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Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are the strongest explosions in the Universe, which due to their extreme character likely involve some of the strongest magnetic fields in nature. This review discusses the possible roles of magnetic fields in GRBs,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-08 Jonathan Granot , Tsvi Piran , Omer Bromberg , Judith L. Racusin , Frédéric Daigne

A large class of gamma-ray burst (GRB) models (overwhelming until recently) involve the release of energy in a neutron star quake. Even though the extreme isotropy of the GRB sky established by the BATSE experiment has now shifted the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 J. E. Horvath

Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) have been proposed as one {\it possible} class of sources of the Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Ray (UHECR) events observed up to energies $\gsim10^{20}\ev$. The synchrotron radiation of the highest energy protons…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Pijushpani Bhattacharjee , Nayantara Gupta

Blazars and Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) are the fastest objects known so far. The radiation we see from these sources originates in a jet of similar aperture angle, and we think it is the result of the conversion of some of the jet kinetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-19 G. Ghisellini

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

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have long been considered as candidates of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs). We investigate the signatures of CR proton acceleration in the GRBs by consistently taking into account their hadronic and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-06-25 Soebur Razzaque , Charles D. Dermer , Justin D. Finke , Armen Atoyan

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

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

Gamma-ray bursts (GRB) are short and intense bursts of $\sim$100 keV$-$1MeV photons, usually followed by long-lasting decaying afterglow emission in a wide range of electromagnetic wavelengths from radio to X-ray and, sometimes, even to GeV…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-05 Yun-Wei Yu , He Gao , Fa-Yin Wang , Bin-Bin Zhang

The energy of a Gamma-Ray Burst is one of the most interesting factors that can help determining the origin of these mysterious explosions. After the discovery that GRBs are cosmological it was thought, for a while that they are standard…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tsvi Piran

Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are the must violent explosions after the Big-Bang. Their high energy radiation can potentially carry information about the most inner part of the accretion disk of a collapsing star, ionize the surrounding material…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-12-19 Houri Ziaeepour

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most brilliant objects in the Universe but efforts to estimate the total energy released in the explosion -- a crucial physical quantity -- have been stymied by their unknown geometry: spheres or cones. We…

Lasting anywhere from a few milliseconds to several minutes, GRBs shine hundreds of times brighter than a typical supernova, making them briefly the brightest source of cosmic gamma-ray photons in the observable Universe. This thesis…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-11 Mette Friis

The most energetic gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are remarkable sources releasing huge amounts of energy on short timescales. Their prompt emission, which usually lasts few seconds, is so bright that it is visible across the whole observable…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-07 J-L. Atteia , V. Heussaff , J. -P. Dezalay , A. Klotz , D. Turpin , A. E. Tsvetkova , D. D. Frederiks , Y. Zolnierowski , F. Daigne , R. Mochkovitch

Due to their highly luminous nature, gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are useful tools in studying the early Universe (up to z = 10). We consider whether the available subset of Swift high redshift GRBs are unusual when compared to analogous…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-08-27 O. M. Littlejohns , N. R. Tanvir , R. Willingale , P. T. O'Brien , P. A. Evans , A. J. Levan

The principal paradigm for gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) suggests that the prompt transient gamma-ray signal arises from multiple shocks internal to the relativistic expansion. This paper explores how GRB prompt emission spectra can constrain…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-06-25 Matthew G. Baring

Ultra-long Gamma-Ray Bursts are a class of high energy transients lasting several hours. Their exact nature is still elusive, and several models have been proposed to explain them. Because of the limited coverage of wide field gamma-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-03 B. Gendre , Q. T. Joyce , N. B. Orange , G. Stratta , J. L. Atteia , M. Boer

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) can be probes of the early universe, but currently, only 26% of GRBs observed by the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory GRBs have known redshifts ($z$) due to observational limitations. To address this, we estimated the…

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the universe's most energetic phenomena (isotropic luminosity $\sim 10^{51} - 10^{54}$ ergs/s) lasting for a very short duration ($\sim$ milliseconds - a few seconds). Even after an average of one GRB detected…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-13 Soumya Gupta , Sunder Sahayanathan , Saharsh Shanu , Rishabh Nath

We introduce a new model of gamma ray burst (GRB) that explains its observed prompt signals, namely, its primary quasi-thermal spectrum and high energy tail. This mechanism can be applied to either assumption of GRB progenitor: coalescence…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Pisin Chen , Toshi Tajima , Yoshi Takahashi