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Gamma-ray bursts with long durations are widely thought to arise from the collapse of massive stars, where the wind environment is unavoidable. It is also believed that $\gamma$-ray bursts come from jets. Considering these two points in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 L. J. Gou , Z. G. Dai , Y. F. Huang , T. Lu

We work on a GRB sample whose initial Lorentz factors ($\Gamma_0$) are constrained with the afterglow onset method and the jet opening angles ($\theta_{\rm j}$) are determined by the jet break time. We confirm the $\Gamma_0$ -…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-21 Shuang-Xi Yi , Wei-Hua Lei , Bing Zhang , Zi-Gao Dai , Xue-Feng Wu , En-Wei Liang

We use published data in radio, optical and X-ray bands to analyze and model afterglows of GW/GRB 170817A. Our analysis is based on a phenomenological gamma-ray burst generator model which we previously used to study the prompt gamma-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-09 Houri Ziaeepour

The afterglow of a gamma-ray burst (GRB) is commonly thought to be due to continuous deceleration of a relativistically expanding fireball in the surrounding medium. Assuming that the expansion of the fireball is adiabatic and that the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Z. G. Dai , T. Lu

The afterglow emission from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is usually interpreted as synchrotron radiation from electrons accelerated at the GRB external shock, that propagates with relativistic velocities into the magnetized interstellar medium.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Lorenzo Sironi , Anatoly Spitkovsky , Jonathan Arons

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

Within the framework of the external shock model of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) afterglows, we perform a morphological analysis of the early optical lightcurves to directly constrain model parameters. We define four morphological types, i.e.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-23 He Gao , Xiang-Gao Wang , Peter Mészáros , Bing Zhang

I consider here acceleration and heating of relativistic outflow by local magnetic energy dissipation process in Poynting flux dominated outflow. Adopting the standard assumption that the reconnection rate scales with the Alfven speed, I…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-20 Asaf Pe'er

We investigate a model for the shallow decay phases of Gamma-ray Burst (GRB) afterglows discovered by Swift/XRT in the first hours following a GRB event. In the context of the fireball scenario, we consider the possibility that long-lived…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 Simone Dall'Osso , Giulia Stratta , Dafne Guetta , Stefano Covino , Giovanni De Cesare , Luigi Stella

The prompt emission of the long, smooth, and single-pulsed gamma-ray burst, GRB $\textit{141028A}$, is analyzed under the guise of an external shock model. First, we fit the $\gamma$-ray spectrum with a two-component photon model, namely…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-25 J. Michael Burgess , Damien Bégué , Felix Ryde , Nicola Omodei , Asaf Pe'er , J. L. Racusin , A. Cucchiara

Context: Swift observations suggest that the X-ray afterglow emission of some gamma-ray bursts (GRB) may have internal origins, and the conventional external shock (ES) cannot be the exclusive source of the afterglow emission. Aims: If the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-08-31 Z. Mao , Yun-Wei Yu , Z. G. Dai , C. M. Pi , X. P. Zheng

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most luminous explosions in the universe, yet the nature and physical properties of their energy sources are far from understood. Very important clues, however, can be inferred by studying the afterglows of…

The early X-ray afterglow for a significant number of gamma-ray bursts detected by the Swift satellite is observed to have a phase of very slow flux decline with time ($F_\nu \propto t^{-\alpha}$ with $0.2 \lesssim \alpha \lesssim 0.8$) for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jonathan Granot , Pawan Kumar

We use a sample of 19 Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) that exhibit single-peaked optical light curves to test the standard fireball model by investigating the relationship between the time of the onset of the afterglow and the temporal rising…

Gamma-ray bursts are most luminous explosions in the universe. Their ejecta are believed to move towards Earth with a relativistic speed. The interaction between this "relativistic jet" and a circum burst medium drives a pair of (forward…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 He Gao , Wei-Hua Lei , Yuan-Chuan Zou , Xue-Feng Wu , Bing Zhang

We examine millisecond magnetars as central engines of Gamma Ray Bursts' (GRB) prompt emission. Using the proto-magnetar wind model of Metzger et al. 2011, we estimate the temporal evolution of the magnetization and power injection at the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-12 Paz Beniamini , Dimitrios Giannios , Brian D. Metzger

Short-hard and long-soft gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are two distinct phenomena, but their prompt and afterglow emission show many similarities. This suggests that two different progenitor systems lead to similar physical processes and that the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Ehud Nakar

We describe the afterglows of the long gamma-ray-burst (GRB) 130427A within the context of a binary-driven hypernova (BdHN). The afterglows originate from the interaction between a newly born neutron star ($\nu$NS), created by an Ic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-26 R. Ruffini , M. Karlica , N. Sahakyan , J. A. Rueda , Y. Wang , G. J. Mathews , C. L. Bianco , M. Muccino

In Paper I we presented a detailed formulation of the relativistic shocks and synchrotron emission in the context of Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) physics. To see how well this model reproduces the observed characteristics of the GRBs and their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Houri Ziaeepour

Previous studies have considered synchrotron as the emission mechanism for prompt Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs). These works have shown that the electrons must cool on a timescale comparable to the dynamic time at the source in order to satisfy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-28 Paz Beniamini , Rodolfo Barniol Duran , Dimitrios Giannios
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