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Models where relativistic jets from merger or accretion induced collapse in compact binary systems produce cosmological gamma ray bursts (GRBs) also predict that GRBs are accompanied by delayed emission of high energy photons, TeV…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 Arnon Dar

Long-lasting emission of short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is crucial to reveal the physical origin of the central engine as well as to detect electromagnetic (EM) counterparts to gravitational waves (GWs) from neutron star binary mergers. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-20 Shota Kisaka , Kunihito Ioka , Takanori Sakamoto

Gamma-ray burst (GRB) prompt emission is highly beamed, and understanding the jet geometry and beaming configuration can provide information on the poorly understood central engine and circum-burst environment. Prior to the advent of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-21 Sylvia Biscoveanu , Eric Thrane , Salvatore Vitale

There are several lines of evidence which suggest that the relativistic outflows in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are collimated into narrow jets. The jet structure has important implications for the true energy release and the event rate of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-01-11 Jonathan Granot

We have performed a systematic study of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs), which have various values in the peak energy of the ${\nu}F_{\nu}$ spectrum of the prompt emission, $E_{{\rm peak}}$, observed by \textsl{Swift}/BAT and \textsl{Fermi}/GBM,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-12 Daisuke Katsukura , Takanori Sakamoto , Makoto S. Tashiro , Yukikatsu Terada

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

The jet opening angle theta_jet and the bulk Lorentz factor Gamma_0 are crucial parameters for the computation of the energetics of Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs). From the ~30 GRBs with measured theta_jet or Gamma_0 it is known that: (i) the real…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 G. Ghirlanda , G. Ghisellini , R. Salvaterra , L. Nava , D. Burlon , G. Tagliaferri , S. Campana , P. D'Avanzo , A. Melandri

The Swift X-ray Telescope (XRT) has discovered that flares are quite common in early X-ray afterglows of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs), being observed in roughly 50% of afterglows with prompt followup observations. The flares range in fluence…

As the brightest Gamma-Ray burst (GRB) ever detected, GRB 221009A may offer a chance that reveals some interesting features which are hidden in those bursts that are not so bright. There seems a very weak emission with a flux of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-27 Xin-Ying Song , Shuang-Nan Zhang

The standard external shock model in the thin-shell scenario predicts an onset bump in the early optical afterglow light curves of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). We collect such a textbook-version light curve sample of $30$ GRBs, and derive the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-14 Lu-Lu Zhang , Shu-Qing Zhong , Li-Ping Xin , En-Wei Liang

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are emitted by relativistic ejecta from powerful cosmic explosions. Their light curves suggest that the gamma-ray emission occurs at early stages of the ejecta expansion, well before it decelerates in the ambient…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Andrei M. Beloborodov

Understanding the origin and diversity of emission processes responsible for Gamma-ray Bursts (GRBs) remains a pressing challenge. While prompt and contemporaneous panchromatic observations have the potential to test predictions of the…

In order to constrain the broad-band spectral energy distribution of the afterglow of GRB 100621A, dedicated observations were performed in the optical/near-infrared with the 7-channel "Gamma-Ray Burst Optical and Near-infrared Detector"…

Long $\rm \gamma$-ray bursts (GRBs) are produced by the dissipation of ultra-relativistic jets launched by newly-born black holes after the collapse of massive stars. Right after the luminous and highly variable $\gamma$-ray emission, the…

The X-ray afterglows (AGs) of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) and X-Ray Flashes (XRFs) have, after the fast decline phase of their prompt emission, a temporal behaviour varying between two extremes. A large fraction of these AGs has a 'canonical'…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Shlomo Dado , Arnon Dar , A. De Rujula

Radio observations of gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglows are essential for our understanding of the physics of relativistic blast waves, as they enable us to follow the evolution of GRB explosions much longer than the afterglows in any other…

We propose that gamma ray bursts (GRBs) are produced by a shower of heavy blobs running into circumstellar material at highly relativistic speeds. The gamma ray emission is produced in the shocks these bullets drive into the surrounding…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Heinz , M. C. Begelman

The counter jet of a short gamma-ray burst (sGRB) has not yet been observed, while recent discoveries of gravitational waves (GWs) from a binary neutron star (NS) merger GW170817 and the associated sGRB 170817A have demonstrated that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-28 Ryo Yamazaki , Kunihito Ioka , Takashi Nakamura

X-ray flares in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are believed to be generated by the late activities of central engine, and thus provide an useful tool to diagnose the properties of central objects. In this paper, we work on a GRB X-ray flare sample…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-11 Shuang-Xi Yi , Wei Xie , Shuai-Bing Ma , Wei-Hua Lei , Mei Du

The early X-ray afterglows of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are usually well described by absorbed power laws. However, in some cases, additional thermal components have been identified. The origin of this emission is debated, with proposed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-27 Vlasta Valan , Josefin Larsson , Björn Ahlgren