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The electron energy distribution index, p, is a fundamental parameter of the synchrotron emission from a range of astronomical sources. Here we examine one such source of synchrotron emission, Gamma-Ray Burst afterglows observed by the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-05-28 P. A. Curran , P. A. Evans , M. de Pasquale , M. J. Page , A. J. van der Horst

The second {\itshape Fermi}/LAT gamma-ray burst (GRB) catalog (2FLGC) spanning the first decade of operations by the LAT collaboration was recently released. The closure relations of the synchrotron forward shock (FS) model are not able to…

In the standard synchrotron afterglow model, a power law of electrons is responsible for all aspects of photon production and absorption. Recent numerical work has shown that the vast majority of particles in the downstream medium are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-22 Donald C. Warren , Maxim V. Barkov , Hirotaka Ito , Shigehiro Nagataki , Tanmoy Laskar

Multiwavelength observations of blazars such as Mrk 421 and Mrk 501 show that they exhibit strong short time variabilities in flare-like phenomena. Based on the homogeneous synchrotron self-Compton (SSC) model and assuming that time…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 H. Li , M. Kusunose

We calculate the spectra of inverse Compton (IC) emissions in gamma-ray burst (GRB) shocks produced when relativistic ejecta encounters the external interstellar medium, assuming a broken power-law approximation to the synchrotron seed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 X. Y. Wang , Z. G. Dai , T. Lu

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are fascinating extragalactic objects. They represent a fantastic opportunity to investigate unique properties not exhibited in other sources. Multi-wavelength afterglow observations from some short- and…

The production of both gravitational waves and short gamma-ray bursts (sGRBs) is widely associated with the merger of compact objects. Several studies have modelled the evolution of the electromagnetic emission using the synchrotron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-11-06 N. Fraija , D. Lopez-Camara , A. C. Caligula do E. S. Pedreira , B. Betancourt Kamenetskaia , P. Veres , S. Dichiara

Blazars emit non-thermal radiation in all frequency bands from radio to \gamma-rays. Additionally, they often exhibit rapid flaring events at all frequencies with doubling time scale of the TeV and X-ray flux on the order of minutes, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Michael Zacharias , Reinhard Schlickeiser

The optical afterglow of Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) 000301C exhibited a significant, short-timescale deviation from the power-law flux decline expected in the standard synchrotron shock model. Garnavich, Loeb & Stanek found that this deviation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 B. Scott Gaudi , Jonathan Granot , Abraham Loeb

Synchrotron emission is believed to be a major radiation mechanism during gamma-ray bursts' (GRBs) prompt emission phase. A significant drawback of this assumption is that the theoretical predicted spectrum, calculated within the framework…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Asaf Pe'er , Bing Zhang

Gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglows are well described by synchrotron emission originating from the interaction between a relativistic blast wave and the external medium surrounding the GRB progenitor. We introduce a code to reconstruct…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-06-25 H. J. van Eerten , R. A. M. J. Wijers

The high polarization observed in the prompt phase of some gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) arouses extensive studies on the emission mechanism. In this paper, we investigate the polarization properties of the synchrotron-self-Compton (SSC) process…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-10-13 Zhe Chang , Hai-Nan Lin

Short gamma-ray bursts (sGRBs) are widely believed to result from the mergers of compact binaries. This model predicts an afterglow that bears the characteristic signatures of a constant, low density medium, including a smooth…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Cole Holcomb , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz , Fabio De Colle , Gabriela Montes

We present preliminary data fit results of synthetic light curves computed from numerical afterglow blast wave simulations. Our technique uses Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) in a new data analysis tool, ScaleFit. Scaling relations in both…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-07-25 Geoffrey Ryan , Hendrik van Eerten , Andrew MacFadyen

Strong spectral softening has been revealed in the late X-ray afterglows of some gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). The scenario of X-ray scattering around circum-burst dusty medium has been supported by previous works due to its overall successful…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-09 Yuan-Zhu Wang , Yinan Zhao , Lang Shao , En-Wei Liang , Zu-Jia Lu

The power-law decay of the X-ray emission of GRB afterglows 050319, 050401, 050607, 050713A, 050802 and 050922C exhibits a steepening at about 1--4 hours after the burst which, surprisingly, is not accompanied by a break in the optical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-19 A. Panaitescu , P. Meszaros , D. Burrows , J. Nousek , N. Gehrels , P. O'Brien , R. Willingale

According to current models, gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are produced when the energy carried by a relativistic outflow is dissipated and converted into radiation. The efficiency of this process, $\epsilon_\gamma$, is one of the critical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jonathan Granot , Arieh Konigl , Tsvi Piran

Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) afterglows are well described by synchrotron emission from relativistic blast waves expanding into an external medium. The blast wave is believed to amplify the magnetic field and accelerate the electrons into a power…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Jonathan Granot , Re'em Sari

In this paper we study formation broad band energy spectra of electrons due to synchrotron radiation and inverse Compton (IC) scattering. The effect of transition of IC cooling from the Thomson regime to the Klein-Nishina regime can be very…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Khangulyan , F. Aharonian

Short duration Gamma Ray Bursts(SGRB) and their afterglows are among the most promising electro-magnetic (EM) counterparts of Neutron Star (NS) mergers. The afterglow emission is broadband, visible across the entire electro-magnetic window…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-20 M. Saleem , L. Resmi , Kuntal Misra , Archana Pai , K. G. Arun