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Gamma-ray Bursts (GRBs) are bursts of $\gamma$-rays generated from relativistic jets launched from catastrophic events such as massive star core collapse or binary compact star coalescence. Previous studies suggested that GRB emission is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-29 Bin-Bin Zhang , Bing Zhang , Alberto J. Castro-Tirado

Recent observations suggest that gamma ray bursts (GRBs) and their afterglows are produced by highly relativistic jets emitted in supernova explosions. We have proposed that the result of the event is not just a compact object plus the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Arnon Dar , Alvaro De Rújula

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

The jet opening angle of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is an important parameter for determining the characteristics of the progenitor, and the information contained in the opening angle gives insight into the relativistic outflow and the total…

The transition from prompt to the afterglow emission is one of the most exciting and least understood phases in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Correlations among optical, X-ray and gamma-ray emission in GRBs have been explored, to attempt to…

Even though the prompt emission of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is highly beamed, high-latitude emission still produces a distinct light curve break after the intrinsic emission ceases and the edge of the jet comes into view. This curvature…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-19 Zhen-Yu Yan , Xiao-Hong Zhao , Hendrik J. van Eerten , Jun Yang , Jiang-Chuan Tuo , Shu-Xu Yi , Chen-Wei Wang , Wen-Jun Tan , Shao-Lin Xiong , Bin-Bin Zhang

GRB 100418A is a long burst at z=0.624 without detection of any associated supernova (SN). Its lightcurves in both the prompt and afterglow phases are similar to GRB 060614, a nearby long GRB without an associated SN. We analyze the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Lan-Wei Jia , Xue-Feng Wu , Hou-Jun LV , Shu-Jin Hou , En-Wei Liang

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are produced during the propagation of ultra-relativistic jets. It is challenging to study the jet close to the central source, due to the high opacity of the medium. In this paper, we present numerical simulations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-07 Gerardo Urrutia , Fabio De Colle , Claudia Moreno , Michele Zanolin

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are fascinating extragalactic objects. They represent a fantastic opportunity to investigate unique properties not exhibited in other sources. Multi-wavelength afterglow observations from some short- and…

We perform a stringent search for precursor emission of short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs) from the Fermi/GBM data and find 16 precursor events with $\gtrsim4.5\sigma$ significance. We find that the durations of the main SGRB emission ($T_{\rm…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-28 Jie-Shuang Wang , Zong-Kai Peng , Jin-Hang Zou , Bin-Bin Zhang , Bing Zhang

Context: Multiwavelength observations of gamma-ray burst prompt and afterglow emission are a key tool to disentangle the various possible emission processes and scenarios proposed to interpret the complex gamma-ray burst phenomenology.…

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are among the most energetic events in the universe, offering insights into stellar collapse, extreme matter behavior, and cosmic evolution. The advent of multi-messenger astronomy, combining electromagnetic,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-13 Nicolas De Angelis

Long duration Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) originate from the core collapse of massive stars, but the identity of the central engine remains elusive. Previous work has shown that rapidly spinning, strongly magnetized proto-neutron stars…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 B. D. Metzger , D. Giannios , T. A. Thompson , N. Bucciantini , E. Quataert

Recently, ground-based Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes have reported the detection of very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-rays from some gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). One of them, GRB~190829A, was triggered by the Swift satellite, and about…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-25 Yuri Sato , Kaori Obayashi , Ryo Yamazaki , Kohta Murase , Yutaka Ohira

We report the results of our observing campaign on GRB140903A, a nearby (z=0.351) short duration (T90~0.3 s) gamma-ray burst discovered by Swift. We monitored the X-ray afterglow with Chandra up to 21 days after the burst, and detected a…

Due to relativistic bulk motion, the structure and orientation of gamma-ray burst jets have a fundamental role in determining how they appear. The recent discovery of the GW170817 binary neutron star merger and the associated GRB boosted…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-16 Om Sharan Salafia , Giancarlo Ghirlanda

It is generally supposed that a transition from the normal decay phase (decay slope $\sim -1$) to a steeper phase (decay slope $\sim -2$) could be suggested as a jet break. The jet opening angle $\theta_{\rm jet}$ is then calculated from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-09 Wen Zhao , Jia-Chang Zhang , Qing-Xiang Zhang , Jian-Tong Liang , Xiao-Hang Luan , Qi-Qi Zhou , Shuang-Xi Yi , Fei-Fei Wang , Shao-Tong Zhang

Gamma ray bursts (GRBs) are short and intense pulses of $\gamma$-rays arriving from random directions in the sky. Several years ago Amelino-Camelia et al. pointed out that a comparison of time of arrival of photons at different energies…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Tsvi Piran

Gamma-ray bursts (GRB) are generally believed to be efficient particle accelerators. In the presence of energetic protons in a GRB jet, interactions between these protons and intense radiation field of the GRB are supposed to induce…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-01 Ruo-Yu Liu , Hai-Ming Zhang , Xiang-Yu Wang

Short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs) are among the most luminous explosions in the Universe and their origin still remains uncertain. Observational evidence favors the association with binary neutron star or neutron star-black hole (NS-BH) binary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Riccardo Ciolfi , Daniel M. Siegel