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Very high energy photons from cosmological gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are expected to interact with extragalactic background light (EBL) and produce electron-positron pairs when they propagate through intergalactic medium (IGM). These…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-08 Ze-Rui Wang , Shao-Qiang Xi , Ruo-Yu Liu , Rui Xue , Xiang-Yu Wang

Most Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) detected by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope exhibit a delay of up to about 10 seconds between the trigger time of the hard X-ray signal as measured by the Fermi GBM and the onset of the MeV-GeV counterpart…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Gianluca Castignani , Dafne Guetta , Elena Pian , Lorenzo Amati , Simonetta Puccetti , Simone Dichiara

In this work, we consider the Ho\v{r}ava-Lifshitz scaling to rewrite higher-order derivatives in Lorentz-violating CPT-even electrodynamics. The possibility of the Lorentz invariance violation being originally suppressed by the quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-03 K. E. L. de Farias , T. A. M. Sampaio , M. A. Anacleto , F. A. Brito , E. Passos

High-energy photons emitted by flaring active galactic nuclei (AGNs) have been used for many years to constrain modified dispersion relations in vacuum encountered in the context of quantum gravity phenomenology. In such studies, done in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-29 Perennes Cédric , Sol Hélène , Bolmont Julien

The analysis of spectral lag between energy bands, which combines temporal and spectral analyses, can add strict constraints to gamma-ray burst (GRB) models. In previous studies, the lag analysis focused on the lags between channel 1 (25-57…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Bobing Wu , Edward Fenimore

The LHAASO Collaboration detected the gamma ray burst GRB 221009A at energies above $500 \, {\rm GeV}$ with a tail extending up to $18 \, \rm TeV$, whose spectral analysis has presently been performed up to $7 \, \rm TeV$ for the lower…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-22 Giorgio Galanti , Lara Nava , Marco Roncadelli , Fabrizio Tavecchio , Giacomo Bonnoli

Constraints on the birefringence-free subset of Lorentz-violating (LV) operators are derived using 14 GRB photons in the GeV-band. These constraints target the isotropic $c_{(I)00}^{(d)}$ coefficients for dimensions $d=6,8,10$ within the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-04 Zhi Xiao , Hanlin Song , Bo-Qiang Ma

Einstein's equivalence principle (EEP) can be tested by the time delay between photons with different energies passing through a gravitational field. As one of the most energetic explosions in the Universe, gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) provide…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-11 Yu Sang , Hai-Nan Lin , Zhe Chang

GRB 190114C is the first gamma-ray burst detected at Very High Energies (VHE, i.e. >300 GeV) by the MAGIC Cherenkov telescope. The analysis of the emission detected by the Fermi satellite at lower energies, in the 10 keV -- 100 GeV energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-05 M. E. Ravasio , G. Oganesyan , O. S. Salafia , G. Ghirlanda , G. Ghisellini , M. Branchesi , S. Campana , S. Covino , R. Salvaterra

Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) with rapid variations at cosmological distances are used to place new limits on violations of the gravitational weak equivalence principle (WEP). These limits track intrinsic timing deviations between GRB photons of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-15 Matipon Tangmatitham , Robert J. Nemiroff

Very-high-energy (VHE) emission is usually interpreted in the synchrotron-self Compton (SSC) scenario, and expected from the low-redshift and high-luminosity gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), as GRB 180720B and GRB 190114C. Recently, VHE emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-08 N. Fraija , P. Veres , P. Beniamini , A. Galvan-Gamez , B. D. Metzger , R. Barniol Duran , R. L. Becerra

We use the spectral lag data of 32 long GRBs detected by Fermi/GBM, which has been recently collated in Liu et al (2022) to quantify the statistical significance of a transition in the spectral lag data based on Lorentz invariance violation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-18 Vibhavasu Pasumarti , Shantanu Desai

Eleven bright gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) detected by BATSE have also been seen at much higher energies by EGRET, six at energies above 10 MeV. Such observations imply that these bursts are optically thin to photon-photon pair production at all…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Matthew G. Baring , Alice K. Harding

The study of the high-energy (MeV-GeV) part of GRBs spectrum can play a crucial role in investigating the physics of the prompt emission, but it is often hampered by low statistic and the paucity of GeV observations. In this work, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-29 M. E. Ravasio , G. Ghirlanda , G. Ghisellini

Very-high-energy (VHE; >~100 GeV) gamma-rays are expected from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) in some scenarios. Exploring this photon energy regime is necessary for understanding the energetics and properties of GRBs. GRBs have been one of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-02-27 F. Aharonian

Gamma-Ray bursts, flaring active galactic nuclei and pulsars are distant and energetic astrophysical sources, detected up to tens of TeV with Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs). Due to their high variability, they are the most…

Owing to their isotropy, it is generally believed that ultrahigh energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) are extragalactic in origin. It is then expected that interactions of these cosmic rays with photons of the cosmic background radiation (CBR)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 F. W. Stecker , S. T. Scully

It was recently proposed that a giant flare of the blazar PKS B1424-418 at redshift $z=1.522$ is in association with a PeV-energy neutrino event detected by IceCube. Based on this association we here suggest that the flight time difference…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-14 Zi-Yi Wang , Ruo-Yu Liu , Xiang-Yu Wang

The framework of relativistic quantum-field theories requires Lorentz Invariance. Many theories of quantum gravity, on the other hand, include violations of Lorentz Invariance at small scales and high energies. This generates a lot of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Lukas Nellen

Both observational and theoretical studies indicate that the central engine of a gamma-ray burst (GRB) is intrinsically time-variable, implying jet inhomogeneity. A jet with an inhomogeneous Lorentz factor distribution develops internal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-12 Kanako Nakama , Kazumi Kashiyama , Nobuhiro Shimizu