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Due to relativistic bulk motion, the structure and orientation of gamma-ray burst jets have a fundamental role in determining how they appear. The recent discovery of the GW170817 binary neutron star merger and the associated GRB boosted…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-16 Om Sharan Salafia , Giancarlo Ghirlanda

The ultra-relativistic outflows powering gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) acquire angular structure through their interaction with external material. They are often characterized by a compact, nearly uniform narrow core (with half-opening angle…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-06 Paz Beniamini , Ramandeep Gill , Jonathan Granot

The jet structure of short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) has been controversial after the detection of GRB 170817A as the electromagnetic counterparts to the gravitational wave event GW170817. Different authors use different jet structures for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-20 Kazuya Takahashi , Kunihito Ioka

The recently discovered GRB afterglow is believed to be described reasonably well by synchrotron emission from a slowing down relativistic shell that collides with an external medium. To compare theoretical models with afterglow…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Re'em Sari , Tsvi Piran , Ramesh Narayan

We investigate the effect that the structure of GRB jets has on the afterglow light curves for observers located at different viewing angles, $\theta_{obs}$, from the jet symmetry axis. The largest uncertainty in the jet dynamics is the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Jonathan Granot , Pawan Kumar

The structure of Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) jets impacts on their prompt and afterglow emission properties. Insights into the still unknown structure of GRBs can be achieved by studying how different structures impact on the luminosity function…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-05 O. S. Salafia , A. Pescalli , F. Nappo , G. Ghisellini , G. Ghirlanda , R. Salvaterra , G. Tagliaferri

Some progenitor models of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) (e.g., collapsars) may produce anisotropic jets in which the energy per unit solid angle is a power-law function of the angle ($\propto\theta^{-k}$). We calculate light curves and spectra…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Z. G. Dai , L. J. Gou

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are generally believed to occur in environments where the surrounding medium is either a uniform interstellar medium (ISM) or, in some cases, a dense stellar wind from a massive progenitor. Recently, GRB 191019A has…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-10 Xiao-Hong Zhao

Exceptionally bright gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglows can reveal the angular structure of their jets. GRB jets appear to have a narrow core (of half-opening angle $\theta_c$), beyond which their kinetic energy drops as a power-law with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-28 Ramandeep Gill , Jonathan Granot

Gamma-ray bursts and their afterglows are thought to be produced by an ultrarelativistic jet. One of the most important open questions is the outflow composition: the energy may be carried out from the central source either as kinetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-01 Stefano Covino

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most luminous astrophysical transients, known to be associated with core collapse of massive stars or mergers of two compact objects such as two neutron stars. They are followed by multi-wavelength afterglow…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-01 Yihan Wang , Connery Chen , Bing Zhang

The structured jet is involved to explain the afterglows and even the prompt emission of GRB 170817A. In this paper, we stress that for a precessing jet, the jet structure in the prompt emission phase and that in the afterglow phase may be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-26 Bao-Quan Huang , Da-Bin Lin , Tong Liu , Jia Ren , Xiang-Gao Wang , Hong-Bang Liu , En-Wei Liang

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

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are most intense transient gamma-ray events in the sky when they are on together with the strong evidences (i.e. the isotropic and inhomogeneous distribution of GRBs detected by BASTE) that they are located at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-01 K. S. Cheng , T. Lu

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most luminous explosions in the Universe and are powered by ultra-relativistic jets. Their prompt $\gamma$-ray emission briefly outshines the rest of the $\gamma$-ray sky making them detectable from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-07 Ramandeep Gill , Jonathan Granot

There are several lines of evidence indicating that the ultra-relativistic outflows powering gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are collimated into narrow jets. However, these are indirect, and the jet structure is rather poorly constrained. What is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-12-24 Jonathan Granot , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

Gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglows are emissions from ultrarelativistic blast waves produced by a narrow jet interacting with surrounding matter. Since the first multimessenger observation of a neutron star merger, hydrodynamic modeling of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-12 Hao Wang , Ranadeep G. Dastidar , Dimitrios Giannios , Paul C. Duffell

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

Even though the prompt emission of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is highly beamed, high-latitude emission still produces a distinct light curve break after the intrinsic emission ceases and the edge of the jet comes into view. This curvature…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-19 Zhen-Yu Yan , Xiao-Hong Zhao , Hendrik J. van Eerten , Jun Yang , Jiang-Chuan Tuo , Shu-Xu Yi , Chen-Wei Wang , Wen-Jun Tan , Shao-Lin Xiong , Bin-Bin Zhang

Gamma-ray bursts (GRB) are sudden, intense flashes of gamma-rays which, for a few blinding seconds, light up in an otherwise fairly dark gamma-ray sky. They are detected at the rate of about once a day, and while they are on, they outshine…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 P. Meszaros