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The jet opening angle of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is an important parameter for determining the characteristics of the progenitor, and the information contained in the opening angle gives insight into the relativistic outflow and the total…

Using the resultant profiles from 3D hydrodynamic simulations of relativistic jets interacting with neutron star merger wind ejecta, we show how the inhomogeneity of energy and velocity {across the jet surface profile} can alter the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-31 Gavin P Lamb , Lorenzo Nativi , Stephan Rosswog , D. Alexander Kann , Andrew Levan , Christoffer Lundman , Nial Tanvir

We have found that the conventional generic dynamical model for gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) cannot reproduce the Sedov solution in the non-relativistic limit. Based on our refined generic dynamical model, we investigate afterglows from jetted…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. F. Huang

We present a comprehensive multi-wavelength study of GRB 260310A / SN 2026fgk, a nearby ($z=0.153$), long-duration gamma-ray burst (GRB) with an exceptionally underluminous prompt $\gamma$-ray emission and a Comptonized spectrum. It is…

Beaming of relativistic ejecta in GRBs has been postulated by many authors in order to reduce the total GRB energy, thus it is very important to look for the observational evidence of beaming. Rhoads (1999) has pointed out that the dynamics…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 D. M. Wei , T. Lu

The energy requirements of gamma ray bursts have in past been poorly constrained because of three major uncertainties: The distances to bursts, the degree of burst beaming, and the efficiency of gamma ray production. The first of these has…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 James E. Rhoads

Recent observational and theoretical studies have raised the possibility that the collimated outflows in gamma-ray burst (GRB) sources have two distinct components: a narrow (opening half-angle $\theta_{\rm n}$), highly relativistic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Fang Peng , Arieh Konigl , Jonathan Granot

Afterglow jets are Rayleigh-Taylor unstable and therefore turbulent during the early part of their deceleration. There are also several processes which actively cool the jet. In this letter, we demonstrate that if cooling significantly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Paul Duffell , Andrew MacFadyen

The electromagnetic emission and the afterglow observations of the binary neutron star merger event GW 170817A confirmed the association of the merger with a short gamma-ray burst (sGRB) harboring a narrow ($5${\deg}-$10${\deg}) and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-08 Matteo Pais , Tsvi Piran , Kenta Kiuchi , Masaru Shibata

The connection between Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) and their afterglows is currently not well understood. Afterglow models of synchrotron emission generated by external shocks in the GRB fireball model predict emission detectable in the…

The long-term evolution of relativistic jets in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), particularly from days to months post-burst, remains a fundamental puzzle in astrophysics. Here, we report our very long baseline interferometry observation of the…

Achromatic breaks in afterglow light curves of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) arise naturally if the product of the jet's Lorentz factor \gamma and opening angle \Theta_j satisfies (\gamma \Theta_j) >> 1 at the onset of the afterglow phase, i.e.,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-03-28 Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Ramesh Narayan , Jonathan C. McKinney

We report the detection of linear polarization in the radio afterglow of GRB 260310A, representing the first centimeter-wavelength polarization detection of a gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglow and the first measurement of Faraday rotation in…

If gamma ray bursts are highly collimated, radiating into only a small fraction of the sky, the energy requirements of each event may be reduced by several (up to 4 - 6) orders of magnitude, and the event rate increased correspondingly. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 James E. Rhoads

Recent detections of very-high-energy (VHE; $\gtrsim 100~{\rm GeV}$) emission from GRB afterglows, most notably the unprecedented brightness of GRB~221009A observed by LHAASO, reveal components beyond the standard electron synchrotron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-27 T. Mondal , S. Razzaque , Jagdish C. Joshi , S. Majumder , D. Bose

Gamma-ray Bursts (GRBs) generate powerful relativistic jets that inject a large amount of energy into their surrounding environment, producing blast waves that accelerate particles to high energies. The GRB afterglow radiation provides a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-24 P. Tiwari , B. Banerjee , D. Miceli , G. Oganesyan , A. Ierardi , S. Macera , M. Branchesi , L. Nava , S. Mohnani , S. Agarwal , A. Shukla

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

GRB 140903A, a short duration $\gamma-$ray burst (SGRB) detected by {\it Swift}, is characterized by its long-lasting radio emission among SGRBs. In addition to the $\sim 10^{6}$ s radio afterglow emission, the afterglow of GRB 140903A…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-25 Shuai Zhang , Zhi-Ping Jin , Yuan-Zhu Wang , Da-Ming Wei

In order to constrain the broad-band spectral energy distribution of the afterglow of GRB 100621A, dedicated observations were performed in the optical/near-infrared with the 7-channel "Gamma-Ray Burst Optical and Near-infrared Detector"…

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