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Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have been considered as potential very high-energy photon emitters due to the large amount of energy released as well as the strong magnetic fields involved in their jets. However, the detection of TeV photons is not…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-01 M. M. González , D. Avila Rojas , A. Pratts , S Hernández-Cadena , N. Fraija , R. Alfaro , Y. Pérez Araujo , J. A. Montes

The detection by the LHAASO Collaboration of the gamma-ray burst GRB 221009A at redshift $z = 0.151$ with energies up to $(13-18) \, \rm TeV$ challenges conventional physics. Photons emitted with energies above $10 \, \rm TeV$ at this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-31 Giorgio Galanti , Lara Nava , Marco Roncadelli , Fabrizio Tavecchio , Giacomo Bonnoli

The recent detection by LHAASO up to 18 TeV of the gamma ray burst GRB 221009A at redshift $z = 0.151$ challenges standard physics because of the strong absorption due to the extragalactic background light (EBL) for photons with energies…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-30 Giorgio Galanti , Lara Nava , Marco Roncadelli , Fabrizio Tavecchio , Giacomo Bonnoli

Very-high-energy (VHE; $E \gtrsim 100$ GeV) gamma rays are expected to experience strong attenuation during cosmological propagation due to electron-positron pair production on the extragalactic background light (EBL). Recent observations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-03 Longhua Qin , Jiancheng Wang , Chuyuan Yang , Huaizhen Li , Quangui Gao , Ju Ma , Ao Wang , Weiwei Na , Ming Zhou , Zunli Yuan , Chunxia Gu , Guangbo Long

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are among the most luminous transients in the Universe and constitute prime targets for multimessenger studies, particularly in connection with gravitational-wave events. The detection of very-high-energy (TeV)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-26 Nissim Fraija , Jorge Alexis Montes , Sara Fraija-Castellanos , María Magdalena González

The LHAASO Collaboration detected the gamma ray burst GRB 221009A at energies above $500 \, {\rm GeV}$ with a tail extending up to $18 \, \rm TeV$, whose spectral analysis has presently been performed up to $7 \, \rm TeV$ for the lower…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-22 Giorgio Galanti , Lara Nava , Marco Roncadelli , Fabrizio Tavecchio , Giacomo Bonnoli

The detection of the hyper-bright gamma-ray burst (GRB) 221009A enables us to explore the nature of GRB emission and the origin of very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-rays. We analyze the ${\it Fermi}$-LAT data and investigate GeV-TeV emission in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-18 B. Theodore Zhang , Kohta Murase , Kunihito Ioka , Deheng Song , Chengchao Yuan , Péter Mészáros

We propose a novel explanation for the 18 TeV gamma ray from GRB 221009A observed by LHAASO. High-energy neutrinos are converted into axion-like particles (ALPs) via their interaction with the cosmic neutrino background. Subsequently, ALPs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-21 Nicolás Bernal , Yasaman Farzan , Alexei Yu. Smirnov

The extraordinarily bright gamma-ray burst GRB 221009A was observed by a large number of observatories, from radio frequencies to gamma-rays. Of particular interest are the reported observations of photon-like air showers of very high…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-17 Pierluca Carenza , M. C. David Marsh

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 detection of gamma-ray burst GRB~221009A has attracted significant attention due to its record brightness and the first-ever detection of multi-TeV $\gamma$-rays from a GRB. Located at redshift $z=0.151$, this event is relatively nearby…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-14 Hassan Abdalla

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

The LHAASO collaboration recently reported the measurement of the gamma-ray spectra of GRB 221009A, which is the brightest burst ever, covering an energy range from 0.3 $\mathrm{TeV}$ to about 10 $\mathrm{TeV}$. Based on the observation, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-17 Lin-Qing Gao , Xiao-Jun Bi , Jun Li , Run-Min Yao , Peng-Fei Yin

The tera-electronvolt (TeV) light curve of gamma-ray burst (GRB) 221009A shows an unprecedentedly rapid rise at the beginning epoch. This phenomenon could be due to the strong absorption of photons and electrons within the emitting region.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-08 Jun-Yi Shen , Yuan-Chuan Zou , A. M. Chen , Duan-Yuan Gao

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are predicted in some well-motivated theories beyond the Standard Model. The TeV gamma-rays from active galactic nuclei (AGN) suffer attenuation by the pair production interactions with the cosmic background…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-11 Guangbo Long , Siyu Chen , Shuo Xu , Hong-Hao Zhang

The detection of exceptionally high-energy {\gamma}-photons (up to 18 TeV) from GRB 221009A by the LHAASO Collaboration challenges conventional physics. Photon-axion-like particle (ALP) oscillations have been proposed to explain this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-24 Antonios Valamontes , Emmanuel Markoulakis , Ioannis Adamopoulos

As a potential consequence of Lorentz invariance violation~(LIV), threshold anomalies open a window to study LIV. Recently the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory~(LHAASO) reported that more than 5000 photons from GRB 221009A have…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-14 Hao Li , Bo-Qiang Ma

The detection of very high-energy (VHE) afterglow emission of the gamma-ray burst (GRB) 221009A by the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) provides a unique opportunity to probe particle acceleration in relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-09 Xing-Wei Gong , Ruo-Yu Liu , Ze-Lin Zhang , Katsuaki Asano , Martin Lemoine

GRB 221009A was the brightest gamma-ray burst ever detected on Earth. In its early afterglow phase, photons with exceptional energies above 10 TeV were observed by LHAASO, and a photon-like air shower above 200 TeV was detected by Carpet-2.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-12 Sergey Troitsky

Recent observations of the TeV gamma-ray spectra of the two closest active galactic nuclei (AGNs), Markarian 501 (Mrk 501) and Markarian 421 (Mrk 421), by the Whipple and HEGRA collaborations have stimulated efforts to estimate or limit the…

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