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Starting as highly relativistic collimated jets, gamma-ray burst outflows gradually decelerate and become non-relativistic spherical blast waves. Although detailed analytical solutions describing the afterglow emission received by an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Hendrik van Eerten , Weiqun Zhang , Andrew MacFadyen

We carry out a numerical hydrodynamical modeling for the evolution of a relativistic collimated outflow, as it interacts with the surrounding medium, and calculate the light-curve resulting from synchrotron emission of the shocked fluid.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Pawan Kumar , Jonathan Granot

Blackbody-dominated (BBD) gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are events characterized by long durations and the presence of a significant thermal component following the prompt emission, as well as by the absence of a typical afterglow. GRB 101225A is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Carlos F. Cuesta-Martínez , Miguel-Ángel Aloy , Petar Mimica , Christina C. Thöne , Antonio de Ugarte-Postigo

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most luminous astrophysical transients, known to be associated with core collapse of massive stars or mergers of two compact objects such as two neutron stars. They are followed by multi-wavelength afterglow…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-01 Yihan Wang , Connery Chen , Bing Zhang

We present a study of the intermediate regime between ultra-relativistic and nonrelativistic flow for gamma-ray burst afterglows. The hydrodynamics of spherically symmetric blast waves is numerically calculated using the AMRVAC adaptive…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-12-03 H. J. van Eerten , K. Leventis , Z. Meliani , R. A. M. J. Wijers

We have found that the conventional generic dynamical model for gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) cannot reproduce the Sedov solution in the non-relativistic limit. Based on our refined generic dynamical model, we investigate afterglows from jetted…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. F. Huang

The ultra-relativistic outflows powering gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) acquire angular structure through their interaction with external material. They are often characterized by a compact, nearly uniform narrow core (with half-opening angle…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-06 Paz Beniamini , Ramandeep Gill , Jonathan Granot

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

Numerical jet simulations serve a valuable role in calculating gamma-ray burst afterglow emission beyond analytical approximations. Here we present the results of high resolution 2D simulations of decelerating relativistic jets performed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 H. J. van Eerten , A. I. MacFadyen , W. Zhang

The dynamics of GRB jets during the afterglow phase is most reliably and accurately modelled using hydrodynamic simulations. All published simulations, however, have considered only a uniform external medium, while a stratified external…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Fabio De Colle , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz , Jonathan Granot , Diego Lopez-Camara

{\it Fermi}/GBM (Gamma-ray Burst Monitor) and INTEGRAL (the International Gamma-ray Astrophysics Laboratory) reported the detection of the $\gamma$-ray counterpart, GRB 170817A, to the LIGO (Light Interferometer Gravitational-wave…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-16 Gavin P Lamb , Shiho Kobayashi

As the most energetic explosions in the Universe, gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are commonly believed to be generated by relativistic jets. Recent observational evidence suggests that the jets producing GRBs are likely to have a structured…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-01 Jin-Da Li , He Gao , Shunke Ai , Wei-Hua Lei

Context. Gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglows originate from the interaction between the relativistic ejecta and the surrounding medium. Consequently, their properties depend on several aspects: radiation mechanisms, relativistic shock…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-03 M. Marongiu , C. Guidorzi , G. Stratta , A. Gomboc , N. Jordana-Mitjans , S. Dichiara , S. Kobayashi , D. Kopac , C. G. Mundell

The broadband afterglow of Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is usually believed to originate from the synchrotron radiation of electrons accelerated by the external shock of relativistic jets. Therefore, the jet structure should have a significant…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-03 Jin-Da Li , He Gao , Shunke Ai , Wei-Hua Lei

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are luminous stellar explosions characterized by the ejection of relativistic jets. This work proposes a novel paradigm to study these GRB jets. By analyzing the timing information of prompt pulses and X-ray flares,…

We analyze in detail the hydrodynamics and afterglow emission of an ultrarelativistic blast wave when it expands in a density-jump medium. Such a medium is likely to appear in the vicinity of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) associated with massive…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Z. G. Dai , T. Lu

In this work, we have modeled the hydrodynamic evolution of the GRBs fireball in violent interaction with the external medium (the ISM) surrounding the burst source by assuming a power law distribution of the accelerated relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-22 E. Zouaoui , M. Fouka , S. Ouichaoui

A strong correlation is reported between gamma-ray burst (GRB) pulse lags and afterglow jet-break times for the set of bursts (seven) with known redshifts, luminosities, pulse lags, and jet-break times. This may be a valuable clue toward…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jay D. Salmonson

Gravitational-wave detected neutron star mergers provide an opportunity to investigate short gamma-ray burst (GRB) jet afterglows without the GRB trigger. Here we show that the post-peak afterglow decline can distinguish between an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-22 Gavin P Lamb , Ilya Mandel , Lekshmi Resmi

The jet structure of short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) has been controversial after the detection of GRB 170817A as the electromagnetic counterparts to the gravitational wave event GW170817. Different authors use different jet structures for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-20 Kazuya Takahashi , Kunihito Ioka