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A study of a set of well-isolated pulses in Long and Intermediate gamma ray burst light curves indicates that simple pulse models having smooth and monotonic pulse rise and decay regions are inadequate. Examining the residuals of fits of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Jon Hakkila , Robert D. Preece

The energy spectra of pulses of GRBs are modeled for synchrotron and multiple self-inverse Compton scatterings from a population of thermal and non-thermal $e^-$s. The contribution from pairs that result from annihilation is also taken into…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Papathanassiou

Growing evidence indicates that the synchrotron radiation mechanism may be responsible for the prompt emission of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). In the synchrotron radiation scenario, the electron energy spectrum of the prompt emission is diverse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-21 Kuan Liu , Da-Bin Lin , Jing Li , Yu-Fei Li , Rui-Jing Lu , En-Wei Liang

We explain the results of Yu et al. (2015b) of the novel sharpness angle measurement to a large number of spectra obtained from the Fermi gamma-ray burst monitor. The sharpness angle is compared to the values obtained from various…

Under the steady state condition, the spectrum of electrons is investigated by solving the continuity equation under the complex radiation of both the synchrotron and Compton processes. The resulted GRB spectrum is a broken power law in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-13 Yunguo Jiang , Shao-Ming Hu , Xu Chen , Kai Li , Di-Fu Guo , Yu-Tong Li , Huai-Zhen Li , Hai-Nan Lin , Zhe Chang

The study of high-energy gamma-ray emission from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) involves complex synchrotron radiation and synchrotron self-Compton scattering (SSC) mechanisms with multiple parameters exhibiting a wide distribution. Recent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-25 Yu-Hua Yao , Fang-Sheng Min , Shi Chen , Yi-Qing Guo

Using high-quality, broad-band afterglow data for GRB 091127, we investigate the validity of the synchrotron fireball model for gamma-ray bursts, and infer physical parameters of the ultra-relativistic outflow. We used multi-wavelength…

We discuss here constraints on the particle acceleration models from the observed gamma-ray bursts spectra. The standard synchrotron shock model assumes that some fraction of available energy is given instantaneously to the electrons which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 Juri Poutanen , Boris E. Stern

A large fraction of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) shows a plateau phase during the X-ray afterglow emission, whose physical origin is still debated. In this work we define a sample of 30 GRBs with simultaneous X-ray and optical data during and…

The prompt emission mechanism of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is still unclear, and the time-resolved spectral analysis of GRBs is a powerful tool for studying their underlying physical processes. We performed a detailed time-resolved spectral…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-29 Wan-Kai Wang , Wei Xie , Zhi-Fu Gao , Shuo Xiao , Ai-Jun Dong , Bin Zhang , Qi-Jun Zhi

Synchrotron radiation from accelerated electrons above the photosphere of a relativistic ejecta is a natural candidate for the dominant process for the prompt GRB emission. There is however a tension between the predicted low-energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-29 Frédéric Daigne , Željka Bošnjak

Time-resolved spectroscopy is performed on eight bright, long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) dominated by single emission pulses that were observed with the {\it Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope}. Fitting the prompt radiation of GRBs by empirical…

We discuss the prompt emission of Gamma-Ray Bursts in different spectral energy bands. First, we suggest that a three-part synchrotron emission model is a good description of the ~20 keV - 1 MeV gamma-ray emission of GRBs. We show that this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Nicole M. Lloyd-Ronning

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

Synchrotron circular polarization of a non-thermal power-law electron distribution in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) has been studied. However, some numerical simulations have shown that the resulting distribution of electrons is a combination of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-29 Kangfa Cheng , Jirong Mao , Xiaohong Zhao , Hongbang Liu , Zhegeng Chen , Gaojin Yu , Zhifu Chen

Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) afterglows are well described by synchrotron emission from relativistic blast waves expanding into an external medium. The blast wave is believed to amplify the magnetic field and accelerate the electrons into a power…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Jonathan Granot , Re'em Sari

The understanding of the prompt $\gamma$-ray spectra of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is of great importance to correctly interpreting the physical mechanisms that produce the underlying event as well as the structure of the relativistic jet from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 J. Michael Burgess

It has been suggested that the prompt emission in gamma-ray bursts consists of several components giving rise to the observed spectral shape. Here we examine a sample of the 8 brightest, single pulsed {\it Fermi} bursts whose spectra are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-27 S. Iyyani , F. Ryde , J. M. Burgess , A. Pe'er , D. B\' egué

Despite the great variation in the light curves of Gamma Ray Burst (GRB) prompt emission, their spectral energy distribution is generally curved and broadly peaked. In particular, their spectral evolution is well described by the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 F. Massaro , J. E. Grindlay

Polarization can serve as a probe of the radiation mechanism and magnetic field (MF) configuration in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). In the case of constant MF, the synchrotron polarization in the prompt phase of GRBs has been widely studied. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-30 K. F. Cheng , X. H. Zhao , J. M. Bai