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We present a systematic temporal and spectral study of all Swift-XRT observations of GRB afterglows discovered between 2005 January and 2007 December. After constructing and fitting all light curves and spectra to power-law models, we…

The observational follow-up campaign of the gravitational wave (GW) multi-messenger event GW170817/GRB170817A has shown that the prompt $\gamma$-rays are consistent with a relativistic structured jet observed from a wide viewing angle…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-19 E. J. Howell , K. Ackley , A. Rowlinson , D. Coward

Synchrotron and inverse Compton emission successfully explain the observed spectra of gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglows. It is thought that most GRBs are products of extremely relativistic outflows and the afterglow marks the interaction of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-04 Marcus DuPont , Andrew MacFadyen , Re'em Sari

We numerically compute light and polarisation curves of gamma-ray burst afterglows for various configurations of the jet luminosity structure and for different dynamical evolutions. We especially consider the standard homogeneous ``top…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Elena M. Rossi , D. Lazzati , Jay D. Salmonson , G. Ghisellini

The structure of Gamma Ray Burst (GRB) jets impacts on their prompt and afterglow emission properties. The jet of GRBs could be uniform, with constant energy per unit solid angle within the jet aperture, or it could instead be structured,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 A. Pescalli , G. Ghirlanda , O. S. Salafia , G. Ghisellini , F. Nappo , R. Salvaterra

We show the peak magnitude for orphan afterglows from the jets of gravitational wave (GW) detected black-hole/neutron star - neutron star (BH/NS-NS) mergers highly depends on the jet half-opening angle $\theta_j$. Short $\gamma$-ray bursts…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-18 Gavin P Lamb , Shiho Kobayashi

Gravitational-wave detected neutron star mergers provide an opportunity to investigate short gamma-ray burst (GRB) jet afterglows without the GRB trigger. Here we show that the post-peak afterglow decline can distinguish between an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-22 Gavin P Lamb , Ilya Mandel , Lekshmi Resmi

As the most energetic explosion in the universe, gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are usually believed to be generated by relativistic jets. Some mechanisms (e.g. internal non-uniform magnetic dissipation processes or the precession of the central…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-03 Jin-Da Li , He Gao , Shunke Ai , Wei-Hua Lei

The jet opening angle of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is an important parameter for determining the characteristics of the progenitor, and the information contained in the opening angle gives insight into the relativistic outflow and the total…

Here we calculate the GRB afterglow light curves from a relativistic jet as seen by observers at a wide range of viewing angles from the jet axis, and the jet is uniform or non-uniform. We find that, for uniform jet the afterglow light…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. M. Wei , Z. P. Jin

Gamma ray burst (GRB) afterglow light curves have the potential to inform us about presently unobserved stages in the aftermath of a neutron star merger. Using numerical simulations of short GRB afterglows we obtain an approximate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-07 Muhammed Diyaddin Ilhan , Kai Schwenzer

Whether gamma-ray bursts are highly beamed or not is a very important question, since it has been pointed out that the beaming will lead to a sharp break in the afterglow light curves during the ultra-relativistic phase, with the breaking…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 D. M. Wei , T. Lu

We conducted a comprehensive investigation of the brightest-of-all-time GRB 221009A using new insights from very high energy (VHE) observations from LHAASO and a complete multiwavelength afterglow dataset. Through data fitting, we imposed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-09 Ren Jia , Wang Yun , Dai Zi-Gao

Early afterglow observations of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are valuable for exploring the properties of their jets and ambient medium. We report our photometric and spectroscopic observations of GRB 210104A and discuss its jet properties with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-16 Lu-Lu Zhang , Li-Ping Xin , Jing Wang , Xu-Hui Han , Dong Xu , Zi-Pei Zhu , Chao Wu , Jian-Yan Wei , En-Wei Liang

The discovery of the short GRB 090510 has raised considerable attention mainly because it had a bright optical afterglow and it is among the most energetic events detected so far within the entire GRB population. The afterglow was observed…

Gamma-ray bursts are expected to be generated by structured jets, whose profiles significantly impact their afterglow emission. Previously, we developed a numerical code jetsimpy, to model the afterglow of jets with arbitrary angular…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-22 Hao Wang , Hao Zhou , Yi-Zhong Fan , Da-Ming Wei

The jet breaks in the afterglow lightcurves of short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs), rarely detected so far, are crucial for estimating the half-opening angles of the ejecta ($\theta_{\rm j}$) and hence the neutron star merger rate. In this work…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-02 Zhi-Ping Jin , Xiang Li , Hao Wang , Yuan-Zhu Wang , Hao-Ning He , Qiang Yuan , Fu-Wen Zhang , Yuan-Chuan Zou , Yi-Zhong Fan , Da-Ming Wei

We discuss jet dynamics for narrow and wide gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglow jets and the observational implications of numerical simulations of relativistic jets in two dimensions. We confirm earlier numerical results that sideways…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Hendrik J. van Eerten , Andrew I. MacFadyen

Direct multi-dimensional numerical simulation is the most reliable approach for calculating the fluid dynamics and observational signatures of relativistic jets in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). We present a two-dimensional relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-05-29 Weiqun Zhang , Andrew MacFadyen
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