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The prompt emission of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is supposed to be released from the relativistic jet launched from the central engine. Apart from the non-thermal nature of the spectra in a majority of GRBs, there is evidence for the presence…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-22 Ding-Fang Hu , Jin-Jun Geng , Hao-Xuan Gao , Jing-Zhi Yan , Xue-Feng Wu

By coupling radiation transfer calculations to hydrodynamic simulations, there have been major advancements in understanding the long Gamma Ray Burst (LGRB) prompt emission. Building upon these achievements, we present an analysis of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-26 Tyler Parsotan , Diego Lopez-Camara , Davide Lazzati

A leading mechanism for producing cosmological gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is via ultra-relativistic particles in an expanding fireball. The kinetic energy of the particles is converted into thermal energy in a forward shock and a reverse…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Re'em Sari , Ramesh Narayan , Tsvi Piran

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are known to be highly collimated events, and are mostly detectable when they are seen on-axis or very nearly on-axis. However, GRBs can be seen from off-axis angles, and the recent detection of a short GRB…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-03 Ruben Farinelli , Rupal Basak , Lorenzo Amati , Cristiano Guidorzi , Filippo Frontera

Rapid gamma-ray flares pose an astrophysical puzzle, requiring mechanisms both to accelerate energetic particles and to produce fast observed variability. These dual requirements may be satisfied by collisionless relativistic magnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-26 J. M. Mehlhaff , G. R. Werner , D. A. Uzdensky , M. C. Begelman

Early X-ray emission of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) traces the transition between the prompt emission and the afterglow radiation, and its rapid flux decline is often interpreted as the tail of the prompt emission. As such, it can offer…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-08 Annarita Ierardi , Gor Oganesyan , Stefano Ascenzi , Marica Branchesi , Biswajit Banerjee , Samuele Ronchini

The hard X-ray and gamma-ray phenomenology of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) can be explained by an external shock model where a single relativistic blast wave interacts with the surrounding medium. Besides reproducing the generic spectral…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Charles D. Dermer

Gamma-ray burst (GRB) prompt emission is commonly attributed to non-thermal radiation processes operating in the optically thin regions of a relativistic outflow. Among these, optically thin inverse-Compton (IC) scattering remains an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-31 Pragyan Pratim Bordoloi , Shubh Mittal , Shabnam Iyyani

A theoretical attempt to identify the physical process responsible for the afterglow emission of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) is presented, leading to the occurrence of thermal emission in the comoving frame of the shock wave giving rise to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Ruffini , C. L. Bianco , P. Chardonnet , F. Fraschetti , V. Gurzadyan , S. -S. Xue

The emission mechanism of the gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is still a matter of debates. The standard synchrotron energy spectrum of cooling electrons F_E ~ E^{-1/2} is much too soft to account for the majority of the observed spectral slopes.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Boris E. Stern , Juri Poutanen

Information on the spectral shape of prompt emission in gamma-ray bursts (GRB) is mostly available only at energies $\gtrsim10$ keV, where the main instruments for GRB detection are sensitive. The origin of this emission is still very…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Gor Oganesyan , Lara Nava , Giancarlo Ghirlanda , Andrea Melandri , Annalisa Celotti

Recent observations of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have provided growing evidence for collimated outflows and emission, and strengthened the connection between GRBs and supernovae. If massive stars are the progenitors of GRBs, the hard photon…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Piero Madau , Roger D. Blandford , Martin J. Rees

The origin of prompt emission in $\gamma$-ray bursts (GRBs) is highly debated topic. The observed spectra are supposed to play a crucial role in constraining the location of the emitting region, the strength of the magnetic field and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-26 Gor Oganesyan

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are among the most energetic transient phenomena in the universe and serve as powerful probes for high-energy astrophysical processes. In particular, faint GRBs originating from a distant universe may provide unique…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Shogo Sato , Kazuo Tanaka , Shojun Ogasawara , Kazuki Yamamoto , Kazuhiko Murasaki , Ryuichi Tanida , Jun Kataoka

Gamma ray bursts (GRB's) often feature subpulses that have a distinctively asymmetric profile -- they rise quickly and decay much more slowly, while their spectrum softens slightly with observer time. It is suggested that these subpulses…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 David Eichler , Hadar Manis

The detection of GW170817 in gravitational waves and gamma rays revealed that short gamma-ray bursts are associated with the merger of neutron-stars. Gamma rays are thought to result from the formation of collimated jets, but the details of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-10 Amanda Farah , Reed Essick , Zoheyr Doctor , Maya Fishbach , Daniel E. Holz

Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are the must violent explosions after the Big-Bang. Their high energy radiation can potentially carry information about the most inner part of the accretion disk of a collapsing star, ionize the surrounding material…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-12-19 Houri Ziaeepour

The radiative process responsible for gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) prompt emission has not been identified yet. If dominated by fast-cooling synchrotron radiation, the part of the spectrum immediately below the $\nu F_\nu$ peak energy should…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-20 Gor Oganesyan , Lara Nava , Giancarlo Ghirlanda , Annalisa Celotti

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are promising as sources of neutrinos and cosmic rays. In the internal shock scenario, blobs of plasma emitted from a central engine collide within a relativistic jet and form shocks, leading to particle acceleration…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-06 Mauricio Bustamante , Jonas Heinze , Kohta Murase , Walter Winter

It is widely accepted that the prompt transient signal in the 10 keV - 10 GeV band from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) arises from multiple shocks internal to the ultra-relativistic expansion. The detailed understanding of the dissipation and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 Matthew G. Baring