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Synchrotron radiation from the reverse- and forward-shock regions typically describes the evolution of temporal and spectral features given by the closure relations (CRs) during the late and long-/short-lasting emission in the afterglow…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-30 Nissim Fraija , B. Betancourt Kamenetskaia , Antonio Galván Gámez , Maria G. Dainotti , Hermes León Vargas

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

In this paper, we present PyBlastAfterglow, a modular C++ code with a Python interface to model light curves and sky maps of gamma-ray burst afterglows. The code is open-source, modular, and sufficiently fast to perform parameter grid…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-26 Vsevolod Nedora , Ludovica Crosato Menegazzi , Enrico Peretti , Tim Dietrich , Masaru Shibata

Synchrotron radiation mechanism, when electrons are accelerated in a relativistic shock, is known to have serious problems to explain the observed gamma-ray spectrum below the peak for most Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs); the synchrotron spectrum…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-11-02 R. Barniol Duran , Z. Bosnjak , P. Kumar

The detection of delayed X-ray, optical and radio emission, "afterglow", associated with $\gamma$-ray bursts (GRBs) is consistent with fireball models, where the emission are produced by relativistic expanding blast wave, driven by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 D. M. Wei , T. Lu

We calculate the synchrotron self-Compton emission from internal shocks occurring in relativistic winds as a source of gamma-ray bursts, with allowance for self-absorption. For plausible model parameters most pulses within a Gamma-Ray Burst…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Panaitescu , P. Meszaros

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are intense bursts of high-energy photons (prompt emissions) caused by relativistic jets. After the emissions, multi-wavelength afterglows, from radio to very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray, last for more than a few…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-10 Yuri Sato , Kaori Obayashi , B. Theodre Zhang , Shuta J. Tanaka , Kohta Murase , Yutaka Ohira , Ryo Yamazaki

Aims: We investigate the behavior of the frequency-centered light curves expected within the standard model of Gamma Ray Bursts allowing the maximum electron energy to be a free parameter permitted to take low values. Methods: We solve the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Maria Petropoulou , Apostolos Mastichiadis , Tsvi Piran

We calculate the very high energy (sub-GeV to TeV) inverse Compton emission of GRB afterglows. We argue that this emission provides a powerful test of the currently accepted afterglow model. We focus on two processes: synchrotron…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-03-04 Yi-Zhong Fan , Tsvi Piran , Ramesh Narayan , Da-Ming Wei

Synchrotron self-Compton (SSC) process in the reverse shocks of gamma-ray bursts is suggested to be responsible for the observed prompt high-energy gamma-ray emissions from several gamma-ray bursts. We find that the SSC emission from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 X. Y. Wang , Z. G. Dai , T. Lu

GRB afterglow is reasonably described by synchrotron emission from relativistic blast waves at cosmological distances. We perform detailed calculations taking into account the effect of synchrotron self absorption. We consider emission from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Jonathan Granot , Tsvi Piran , Re'em Sari

The recently discovered GRB afterglow is believed to be described reasonably well by synchrotron emission from a slowing down relativistic shell that collides with an external medium. To compare theoretical models with afterglow…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Re'em Sari , Tsvi Piran , Ramesh Narayan

The origin of the shallow-decay emission during early X-ray afterglows has been an open issue since the launch of the Swift satellite. One of the appealing models is the late internal dissipation model, where X-ray emission during the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-05-03 Kohta Murase , Kenji Toma , Ryo Yamazaki , Peter Meszaros

We demonstrate that gamma-ray burst afterglow spectra and light curves can be calculated for arbitrary explosion and radiation parameters by scaling the peak flux and the critical frequencies connecting different spectral regimes. Only one…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 H. J. van Eerten , A. I. MacFadyen

We describe a general method for modeling gamma-ray burst prompt emission. We find that for the burst to be produced via the synchrotron process unphysical conditions are required -- the distance of the source from the center of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Pawan Kumar , Erin McMahon , UT Austin

Observations of SNRs in X-ray and gamma-ray bands promise to contribute with important information in our understanding on the nature of galactic cosmic rays. The analysis of SNRs images collected in different energy bands requires the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 S. Orlando , O. Petruk , F. Bocchino , M. Miceli

Models for gamma-ray burst afterglow dynamics and synchrotron spectra are known to exhibit various scale invariances, owing to the scale-free nature of fluid dynamics and the power-law shape of synchrotron spectra. Since GRB 170817A,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-26 Hendrik van Eerten , Geoffrey Ryan

We have examined cutoffs and pile-ups due to various processes in the spectra of particles produced by shock acceleration, and found that, even in the absence of energy losses, the shape of the spectrum of accelerated particles at energies…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 R. J. Protheroe , Todor Stanev

In models for gamma ray burst afterglows, it is normally assumed that the external shock strongly amplifies the magnetic field and that this field maintains a steady value throughout the shocked region. We discuss the effects of modifying…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Elena Rossi , Martin J. Rees

The fireball model of gamma-ray bursts predicted that when the energetic blast wave encountered the surrounding medium, there will be afterglow emission, and the subsequent afterglow observations appeared to confirm this prediction. In this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. M. Wei , T. Lu