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The typical spectrum of the prompt emission of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) indicates that the electron cooling is suppressed in spite of the strong magnetic field in the standard synchrotron model. Recent Particle-in-Cell simulations show that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-07 Ryota Goto , Katsuaki Asano

Gamma-ray Burst (GRB) collimation has been inferred with the observations of achromatic steepening in GRB light curves, known as jet breaks. Identifying a jet break from a GRB afterglow lightcurve allows a measurement of the jet opening…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-13 Xiang-Gao Wang , Bing Zhang , En-Wei Liang , Rui-Jing Lu , Jing Li , Long Li

The polarization measurement is an important tool to probe the prompt emission mechanism in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). The synchrotron photons can be scattered by cold electrons in the outflow via Compton scattering processes. The observed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-19 Zhe Chang , Yunguo Jiang , Hai-Nan Lin

INTEGRAL has two sensitive gamma-ray instruments that have detected 46 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) up to July 2007. We present the spectral, spatial, and temporal properties of the bursts in the INTEGRAL GRB catalogue using data from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-30 S. Foley , S. McGlynn , L. Hanlon , S. McBreen , B. McBreen

We discuss the preliminary results of spectral analysis simulations involving anticipated correlated multi-wavelength observations of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) using Swift's Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) and the Gamma-Ray Large Area Space…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Michael Stamatikos , Takanori Sakamoto , David L. Band

Lorentz invariance violations (LIV) can yield vacuum birefringence, which results in an energy-dependent rotation of the polarization vector of linearly polarized emission from astrophysical sources. It is believed that if the relative…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-10 Jun-Jie Wei

Relativistic electrons accelerated by both the first-order and the second-order Fermi accelerations in some synchrotron sources have a hybrid shape of thermal and nonthermal energy distribution. This particle acceleration result is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-14 Jirong Mao , Jiancheng Wang

The synchrotron external shock model predicts the evolution of the spectral ($\beta$) and temporal ($\alpha$) indices during the gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglow for different environmental density profiles, electron spectral indices,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-15 Donggeun Tak , Nicola Omodei , Z. Lucas Uhm , Judith Racusin , Katsuaki Asano , Julie McEnery

We present compelling evidence that most gamma-ray burst (GRB) pulse light curves can be characterized by a smooth single-peaked component coupled with a more complex emission structure that is temporally-symmetric around the time of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-29 Jon Hakkila

Using the observed rate of short-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) it is possible to make predictions for the detectable rate of compact binary coalescences in gravitational-wave detectors. These estimates rely crucially on the growing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Hsin-Yu Chen , Daniel E. Holz

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), as extremely energetic explosions in the universe, are widely believed to consist of two stages: the prompt phase and the subsequent afterglow. Recent studies indicate that some high-energy photons are emitted…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-02 Yingtian Chen , Bo-Qiang Ma

We explore fitting gamma-ray burst spectra with three physically-motivated models, and thus revisit the viability of synchrotron radiation as the primary source of GRB prompt emission. We pick a sample of 100 bright GRBs observed by the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-23 Suraj Poolakkil , Robert Preece , Peter Veres

The origin of the gamma-ray burst (GRB) prompt emission still defies explanation, in spite of recent progress made, for example, on the occasional presence of a thermal component in the spectrum along with the ubiquitous non-thermal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-23 S. Dichiara , C. Guidorzi , L. Amati , F. Frontera , R. Margutti

The gravitational lensing effect of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) holds significant and diverse applications in the field of astronomy. Nevertheless, the identification of millilensing events in GRBs presents substantial challenges. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-01 Yu Zhao , Zhao-Yang Peng , Jia-Ming Chen , Yue Yin , Ting Li

The complete high-resolution lightcurves of Swift GRB 080319B present an opportunity for detailed temporal analysis of the prompt optical emission. With a two-component distribution of initial Lorentz factors, we simulate the dynamical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Si-Yao Xu , Zhuo Li

Apparently, Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are all but standard candles. Their emission is collimated into a cone and the received flux depends on the cone aperture angle. Fortunately we can derive the aperture angle through an achromatic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 G. Ghisellini , G. Ghirlanda , C. Firmani , D. Lazzati , V. Avila-Reese , .

The recent launches of the Einstein Probe (EP) and the Space Variable Objects Monitor (SVOM) mission have led to the detection of a growing number of long GRBs with significant, early soft X-ray flux during their gamma-ray emission,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-21 Ziming Wang , Chenyu Wang , He Gao , Hua Feng , An Li , Lin Lin , Songyu Shen

We present the results of a comprehensive study of the luminosity function, energetics, prompt gamma-ray correlations, and classification methodology of short-hard and long-soft GRBs (SGRBs and LGRBs), based on observational data in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-06 Amir Shahmoradi , Robert J. Nemiroff

Macrolensing of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is expected to manifest as a GRB recurring with the same light curve and spectrum as a previous one, but with a different flux and a slightly offset position. Identifying such lensed GRBs may give…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-22 Björn Ahlgren , Josefin Larsson

The brightest Gamma-ray burst, GRB 221009A, has spurred numerous theoretical investigations, with particular attention paid to the origins of ultra-high energy TeV photons during the prompt phase. However, analyzing the mechanism of…