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Ground based extensive air showers arrays can observe GRBs in the 1-1000 GeV energy range using the "single particle" techique. The sensitivity to detect a GRB as a function of the burst parameters and the detector characteristics are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 Silvia Vernetto

An intriguing possibility to partially circumvent extragalactic background light (EBL) absorption in very-high-energy (VHE) observations of blazars is that photons convert into axion-like particles (ALPs) $\gamma \to a$ inside or close to a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-09-11 F. Tavecchio , G. Galanti , M. Roncadelli

Recently an extraordinarily bright gamma-ray burst, GRB 221009A, was observed by several facilities covering the whole electromagnetic spectrum. Gamma rays with energies up to 18 TeV were detected, as well as a possible photon with 251 TeV.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-27 Rafael Alves Batista

A gamma-ray burst, named GRB 221009A, occurred on 9 October 2022 and is the brightest ever observed GRB, whose frequency is now estimated as once in 10,000 years. This GRB was reported to be observed from many space missions, VLF receivers,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-18 Pranali Thakur , Gauri Datar , Geeta Vichare , Selvaraj Chelliah

From gamma-ray burst (GRB) 221009A, very high-energy photons were detected: >10 TeV with LHAASO and >100 TeV with Carpet-3. Such energetic photons are expected to be absorbed via electron-positron pair production on their way to the Earth.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-23 P. S. Satunin , S. V. Troitsky

Detection of spectral line in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is importance for studying GRB physics, as it provides insights into the composition and physical conditions of the GRB environment. However, progress in detecting X-ray or gamma-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-10 Lu-Yao Jiang , Yun Wang , Yu-Jia Wei , Da-Ming Wei , Xiang Li , Hao-Ning He , Jia Ren , Zhao-Qiang Shen , Zhi-Ping Jin

Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are the most energetic electromagnetic explosions in the universe. Recently, the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) reported the breakthrough observation of GRB 221009A with gamma-ray energies beyond…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-10 Yunlei Huang , Sujie Lin , Soebur Razzaque , Lili Yang , Zijie Huang

High-energy photons emitted from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are subject to pair-production interactions with lower energy photons, leading to an effective optical depth. In this Letter, we estimate the opacity resulting from photon fields…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-11-02 Rudy C. Gilmore , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

It has been reported that the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) observed very high energy photons from GRB 221009A, with the highest energy reaching 18~TeV. We find that observation of such high energy photons is quite…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-07 Hao Li , Bo-Qiang Ma

Some gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have an afterglow in the tera-electronvolt (TeV) band, but the early onset of this afterglow has not been observed. We report observations with the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory of the bright GRB…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-11 LHAASO Collaboration

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) offer a powerful probe of the ionized Universe through their dispersion measures (DM). While a significant fraction of the DM arises from the intergalactic medium (IGM), the contributions from the host galaxy and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-13 Gunalan Muthusami , Gopal Kashyap

The axion-like particles $a$ can be produced in the Sun via the process of $p + D \to {}^3{\rm He} +a$, with mass up to 5.5 MeV. The photons in the subsequent decay $a \to \gamma\gamma$ can deviate significantly from the Sun, or even from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-21 Yu-Cheng Qiu , Yongchao Zhang

Axion-photon oscillation effect provides a possible explanation for the presence of very-high-energy (VHE) $\gamma$-ray signals from distant sources. In this work, we propose a model-dependent method to select possible sources that may give…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-14 Yu-Chong Chen , Siyu Chen , Wei-Cong Huang , Qing Yang , Hong-Hao Zhang

We present a detailed computation of the expected rate for Geomagnetic Conversion of Solar Axions to X-rays (GECOSAX) along the orbit of an x-ray satellite. We use realistic satellite orbits and propagation in time. A realistic model for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hooman Davoudiasl , Patrick Huber

Polarization measurements of thermal radiation from magnetic white dwarf (MWD) stars have been proposed as a probe of axion-photon mixing. The radiation leaving the surface of the MWD is unpolarized, but if low-mass axions exist then…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-08 Christopher Dessert , David Dunsky , Benjamin R. Safdi

We consider a mechanism which allows to decrease attenuation of high energy gamma ray flux from gamma ray burst GRB 221009A. The mechanism is based on the existence of a heavy $m_N\sim0.1\,\mathrm{MeV}$ mostly sterile neutrino $N$ which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-26 Alexei Y. Smirnov , Andreas Trautner

We derive a strong bound on the axion-photon coupling $g_{a\gamma}$ from the analysis of a sample of 39 Galactic Globular Clusters. As recognized long ago, the R parameter, i.e. the number ratio of stars in horizontal over red giant branch…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Adrian Ayala , Inma Dominguez , Maurizio Giannotti , Alessandro Mirizzi , Oscar Straniero

Recent astrophysical transient Swift J1913.1+1946 may be associated with the $\gamma$-ray burst GRB 221009A. The redshift of this event is $z\simeq 0.151$. Very high-energy $\gamma$-rays (up to 18 TeV) followed the transient and were…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-23 Shyam Balaji , Maura E. Ramirez-Quezada , Joseph Silk , Yongchao Zhang

Axion Like Particles (ALPs) can be produced in Gamma Ray Bursts, altering the polarization of the electromagnetic emission in these events. For the first time, we derive bounds on the axion-photon coupling from polarization measurements of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-10 Boris Betancourt Kamenetskaia , Nissim Fraija , Gonzalo Herrera