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The recent multimessenger observation of the short gamma-ray burst (SGRB) GRB 170817A together with the gravitational wave (GW) event GW170817 provides evidence for the long-standing hypothesis associating SGRBs with binary neutron star…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-24 Riccardo Ciolfi , Wolfgang Kastaun , Jay Vijay Kalinani , Bruno Giacomazzo

Gradual shear acceleration of energetic particles in gamma-ray burst (GRB) jets is considered. Special emphasis is given to the analysis of universal structured jets, and characteristic acceleration timescales are determined for a power-law…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Frank M. Rieger , Peter Duffy

Strong downstream magnetic fields of order of $\sim 1$G, with large correlation lengths, are believed to cause the large synchrotron emission at the afterglow phase of gamma ray bursts (GRBs). Despite of the recent theoretical efforts,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 G. Rocha da Silva , D. Falceta-Goncalves , G. Kowal , E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino

Internal-Collision-induced Magnetic Reconnection and Turbulence (ICMART) model is a widely accepted model for explaining how high-magnetization jets produce gamma-ray burst (GRB) prompt emissions. In previous works, we show that this model…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-09 Xueying Shao , He Gao

A structured gamma-ray burst jet could explain the dimness of the prompt emission observed from GRB$\,170817$A but the exact form of this structure is still ambiguous. However, with the promise of future joint gravitational wave and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-18 Fergus Hayes , Ik Siong Heng , John Veitch , Daniel Williams

Nonthermal radiation observed from astrophysical systems containing relativistic jets and shocks, e.g., gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), active galactic nuclei (AGNs), and Galactic microquasar systems usually have power-law emission spectra. Recent…

The gamma-ray burst (GRB) 060218 has ~ 10^5 times lower luminosity than typical long GRBs, and is associated with a supernova (SN). The radio afterglow displays no jet break, so that this burst might arise from a mildly-relativistic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-05 Kenji Toma , Kunihito Ioka , Takanori Sakamoto , Takashi Nakamura

Central engine of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) may be intermittent and launch several episodes of ejecta separated by a long quiescent interval. In this scenario, an external shock is formed due to the propagation of the first launched ejecta…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-31 Da-Bin Lin , Bao-Quan Huang , Tong Liu , Wei-Min Gu , Hui-Jun Mu , En-Wei Liang

Gamma-ray bursts detected at high energies provide valuable insights into the emission mechanisms behind these still puzzling enigmatic events. In this study, we focus on GRB 090510, which is an unusual short GRB exhibiting plateau emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-07 Joseph Saji , Agnieszka Janiuk , Maria Giovanna Dainotti , Shubham Bhardwaj , Gerardo Urrutia

Growing observational evidence supports the proposition that gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are powered by relativistic jets from massive helium stars whose cores have collapsed to black holes and an accretion disk (collapsars). We model the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Weiqun Zhang , S. E. Woosley

We consider a simple model for gamma-ray bursts induced by magnetic reconnection in turbulent media. The magnetic field in a jet is subject to kink instabilities, which distort the regular structure of the spiral magnetic field, drive…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-25 Alex Lazarian , Bing Zhang , Siyao Xu

This study extends the 3D magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation of a jet emerging from a binary neutron star (BNS) merger presented in Pavan et al. (2023), in which an incipient jet was manually injected into the realistic environment…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-21 Emma Dreas , Andrea Pavan , Riccardo Ciolfi , Annalisa Celotti

Both observational and theoretical studies indicate that the central engine of a gamma-ray burst (GRB) is intrinsically time-variable, implying jet inhomogeneity. A jet with an inhomogeneous Lorentz factor distribution develops internal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-12 Kanako Nakama , Kazumi Kashiyama , Nobuhiro Shimizu

Early shallow-decaying X-ray afterglows of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) may be attributed to the dipole radiations of newly-born magnetars. Assuming that the GRB jets powered by magnetars are quasi-universal, we find that the jet structure can…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-13 Wen-Jin Xie , Le Zou , Hong-Bang Liu , Shan-Qin Wang , En-Wei Liang

Long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are commonly accepted to originate in the explosion of particularly massive stars, which gives rise to a highly relativistic jet. Internal inhomogeneities in the expanding flow give rise to internal shock waves…

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), the brightest electromagnetic bursts in the universe, are believed to originate from ultra-relativistic jets launched by the rapidly rotating central engine, either a disk-surrounded newly formed black hole (BH) or…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-02 Tian-Ci Zheng , Stefano Covino , Yun Wang , Xiang-Dong Li , Da-Ming Wei , Zhi-Ping Jin

A persistent, thin, micro-nano sr. beamed gamma jet, may be ejected from BH and Pulsars, powered by ultra-relativistic electron pairs. These jet while precessing and spinning are originated by Inverse Compton and-or Synchrotron Radiation at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 D. Fargion , O. Lanciano , P. Oliva

High-resolution very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) radio observations have resolved the detailed emission structures of active galactic nucleus jets. General relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations have improved the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-21 Taiki Ogihara , Takumi Ogawa , Kenji Toma

Radially inhomogeneous gamma-ray burst (GRB) jets release variable photospheric emission and can have internal shocks occurring above the photosphere. We generically formulate a photospheric emission model of GRBs including Compton…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 Kenji Toma , Xue-Feng Wu , Peter Meszaros

The large number of isolated black holes (IBHs) in the Galaxy, estimated to be 10^8, implies a very high density of 10^-4 pc^-3 and an average distance between IBHs of 10 pc. Our study shows that the magnetic flux, accumulated on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-11-26 M. V. Barkov , D. V. Khangulyan , S. B. Popov