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The study of the early high-energy emission from both long and short Gamma-ray bursts has been revolutionized by the Swift mission. The rapid response of Swift shows that the non-thermal X-ray emission transitions smoothly from the prompt…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 P. T. O'Brien , R. Willingale , J. P. Osborne , M. R. Goad

A high-degree of polarization of gamma-ray burst (GRB) prompt emission has been confirmed in recent years. In this paper, we apply jitter radiation to study the polarization feature of GRB prompt emission. In our framework, relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 J. Mao , J. Wang

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are among the most luminous sources in the universe. The nature of their emission at TeV energies is one of the most relevant open issues related to these events. The temporal and spectral features inferred from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-10 Y. Pérez Araujo , M. M. González , N. Fraija

A substantial fraction of prompt GRB spectra have soft spectral indexes exceeding the maximum allowed by the synchrotron model alpha_{max}=-2/3. Some spectra also exhibit very sharp break at E_p, inconsistent with the smooth synchrotron…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Mikhail V. Medvedev

Linear polarization have been observed in both the prompt phase and afterglow of some bright gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Polarization in the prompt phase spans a wide range, and may be as high as $\gtrsim 50\%$. In the afterglow phase,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-20 Hai-Nan Lin , Xin Li , Zhe Chang

Detailed information on the physical parameters in the sources of cosmological Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) is obtained from few plausible assumptions consistent with observations. Model-independent requirements posed by these assumptions on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 E. V. Derishev , V. V. Kocharovsky , Vl. V. Kocharovsky

We propose a new mechanism for the prompt emission of gamma-ray burst. In our model electrons are continuously accelerated in the post shock region via plasma turbulence. Using the Monte Carlo technique, we mimic the second-order Fermi…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-11-05 K. Asano , T. Terasawa

The brightest Gamma-ray burst, GRB 221009A, has spurred numerous theoretical investigations, with particular attention paid to the origins of ultra-high energy TeV photons during the prompt phase. However, analyzing the mechanism of…

Data from the Swift satellite has enabled us for the first time to provide a complete picture of the gamma-ray burst emission mechanism and its relationship with the early afterglow emissions. We show that gamma-ray photons for two bursts,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-19 P. Kumar , E. McMahon , S. D. Barthelmy , D. Burrows , N. Gehrels , M. Goad , J. Nousek , G. Tagliaferri

The dominant radiation mechanism that produces the prompt emission in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) remains a major open question. Spectral information alone has proven insufficient in elucidating its nature. Time-resolved linear polarization has…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-21 Ramandeep Gill , Jonathan Granot

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

Gamma Ray Burst and Soft Gamma Repeaters are neither standard candle nor isotropic explosions. Our model explain them as strong blazing of a light-house, spinning and precessing gamma jet. Such jets at maximal output (as GRBs in Supernova…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Daniele Fargion

In order to explain rapid light curve variability without invoking a variable source, several authors have proposed "minijets" that move relativistically relative to the main flow of the jet. Here we consider the possibility that these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-29 Rodolfo Barniol Duran , Mingbin Leng , Dimitrios Giannios

Many classes of gamma-ray sources, such as gamma-ray bursts, blazars, Seyfert galaxies, and galactic black hole sources are surrounded by large amounts of gas and dust. X-rays and gamma-rays that traverse this material will be attenuated by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. D. Dermer , M. Boettcher , E. P. Liang

The TeV observations of GRB~221009A provided us with a unique opportunity to analyze the contemporaneous phase in which both prompt and afterglow emissions are seen simultaneously. To describe this initial phase of Gamma-Ray Burst…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-05 Evgeny Derishev , Tsvi Piran

For the first time, a short gamma-ray burst (GRB) was unambiguously associated with a gravitational wave (GW) observation from a binary neutron star (NS) merger. This allows us to link the details of the central engine properties to GRB…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-22 P. Veres , P. Mészáros , A. Goldstein , N. Fraija , V. Connaughton , E. Burns , R. D. Preece , R. Hamburg , C. A. Wilson-Hodge , M. S. Briggs , D. Kocevski

Recent observations have challenged the long-held opinion that the duration of gamma-ray burst (GRB) prompt emission is determined by the activity epochs of the central engine. Specifically, the observations of GRB 230307A have revealed a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-25 Shu-Xu Yi , Emre Seyit Yorgancioglu , S. -L. Xiong , S. -N. Zhang

The many similarities between the prompt emission pulses in gamma ray bursts (GRBs) and X-ray flares during the fast decay and afterglow phases of GRBs suggest a common origin. In the cannonball (CB) model of GRBs, this common origin is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 Shlomo Dado , Arnon Dar

Tail emission of the prompt gamma-ray burst (GRB) is discussed using a multiple emitting sub-shell (inhomogeneous jet, sub-jets or mini-jets) model, where the whole GRB jet consists of many emitting sub-shells. One may expect that such a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Ryo Yamazaki , Kenji Toma , Kunihito Ioka , Takashi Nakamura

After more than 40 years from their discovery, the long-lasting tension between predictions and observations of GRBs prompt emission spectra starts to be solved. We found that the observed spectra can be produced by the synchrotron process,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-25 Maria Edvige Ravasio