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Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are the brightest sources in the universe, emit mostly in the hard X-ray energy band and have been detected at redshifts up to ~8.1. Thus, they are in principle very powerful probes for cosmology. I shortly review…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-11 L. Amati

Long $\rm \gamma$-ray bursts (GRBs) are produced by the dissipation of ultra-relativistic jets launched by newly-born black holes after the collapse of massive stars. Right after the luminous and highly variable $\gamma$-ray emission, the…

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

GRB 220627A, detected by Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM), shows two episodes of gamma-ray emission, which are separated by a {$\sim$700} s long quiescent phase. Due to similar temporal shapes and spectra in the two episodes, GRB 220627A…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-29 Yi-Yun Huang , Hai-Ming Zhang , Kai Yan , Ruo-Yu Liu , Xiang-Yu Wang

GRB~160821B is the only short GRB detected to date at very high energy (VHE, $\gtrsim 100$ GeV). At a redshift $z=0.161$, it was detected by MAGIC telescopes approximately four hours since the trigger. VHE dataset was complied with the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-02 Ankur Ghosh , Monica Barnard , Jagdish C. Joshi , Soebur Razzaque

Gamma-ray Bursts (GRBs) are relativistic cosmological beacons of transient high energy radiation whose afterglows span the electromagnetic spectrum. Theoretical expectations of correlated neutrino and/or gravitational wave (GW) emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-02-19 Michael Stamatikos , Neil Gehrels , Francis Halzen , Peter Meszaros , Peter W. A. Roming

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) were first detected thanks to their prompt emission, which was the only information available for decades. In 2010, while the high-energy prompt emission remains the main tool for the detection and the first…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-19 Jean-Luc Atteia , Michel Boër

Since 1997 the afterglow of gamma-ray bursting sources (GRBs) has occasionally been detected in the radio, as well in other wavelengths bands. In particular, the interesting and unusual gamma-ray burst GRB980425, thought to be related to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-13 Kurt W. Weiler , Nino Panagia , Marcos J. Montes

Cusps of superconducting strings can serve as GRB engines. A powerful beamed pulse of electromagnetic radiation from a cusp produces a jet of accelerated particles, whose propagation is terminated by the shock responsible for GRB. A single…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-15 V. Berezinsky , B. Hnatyk , A. Vilenkin

The observations of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) such as 980425, 031203 and 060218, with luminosities much lower than those of other classic bursts, lead to the definition of a new class of GRBs -- low-luminosity GRBs. The nature of the outflow…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-02-11 Hao-Ning He , Xiang-Yu Wang , Yun-Wei Yu , Peter Meszaros

Gamma-ray Bursts (GRBs) are the most powerful explosions known, capable of outshining the rest of gamma-ray sky during their short-lived prompt emission. Their cosmological nature makes them the best tool to explore the final stages in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-20 A. Cucchiara , T. Totani , N. R. Tanvir

Two types of Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are observed: short duration hard spectrum GRBs and long duration soft spectrum GRBs. For many years long GRBs were the focus of intense research while the lack of observational data limited the study of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 Ehud Nakar

Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are thought to originate at cosmological distances from the most powerful explosions in the Universe. If GRBs are not beamed then the distribution of their number as a function of Gamma-ray flux implies that they…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Abraham Loeb , Rosalba Perna

The mechanism that causes the prompt-emission episode of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is still widely debated despite there being thousands of prompt detections. The favoured internal shock model relates this emission to synchrotron radiation.…

The statistical distribution of energies among particles responsible for long Gamma Ray Burst (GRB) emission is analyzed in light of recent results of the Fermi Observatory. The allsky flux, $F_{\gamma}$, recorded by the Gamma Ray Burst…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-01-27 David Eichler , Dafne Guetta , Martin Pohl

We report the discovery of radio afterglow emission from the gamma-ray burst GRB 090423, which exploded at a redshift of 8.3, making it the object with the highest known redshift in the Universe. By combining our radio measurements with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Poonam Chandra , Dale A. Frail , Derek Fox , Shrinivas Kulkarni , Edo BErger , S. Bradley Cenko , Douglas C. -J. Bock , Fiona Harrison , Mansi Kasliwal

GRB 131231A was detected by the Large Area Telescope onboard Fermi Space Gamma-ray Telescope. The high energy gamma-ray ($> 100$ MeV) afterglow emission spectrum is $F_\nu \propto \nu^{-0.54\pm0.15}$ in the first $\sim 1300$ s after the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Bin Liu , Wei Chen , Yun-Feng Liang , Bei Zhou , Hao-Ning He , Pak-Hin Thomas Tam , Lang Shao , Zhi-Ping Jin , Yi-Zhong Fan , Da-Ming Wei

Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) - short bursts of 100-1MeV photons arriving from random directions in the sky are probably the most relativistic objects discovered so far. Still, somehow they did not attract the attention of the relativistic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-23 Tsvi Piran

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are bright flashes of gamma-rays coming from the cosmos. They occur roughly once per day, last typically 10s of seconds and are the most luminous events in the universe. More than three decades after their discovery,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-09-03 Neil Gehrels , Peter Meszaros

The origin of magnetic fields that permeate the blast waves of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is a long-standing problem. The present paper argues that in four GRBs revealing extended emission at >100 MeV, with follow-up in the radio, optical and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Martin Lemoine , Zhuo Li , Xiang-Yu Wang