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We numerically simulate the gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglow emission with a one-zone time-dependent code. The temporal evolutions of the decelerating shocked shell and energy distributions of electrons and photons are consistently…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-02 Takuma Fukushima , Sho To , Katsuaki Asano , Yutaka Fujita

We extend previous work on gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglows involving hot thermal electrons at the base of a shock-accelerated tail. Using a physically-motivated electron distribution based on first-principles simulations, we compute…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-19 Donald C. Warren , Maria Dainotti , Maxim V. Barkov , Bjorn Ahlgren , Hirotaka Ito , Shigehiro Nagataki

Using the resultant profiles from 3D hydrodynamic simulations of relativistic jets interacting with neutron star merger wind ejecta, we show how the inhomogeneity of energy and velocity {across the jet surface profile} can alter the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-31 Gavin P Lamb , Lorenzo Nativi , Stephan Rosswog , D. Alexander Kann , Andrew Levan , Christoffer Lundman , Nial Tanvir

The observed behavior of a short gamma-ray burst (sGRB) afterglow lightcurve can reveal the angular structure of the relativistic jet and constrain the observer's viewing angle $\theta_\textrm{obs}$. Regardless of viewing angle, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-09 Brendan O'Connor , Paz Beniamini , Ramandeep Gill

Recent detections of very-high-energy (VHE; $\gtrsim 100~{\rm GeV}$) emission from GRB afterglows, most notably the unprecedented brightness of GRB~221009A observed by LHAASO, reveal components beyond the standard electron synchrotron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-27 T. Mondal , S. Razzaque , Jagdish C. Joshi , S. Majumder , D. Bose

The standard model for GRB afterglow emission treats the accelerated electron population as a simple power law, $N(E) \propto E^{-p}$ for $p \gtrsim 2$. However, in standard Fermi shock acceleration a substantial fraction of the swept-up…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-08 Donald C. Warren , Donald C. Ellison , Maxim V. Barkov , Shigehiro Nagataki

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 burst (GRB) jets are narrow, and thus typically point away from us. They are initially ultra-relativistic, causing their prompt $\gamma$-ray and early afterglow emission to be beamed away from us. However, as the jet gradually…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-19 Jonathan Granot , Fabio De Colle , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

We investigate the GeV emission from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), using the results from the Energetic Gamma Ray Experimental Telescope (EGRET), and in view of the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST). Assuming that the conventional…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-01 Shin'ichiro Ando , Ehud Nakar , Re'em Sari

We discuss jet dynamics for narrow and wide gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglow jets and the observational implications of numerical simulations of relativistic jets in two dimensions. We confirm earlier numerical results that sideways…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Hendrik J. van Eerten , Andrew I. MacFadyen

The TeV observations of GRB~221009A provided us with a unique opportunity to analyze the contemporaneous phase in which both prompt and afterglow emissions are seen simultaneously. To describe this initial phase of Gamma-Ray Burst…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-05 Evgeny Derishev , Tsvi Piran

We numerically compute light and polarisation curves of gamma-ray burst afterglows for various configurations of the jet luminosity structure and for different dynamical evolutions. We especially consider the standard homogeneous ``top…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Elena M. Rossi , D. Lazzati , Jay D. Salmonson , G. Ghisellini

A relativistic electron-positron ($e^{+}e^{-}$) pair wind from a rapidly rotating, strongly magnetized neutron star (NS) would interact with a gamma-ray burst (GRB) external shock and reshapes afterglow emission signatures. Assuming that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-29 Long Li , Zi-Gao Dai

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) associated with gravitational wave events are, and will likely continue to be, viewed at a larger inclination than GRBs without gravitational wave detections. As demonstrated by the afterglow of GW170817, this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-01 Geoffrey Ryan , Hendrik van Eerten , Luigi Piro , Eleonora Troja

Here we calculate the GRB afterglow light curves from a relativistic jet as seen by observers at a wide range of viewing angles from the jet axis, and the jet is uniform or non-uniform. We find that, for uniform jet the afterglow light…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. M. Wei , Z. P. Jin

Recently gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have been detected at very high-energy (VHE) gamma-rays by imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes, and a two-component jet model has often been invoked to explain multiwavelength data. In this work,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-26 Yuri Sato , Kohta Murase , Yutaka Ohira , Ryo Yamazaki

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are among the most luminous and rapidly evolving transients in the Universe. While space-based instruments have extended GRB observations up to energies of $\sim$100 GeV, the detection of very-high-energy (VHE;…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-10 S. Macera , B. Banerjee , M. Seglar-Arroyo , J. Green , G. Oganesyan , P. Tiwari , A. Ierardi , M. Branchesi , F. Aharonian , S. Mohnani , D. Miceli , F. Schüssler , A. Berti

In this paper, we model the dynamics and radiation physics of the rarity event GRB 221009A afterglow in detail. By introducing a top-hat jet that propagates in an environment dominated by stellar winds, we explain the publicly available…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-26 Jia Ren , Yun Wang , Lu-Lu Zhang , Zi-Gao Dai

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

Gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglows are emissions from ultrarelativistic blast waves produced by a narrow jet interacting with surrounding matter. Since the first multimessenger observation of a neutron star merger, hydrodynamic modeling of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-12 Hao Wang , Ranadeep G. Dastidar , Dimitrios Giannios , Paul C. Duffell