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The recent simultaneous detection of optical, X-ray and gamma-ray photons from GRB990123 during the burst provides the first broadband multi-wavelength characterization of the burst spectrum and evolution. Here we show that a direct…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. P. Liang , A. Crider , M. Boettcher , I. A. Smith

Recent observations of coherent radiation from the Crab pulsar (Bij et al 2021) suggest the emission is driven by an ultra - relativistic ($\gamma \sim 10^4$), cold plasma flow. A relativistically expanding plasma shell can compress the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-03 Almog Yalinewich , Ue-Li Pen

We consider here a proton-synchrotron model to explain the MAGIC observation of GRB 190114C afterglow in the energy band $0.2 - 1$~TeV, while the X-ray spectra are explained by electron-synchrotron emission. Given the uncertainty of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-02 Hebzibha Isravel , Asaf Pe'er , Damien Begue

Gamma ray bursts (GRB's) often feature subpulses that have a distinctively asymmetric profile -- they rise quickly and decay much more slowly, while their spectrum softens slightly with observer time. It is suggested that these subpulses…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 David Eichler , Hadar Manis

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…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-06-25 H. J. van Eerten , R. A. M. J. Wijers

For the first time, a short gamma-ray burst (GRB) was unambiguously associated with a gravitational wave (GW) observation from a binary neutron star (NS) merger. This allows us to link the details of the central engine properties to GRB…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-22 P. Veres , P. Mészáros , A. Goldstein , N. Fraija , V. Connaughton , E. Burns , R. D. Preece , R. Hamburg , C. A. Wilson-Hodge , M. S. Briggs , D. Kocevski

The Gamma-Ray Bursts - GRBs are one of the most energetic astronomical events in the universe that have not yet an adequate explanation of what kind of mechanism is carried out. This question motivates the astronomical community to do…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-07-05 Camilo Delgado-Correal

Besides light curves and spectra, polarization provides a different powerful tool of studying the $\gamma-$ray burst (GRB) prompt phase. Compared with the time-integrated and energy-integrated polarization, time-resolved and energy-resolved…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-15 Mi-Xiang Lan , Zi-Gao Dai

In Paper I we presented a detailed formulation of the relativistic shocks and synchrotron emission in the context of Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) physics. To see how well this model reproduces the observed characteristics of the GRBs and their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Houri Ziaeepour

I calculate spectral evolution series for pulses of GRBs, in the BATSE spectral range, for continuous particle injection and cooling by synchrotron, inverse Compton, and adiabatic expansion. The hydrodynamic properties of the relativistic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 H. Papathanassiou

Despite more than fifty years of gamma-ray burst (GRB) observations, several questions regarding the origin of the prompt emission, particularly at high energies, remain unresolved. We present a comprehensive analysis of 35 GRBs observed by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-22 Samanta Macera , Biswajit Banerjee , Alessio Mei , Pawan Tiwari , Gor Oganesyan , Marica Branchesi

(abridged)Prompt GRB emission is often interpreted as synchrotron radiation from high-energy electrons accelerated in internal shocks. Fast synchrotron cooling predicts that the photon index below the spectral peak is alpha=-3/2. This…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 F. Daigne , Z. Bosnjak , Guillaume Dubus

The detection of an afterglow, following a gamma-ray burst (GRB), can be described reasonably well by synchrotron emission from a relativistic spherical expanding blast wave, driven by an expanding fireball. We perform detailed calculations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-17 Jonathan Granot , Tsvi Piran , Re'em Sari

X-ray emission can provide a crucial diagnostic of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). We calculate the X-ray and gamma-ray spectra of impulsive acceleration episodes related to GRB pulses. We use the synchrotron shock model (SSM) as a basis of our…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 M. Tavani

Relativistic blast wave models predict the spectrum of the emitted synchrotron radiation. The electrons in the shocked region are heated to a Wien distribution whose ``temperature'' is $1/3$ of the mean electron energy. This energy scale…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 J. I. Katz

Jet precession has previously been proposed to explain the apparently repeating features in the light curves of a few gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). In this {\it Letter}, we further apply the precession model to a bright GRB 220408B by examining…

The spectral properties of a composite thermal emission arising from a relativistic expanding fireball can be remarkably different from the Planck function. We perform a detailed study of such a system to explore the features of the prompt…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-04 Soumya Gupta , Sunder Sahayanathan

Observations of gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglows have long provided the most detailed information about the origin of this spectacular phenomena. The model that is most commonly used to extract physical properties of the event from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-06 Guðlaugur Jóhannesson , Gunnlaugur Björnsson

The recently discovered GRB afterglow is believed to be described reasonably well by synchrotron emission from a slowing down relativistic shell that collides with an external medium. To compare theoretical models with afterglow…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Re'em Sari , Tsvi Piran , Ramesh Narayan

When an emitting spherical shell with a constant Lorentz factor turns off emission abruptly at some radius, its high-latitude emission would obey the relation of $\hat{\alpha}$ (the temporal index) = $2 + \hat{\beta}$ (the spectral index).…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-16 Jin-Jun Geng , Yong-Feng Huang , Zi-Gao Dai