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The recently discovered GRB afterglow is believed to be described reasonably well by synchrotron emission from a slowing down relativistic shell that collides with an external medium. To compare theoretical models with afterglow…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Re'em Sari , Tsvi Piran , Ramesh Narayan

We generally analyze prompt high-energy emission above a few hundreds of GeV due to synchrotron self-Compton scattering in internal shocks. However, such photons cannot be detected because they may collide with cosmic infrared background…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Z. G. Dai , T. Lu

We introduce a methodology for analysis of multiwavelength data from X-ray selected BL Lac (XBL) objects detected in the TeV regime. By assuming that the radio--through--X-ray flux from XBLs is nonthermal synchrotron radiation emitted by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Justin Finke , Charles Dermer , Markus Boettcher

Multi-wavelength modeling of the synchrotron radiation from relativistic transients such as Gamma-ray Burst (GRB) afterglows is a powerful means of exploring the physics of relativistic shocks and of deriving properties of the explosion,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-21 George A. McCarthy , Tanmoy Laskar

We calculate the GeV spectra of GRB afterglows produced by inverse Compton scattering of the sub-MeV emission of these objects. We improve on earlier treatments by using refined afterglow parameters and new model developments motivated by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-19 L. J. Gou , P. Meszaros

Observations of gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglows have long provided the most detailed information about the origin of this spectacular phenomena. The model that is most commonly used to extract physical properties of the event from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-06 Guðlaugur Jóhannesson , Gunnlaugur Björnsson

The electron energy distribution index, p, is a fundamental parameter of the synchrotron emission from a range of astronomical sources. Here we examine one such source of synchrotron emission, Gamma-Ray Burst afterglows observed by the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-05-28 P. A. Curran , P. A. Evans , M. de Pasquale , M. J. Page , A. J. van der Horst

X-ray light curves of gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglows exhibit various features, with the shallow decay phase being particularly puzzling. While some studies report absence of the X-ray shallow decay for hyper-energetic GRBs, recently…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-16 Kenta Terauchi , Tomohiko Oka , Katsuaki Asano

The Fermi satellite has been reporting the detailed temporal properties of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) in an extremely broad spectral range, 8 keV - 300 GeV, in particular, the unexpected delays of the GeV emission onsets behind the MeV…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-12-18 Kenji Toma , Xue-Feng Wu , Peter Meszaros

Recently, the MAGIC Collaboration reported a $\sim 5\sigma$ statistical significance of the very-high-energy (VHE) emission from a distant GRB, GRB 201216C. Such distant GRB may be effectively absorbed by the extragalactic background light…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-15 Yan Huang

We present radio and optical afterglow observations of the TeV-bright long Gamma Ray Burst (GRB) 190114C at a redshift of $z=0.425$, which was detected by the MAGIC telescope. Our observations with ALMA, ATCA, and uGMRT were obtained by our…

Fermi observations of high-energy gamma-ray emission from GRB 080916C shows that its spectrum is consistent with the Band function from MeV to tens of GeV. Assuming one single emission mechanism dominates in the whole energy range, we show…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-02-11 Xiang-Yu Wang , Zhuo Li , Zi-Gao Dai , Peter Meszaros

M87 is the first extragalactic source detected in the TeV range that is not a blazar. With the increasing performances of ground-based Cherenkov telescopes, we can now probe the variability in the gamma-ray flux at small timescales, thus…

Despite more than fifty years of gamma-ray burst (GRB) observations, several questions regarding the origin of the prompt emission, particularly at high energies, remain unresolved. We present a comprehensive analysis of 35 GRBs observed by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-22 Samanta Macera , Biswajit Banerjee , Alessio Mei , Pawan Tiwari , Gor Oganesyan , Marica Branchesi

GRB 000926 has one of the best-studied afterglows to-date, with multiple X-ray observations, as well as extensive multi-frequency optical and radio coverage. Broadband afterglow observations, spanning from X-ray to radio frequencies,…

Supernova 1006 is the first shell type supernova remnant to show evidence of particle acceleration to TeV energies. In the present paper we examine this possibility by modeling the observed X-ray non-thermal emission in terms of synchrotron…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 A. Mastichiadis , O. C. de Jager

Cosmological fireball models of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) predict delayed emission, ``after-glow,'' at longer wavelengths. We present several new results regarding the model predictions, and show that X-ray to optical observations of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Eli Waxman

Some recent experiments detecting very high energy (VHE) gamma-rays above 10-20 TeV independently reported VHE bursts for some of bright gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). If these signals are truly from GRBs, these GRBs must emit a much larger…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Tomonori Totani

This study investigates the environments and characteristics of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) exhibiting very high energy (VHE) emission. Recent detections of VHE emission, up to TeV energies, challenge synchrotron-only emission models and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-25 Kuntal Misra , Dimple , Ankur Ghosh

Synchrotron radiation of relativistic electrons is an important radiation mechanism in many astrophysical sources. In the sources where the synchrotron cooling time scale $t_c$ is shorter than the dynamical time scale $t_{dyn}$, electrons…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Z. Lucas Uhm , Bing Zhang