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In the external shock model, gamma-ray burst (GRB) emissions are produced by the energization and deceleration of a thin relativistic blast wave due to its interactions with the circumburst medium (CBM). We study the physical properties of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Charles D. Dermer , Markus Boettcher , J. Chiang

An extreme Kerr black hole (BH) surrounded by a precessing disk is invoked to explain the light curves of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) based on the coexistence of the Blandford-Znajek (BZ) and the magnetic coupling (MC) processes. The overall…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-16 W. H. Lei , D. X. Wang , B. P. Gong , C. Y. Huang

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) as the most energetic explosions in the modern universe have been studied over half a century, but the physics of the particle acceleration and radiation responsible for their observed spectral behaviors are still…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-22 Cheng-Feng Peng , Rui-Jing Lu , Wen-Qiang Liang , Zhe-geng Chen

We carry out a systematical study of the spectral lag properties of 50 single-pulsed Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) detected by Fermi/GBM. By dividing the light curves into multiple consecutive energy channels we provide a new measurement of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-09 Lang Shao , Bin-Bin Zhang , Fu-Ri Wang , Xue-Feng Wu , Ye-Hao Cheng , Xi Zhang , Bang-Yao Yu , Bao-Jia Xi , Xue Wang , Huan-Xue Feng , Meng Zhang , Dong Xu

Most of proposed models of cosmological gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are associated to gravitational collapses of massive stars, and hence evolution of the GRB rate, which is crucially important in GRB intensity distribution analysis, is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tomonori TOTANI

Fireball model of the gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) predicts generation of numerous internal shocks, which efficiently accelerate charged particles and generate relatively small-scale stochastic magnetic and electric fields. The accelerated…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Gregory D. Fleishman , Fedor A. Urtiev

Gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglows are well described by synchrotron emission originating from the interaction between a relativistic blast wave and the external medium surrounding the GRB progenitor. We introduce a code to reconstruct…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-02 H. J. van Eerten , R. A. M. J. Wijers

The properties of the spectral evolution during the prompt emission phase of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), which are closely related to the radiation mechanism (synchrotron or photosphere), are still a subject of debate. Two spectral evolution…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-21 Liang Li

The emission mechanism during the prompt phase in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) can be investigated through correlations between spectral properties. Here, we revisit the correlation relating the instantaneous flux, $F$, and the photon index…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-16 Felix Ryde , Hoi-Fung Yu , Hüsne Dereli-Bégué , Christoffer Lundman , Asaf Pe'er , Liang Li

The prompt emission of most gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) typically exhibits a non-thermal Band component. The synchrotron radiation in the popular internal shock model is generally put forward to explain such a non-thermal component. However,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-17 Kai Wang , Zi-Gao Dai

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are cosmological explosions which carry valuable information from the distant past of the expanding universe. One of the greatest discoveries in modern cosmology is the finding of the accelerated expansion of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-15 Rupal Basak , A. R. Rao

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) show a dramatic pulse structure that requires bulk relativistic motion, but whose physical origin has remained murky. We focus on a hot, magnetized jet that is emitted by a black hole and interacts with a confining…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-06-23 Christopher Thompson , Ramandeep Gill

Using an \emph{empirical} description of a prompt GRB pulse, we analyze the individual pulses of all Fermi/GBM GRBs with known redshifts, till July 2009. This description is simultaneous in time and energy and allows one to determine the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-07-10 Rupal Basak , A. R. Rao

In recent years, our understanding of gamma-ray bursts (GRB) prompt emission has been revolutionized, due to a combination of new instruments, new analysis methods and novel ideas. In this review, I describe the most recent observational…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-23 Asaf Pe'er

We present a concurrent fitting of spectra and light curves of the whole population of detected gamma-ray pulsars. Using a synchro-curvature model we compare our theoretical output with the observational data published in the Third Fermi…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-08 Daniel Íñiguez-Pascual , Diego F. Torres , Daniele Viganò

We propose a model for the spectral formation of Gamma Ray Burst (GRB) prompt emission, where the phenomenological Band's function is usually applied to describe the GRB prompt emission. We suggest that the GRB prompt emission is mainly a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Lev Titarchuk , Ruben Farinelli , Filippo Frontera , Lorenzo Amati

This work is a continuation of a previous effort (Panaitescu 2019) to study the cooling of relativistic electrons through radiation (synchrotron and self-Compton) emission and adiabatic losses, with application to the spectra and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-26 A. D. Panaitescu , W. T. Vestrand

Although the physical origin of prompt emission in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) remains inconclusive, previous studies have considered the synchrotron radiation of relativistic electrons as a promising mechanism. These works usually adopted a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-22 Kuan Liu , Da-Bin Lin , Kai Wang , Li Zhou , Xiang-Gao Wang , En-Wei Liang

The emission processes active in the highly relativistic jets of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) remain unknown. In this paper we propose a new measure to describe spectra: the width of the $EF_E$ spectrum, a quantity dependent only on finding a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-01-20 Magnus Axelsson , Luis Borgonovo

Aims: Drawing an analogy with Active Galactic Nuclei, we investigate the one-zone SSC model of Gamma Ray Bursts afterglows in the presence of electron injection and cooling both by synchrotron and SSC losses. Methods: We solve the spatially…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 M. Petropoulou , A. Mastichiadis
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