accretion rates in the range of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-15 Tong Liu , Wei-Min Gu , Bing Zhang

Stellar-mass black holes (BHs) surrounded by neutrino-dominated accretion flows (NDAFs) are a leading central engine of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). In this work, we investigate the electron fraction distribution in NDAFs with or without disk…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-30 Rui-Qi Cui , Tong Liu

Long-duration gamma-ray bursts (LGRBs) are generally considered to originate from the massive collapsars. It is believed that the central engine of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is a neutrino-dominated accretion flow (NDAF) around a rotating…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-09 Cui-Ying Song , Tong Liu , Wei-Min Gu , Jian-Xiang Tian

A neutrino-dominated accretion disk around a stellar-mass black hole (BH) can power a gamma-ray burst (GRB) via annihilation of neutrinos launched from the disk. For the BH hyperaccretion system, high accretion rate should trigger the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-29 Cui-Ying Song , Tong Liu , Wei-Min Gu , Shu-Jin Hou , Jian-Xiang Tian , Ju-Fu Lu

Stellar-mass black holes (BHs) surrounded by neutrino-dominated accretion flows (NDAFs) are the plausible candidates to power gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) via neutrinos emission and their annihilation. The progenitors of short-duration GRBs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Tong Liu , Yi-Qing Lin , Shu-Jin Hou , Wei-Min Gu

We explore low angular momentum accretion flows onto black holes formed after the collapse of massive stellar cores. In particular, we consider the state of the gas falling quasi-spherically onto stellar-mass black holes in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 William H. Lee , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

We study the physics behind the neutrino-driven mechanism for gamma-ray bursts and hypernovae, deriving the critical density at which these outbursts occur in the collapsar model. The agreement between this derivation and results from past…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Chris L. Fryer , Peter Meszaros

A stellar-mass black hole (BH) surrounded by a neutrino-dominated accretion flow (NDAF) is generally considered to be the central engine of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Neutrinos escaping from the disk will annihilate out of the disk to produce…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-10 Xiao-Yan Li , Tong Liu , Bao-Quan Huang , Guo-Yu Li , Da-Bin Lin , Zhi-Lin Chen , Yun Wang

A population of binary stellar-mass black hole (BBH) mergers are believed to occur embedded in the accretion disk of active galactic nuclei (AGNs). In this {\em Letter}, we demonstrate that the jets from these BBH mergers can propagate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-21 Jin-Ping Zhu

The neutrino-dominated accretion flow (NDAF) with accretion rates \dot{M} = 0.01 - 10 M_{\sun} s^{-1} is a plausible candidate for the central engine of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). This hyperaccretion disk is optically thin to neutrinos in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Shu Luo , Feng Yuan

We study the cosmic MeV neutrino background from accretion disks formed during collapsars and the coalescence of compact-object mergers. We provide updated estimates, including detection rates, of relic neutrinos from collapsars, as well as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 T. S. H. Schilbach , O. L. Caballero , G. C. McLaughlin

Collapsars -- massive stars whose cores promptly collapse into black holes (BHs) -- can power long-duration gamma-ray bursts (LGRBs) via relativistic, collimated, electromagnetically-driven outflows, or jets. Their power depends on the BH…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-24 Danat Issa , Beverly Lowell , Jonatan Jacquemin-Ide , Matthew Liska , Alexander Tchekhovskoy

The stellar-mass black hole surrounded by the neutrino-dominated accretion flow (NDAF) is proposed to be the central engine of the gamma-ray burst (GRB). In this work, we investigate the neutrino/anti-neutrino luminosity and annihilation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-31 Chitipat Deesamer , Poemwai Chainakun , Warintorn Sreethawong

A variety of stellar explosions powered by black hole accretion are discussed. All involve the failure of neutrino energy deposition to launch a strong supernova explosion. A key quantity which determines the type of high energy transient…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Andrew MacFadyen

We investigate the physical properties of the central engine powering gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), modelled as a stellar-mass black hole accreting via a neutrino-dominated accretion flow (NDAF). By solving the governing hydrodynamic equations,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-04 Amit Kumar , Sayan Chakrabarti , Santabrata Das

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are classified into long and short populations (i.e., LGRBs and SGRBs) based on the observed bimodal distribution of duration $T_{90}$. Multimessenger observations indicated that most SGRBs and LGRBs should be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-21 Yun-Feng Wei , Tong Liu

A black hole (BH) hyperaccretion system might be born after the merger of a BH and a neutron star (NS) or a binary NS (BNS). In the case of a high mass accretion rate, the hyperaccretion disk is in a state of neutrino-dominated accretion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-02 Yan-Qing Qi , Tong Liu , Bao-Quan Huang , Yun-Feng Wei , De-Fu Bu
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