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The detection of $\gamma$-ray candidates up to the energy of $\approx$13 TeV from the exceptionally bright $\gamma$-ray burst GRB 221009A by the Large High Altitude Air-Shower Observatory (LHAASO) has raised considerable interest in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-14 Timur A. Dzhatdoev , Jagdish C. Joshi , Abhijit Roy , Grigory I. Rubtsov , Anatoly A. Semenov

The TeV emission detected in just five gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is generally ascribed to the synchrotron emission or the synchrotron self-Compton process in the external forward shock. The brightest gamma-ray burst, GRB 221009A, with an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-08 Zhi-Lin Chen , Da-Bin Lin , Guo-Yu Li , En-Wei Liang

In the framework of the internal shock scenario, we model the broadband prompt emission of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) with emphasis on the GeV-TeV bands, utilizing Monte Carlo simulations that include various processes associated with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Katsuaki Asano , Susumu Inoue

The observational diversity of optical emission, which coincides with prompt gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), has been discovered in the recent Swift era. We show that on the assumption of the synchrotron radiation for the observed energy range…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hirotsugu Doi , Kentaro Takami , Ryo Yamazaki

In this paper, we model the dynamics and radiation physics of the rarity event GRB 221009A afterglow in detail. By introducing a top-hat jet that propagates in an environment dominated by stellar winds, we explain the publicly available…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-26 Jia Ren , Yun Wang , Lu-Lu Zhang , Zi-Gao Dai

A small fraction of GRBs with available data down to soft X-rays ($\sim0.5$ keV) have been shown to feature a spectral break in the low-energy part ($\sim1-10$ keV) of their prompt emission spectrum. The overall spectral shape is consistent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-12 Ioulia Florou , Maria Petropoulou , Apostolos Mastichiadis

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) comprise of short, bright, energetic flashes of emission from extragalactic sources followed by a longer afterglow phase of decreased brightness. Recent discoveries of very-high-energy (VHE, $\gtrsim 100$ GeV)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-12 Monica Barnard , Soebur Razzaque , Jagdish C. Joshi

The principal paradigm for the prompt emission of gamma-ray bursts invokes diffusive acceleration at shocks internal to the dynamic ultrarelativistic outflow. This paper explores expectations for burst emission spectra arising from shock…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Matthew G. Baring , Matthew L. Braby

We present a leptonic model on the external shock context to describe the high-energy emission of GRB 940217, GRB 941017 and GRB 970217A. We argue that the emission consists of two components, one with a similar duration of the burst, and a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 N. Fraija , M. M. Gonzalez , J. L. Ramirez , R. Sacahui , W. H. Lee

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

Recent LHAASO observations of the prompt emission phase of the brightest-of-all-time GRB 221009A imposes a stringent limit on the flux ratio between the TeV and MeV emissions, $F_{\rm TeV}/F_{\rm MeV}\le 2\times10^{-5}$, during the period…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-21 Cui-Yuan Dai , Xiang-Yu Wang , Ruo-Yu Liu , Bing Zhang

High energy neutrino emission from GRBs is discussed. In this paper, by using the simulation kit GEANT4, we calculate proton cooling efficiency including pion-multiplicity and proton-inelasticity in photomeson production. First, we estimate…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-29 Kohta Murase , Shigehiro Nagataki

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

The prompt emission of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is widely thought to be radiation from accelerated electrons, but an appreciably larger amount of energy could be carried by accelerated protons, particularly if GRBs are the sources of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Katsuaki Asano , Susumu Inoue , Peter Mészáros

The complete high-resolution lightcurves of Swift GRB 080319B present an opportunity for detailed temporal analysis of the prompt optical emission. With a two-component distribution of initial Lorentz factors, we simulate the dynamical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Si-Yao Xu , Zhuo Li

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are believed to launch relativistic jets, which generate prompt emission by internal processes, and produce long-lasting afterglows by driving external shocks into surrounding medium. However, how the jet powers the…

The observed hard TeV gamma-ray spectrum of the nearby gamma-ray burst (GRB) 190829A may challenge the conventional leptonic GRB afterglow model. It has been proposed that an ultra-high-energy (UHE; $\varepsilon^{'}_{\rm p}\sim 10^{20}$ eV)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-24 Jian-Kun Huang , Xiao-Li Huang , Ji-Gui Cheng , Jia Ren , Lu-Lu Zhang , En-Wei Liang

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most energetic explosions in the universe, and their afterglow emission provides an opportunity to probe the physics of relativistic shock waves in an extreme environment. Several key pieces for completing…

The IceCube neutrino telescope has provided upper limits on neutrino emission from gamma ray bursts. These constraints provided by the IceCube detector have been instrumental in investigating the properties of the GRB jet and its emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-16 Chiranjeet Pradhan , Khushboo Sharma , Abhijit Roy , Jagdish C. Joshi

The detection of TeV gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) brought new opportunities for studying the physics of particle acceleration at relativistic shocks. The \hess telescopes recently observed very-high-energy (VHE) emission from a nearby…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-09 B. Theodore Zhang , Kohta Murase , Péter Veres , Péter Mészáros