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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

Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) are the most explosive events after the big bang: their energy output corresponds to a sizeable fraction of a solar mass entirely converted into energy in a few seconds. Although many questions about their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Ghisellini

Highly relativistic jets from merger and accretion induced collapse of compact stellar objects, which may produce the cosmological gamma ray bursts (GRBs), are also very efficient and powerful cosmic ray accelerators. The expected…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Arnon Dar

The origin of the diffuse extragalactic, high-energy gamma-ray background (EGRB) filling the Universe remains unknown. The spectrum of this extragalactic radiation, as measured by the EGRET on-board CGRO, is well-fit by a power law across…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Caleb A. Scharf , Reshmi Mukherjee

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most violent explosions in the universe, seen primarily as bright, short flashes of gamma-rays. Long GRBs are most likely associated with the violent death of a very massive star. They are thus believed to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-25 Markus Böttcher Lenté Dreyer

The number of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) detected at high energies ($\sim\,0.1-100$ GeV) has seen a rapid increase over the last decade, thanks to observations from the Fermi-Large Area Telescope. The improved statistics and quality of data…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-17 Lara Nava

Afterglow radiation in gamma-ray bursts (GRB), extending from the radio band to GeV energies, is produced as a result of the interaction between the relativistic jet and the ambient medium. Although in general the origin of the emission is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-25 Davide Miceli , Lara Nava

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are widely suggested as potential sources of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs). The kinetic energy of the jets dissipates, leading to the production of an enormous amount of $\gamma$-ray photons and possibly also…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-17 Xing-Fu Zhang , Ruo-Yu Liu , Hai-Ming Zhang , Yi-Yun Huang , B. Theodore Zhang , Xiang-Yu Wang

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

Because of the limited size of the satellite-borne instruments, it has not been possible to observe the flux of gamma ray bursts (GRB) beyond GeV energy. We here show that it is possible to detect the GRB radiation of TeV energy and above,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-19 J. Alvarez-Muniz , F. Halzen

This is a short report on the preliminary findings of the gamma ray burst (GRB) working group for the white paper on the status and future of very high energy (VHE; >50 GeV) gamma-ray astronomy. The white paper discusses the status of past…

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) originate from explosions at cosmological distances, generating collimated jets. GRB 221009A, exploded on 9 October 2022, has been established as the brightest GRB to date. Its bright and long emission was…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-30 Arnau Aguasca-Cabot , Susumu Inoue , Monica Seglar-Arroyo , Kenta Terauchi , Pol Bordas , Marc Ribó

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are among the most powerful explosive events in the universe. LHAASO recently observed the most luminous one: GRB 221009A, and unveiled its TeV light curve. The light curve exhibits a distinct jet break at around 670…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-03 Lin Zhou , Yuan-Chuan Zou

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are flashes of high-energy radiation arising from energetic cosmic explosions. Bursts of long (>2 s) duration are produced by the core-collapse of massive stars, those of short (< 2 s) duration by the merger of two…

The recent detection of TeV photons from two gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), GRB 190114C and GRB 180720B, has opened a new window for multi-messenger and multi-wavelength astrophysics of high-energy transients. We study the origin of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-26 B. Theodore Zhang , Kohta Murase , Chengchao Yuan , Shigeo S. Kimura , Peter Mészáros

Gamma-ray bursts GRBs are among the most mysterious astronomical phenomenon ever discovered. Unlike most astronomical discoveries which were explained within weeks or months after their initial discovery, GRBs remain a puzzle for more than…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tsvi Piran

The Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (\insight) detected GRB 221009A, the brightest gamma-ray burst observed to date, with all its three telescopes, i.e. High Energy telescope (HE, 20-250 keV), Medium Energy telescope (ME, 5-30 keV), and Low…

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are one of the main targets for the observations of the MAGIC telescopes. As a result of the effort in improving the sensitivity of the instrument and the automatic follow-up strategy, MAGIC detected two GRBs in the…

Anomalous high energy photons, known as GRB221009A, with 18 TeV and 251 TeV were observed by LHAASO and Carpet-2 recently. Such observation of high energy gamma-ray bursts from distant source causes a mystery since high energy photons…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-07 Janus Capellan Aban , Chuan-Ren Chen , Yuan-Feng Hsieh , Chrisna Setyo Nugroho

The high energy emission from Gamma-ray Bursts has some interesting features, including the absence of the GeV excess in the prompt spectrum, the delayed onset of the GeV emission, and the longer duration of the GeV emission than the prompt…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-16 Yi-Zhong Fan