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We describe our attempt to determine if gamma-ray burst (GRB) and afterglow emissions could both arise in external shocks for simple GRBs--bursts consisting of just a few peaks in their lightcurves. We calculate peak flux and peak frequency…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 E. McMahon , P. Kumar , A. Panaitescu

The afterglow emission that follows gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) contains valuable information about the circumburst medium and, therefore, about the GRB progenitor. Theoretical studies of GRB blast waves, however, are often limited to simple…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Petar Mimica , Dimitrios Giannios

We predict the rate at which Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) afterglows should be detected in supernova searches as a function of limiting flux. Although GRB afterglows are rarer than supernovae, they are detectable at greater distances because of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Eric Woods , Abraham Loeb

We present in this work a unified, quantitative synthesis of analytical and numerical calculations of the effects that could be caused on Earth by a Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB), considering atmospheric and biological implications. The main…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Douglas Galante , Jorge Ernesto Horvath

Bright optical and X-ray flares have been observed in many Gamma-ray Burst (GRB) afterglows. These flares have been attributed to late activity of the central engine. In most cases the peak energy is not known and it is possible and even…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yizhong Fan , Tsvi Piran

We investigate the delayed, secondary GeV-TeV emission of gamma-ray bursts and its potential to probe the nature of intergalactic magnetic fields. Geometrical effects are properly taken into account for the time delay between primary high…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Kiyotomo Ichiki , Susumu Inoue , Keitaro Takahashi

This is a short report on the preliminary findings of the gamma ray burst (GRB) working group for the white paper on the status and future of very high energy (VHE; >50 GeV) gamma-ray astronomy. The white paper discusses the status of past…

We argue that gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) may be the origin of the cosmic gamma-ray background radiation observed in GeV range. It has theoretically been discussed that protons may carry a much larger amount of energy than electrons in GRBs,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Tomonori Totani

Based on a refined generic dynamical model, we investigate afterglows from jetted gamma-ray burst (GRB) remnants numerically. In the relativistic phase, the light curve break could marginally be seen. However, an obvious break does exist at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 Y. F. Huang , T. Lu , Z. G. Dai , K. S. Cheng

The possibility of detecting Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRB) in TeV energy range using large area muon detectors like AMANDA and Lake Baikal detector is examined. These detectors can detect TeV energy photons by detecting the secondary muons created…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Nayantara Gupta , Pijushpani Bhattacharjee

Recent gamma-ray observations have detected photons up to energies of a few PeV. These highly energetic gamma rays are emitted by the most powerful sources in the Galaxy. Propagating over astrophysical distances, gamma rays might interact…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-18 Gaetano Di Marco , Rafael Alves Batista , Miguel Ángel Sánchez-Conde

High-energy muon- and electron-neutrinos yield a non-negligible flux of tau neutrinos as they propagate through Earth. In this letter, we address the impact of this additional component in the PeV and EeV energy regimes for the first time.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-28 Alfonso Garcia Soto , Pavel Zhelnin , Ibrahim Safa , Carlos A. Argüelles

The Z-burst model and the direct propagation of UHE proton in negligible extragalactic magnetic fields produce gamma-rays afterglows and precursors halos, respectively at GeVs and TeV energy band a few degree around the UHECR arrival…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Fargion , A. Colaiuda

We present a set of seventeen Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) with known redshifts and X-ray afterglow emission. We apply cosmological corrections in order to compare their fluxes normalized at a redshift of 1. Two classes of GRB can be defined…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 B. Gendre , M. Boer

This review focuses on the physics of Gamma Ray Bursts probed through their radio afterglow emission. Even though radio band is the least explored of the afterglow spectrum, it has played an important role in the progress of GRB physics,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-22 Lekshmi Resmi

Extensive observational campaigns of afterglow hunting have greatly enriched our understanding of the gamma-ray burst (GRB) phenomenon. Efforts have been made recently to explore some afterglow properties or signatures that will be tested…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Bing Zhang , Peter Meszaros , Junfeng Wang

A growing number of gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglows is observed at very-high energies (VHE, $\gtrsim 100$ GeV). Yet, our understanding of the mechanism powering the VHE emission remains baffling. We make use of multi-wavelength…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-25 Ersilia Guarini , Irene Tamborra , Damien Bégué , Annika Rudolph

Cosmological gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and their afterglows seem to result from dissipation of bulk energy in relativistic outflows, but their engine has not been unambiguously identified. The engine could be a young pulsar formed from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Eric G. Blackman , Insu Yi

The LHAASO Collaboration has recently reported a measurement of the diffuse gamma-ray emission from the Galactic Plane at energies between 10 TeV and 1 PeV. While this emission is brighter than that expected from cosmic-ray interactions in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-18 Ariane Dekker , Ian Holst , Dan Hooper , Giovani Leone , Emily Simon , Huangyu Xiao

We calculate the {\it afterglow} emission for Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) going off in an extremely low density medium, referred to as {\it naked bursts}. Our results also apply to the case where the external medium density falls off sharply at…

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