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The light curves of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are believed to result from internal shocks reflecting the activity of the GRB central engine. Their temporal deconvolution can reveal potential differences in the properties of the central…

We calculate the spectra of inverse Compton (IC) emissions in gamma-ray burst (GRB) shocks produced when relativistic ejecta encounters the external interstellar medium, assuming a broken power-law approximation to the synchrotron seed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 X. Y. Wang , Z. G. Dai , T. Lu

In this Letter, we propose that a microphysical process takes a vital role in the shocked region in which the prompt emission of GRBs is emitted. The turbulent energy is included in the internal energy transferred by the kinetic energy of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-01-08 Jirong Mao , Jiancheng Wang

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are a mixed class of sources consisting of, at least, the long duration and short-hard subclasses, the X-ray flashes, and the low-luminosity GRBs. In all cases, the release of enormous amounts of energy on a short…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-09-24 Charles D. Dermer , Chris L. Fryer

In many models of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) relativistic shells are responsible for the overall envelope of emission. We use kinematics and symmetry to calculate the time history and spectral evolution expected from a relativistic shell…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. E. Fenimore , M. C. Sumner

The Second Gamma-ray Burst Catalog (2FLGC) was announced by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi-LAT) Collaboration. It includes 29 bursts with photon energy higher than 10 GeV. Gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglow observations have been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-16 Nissim Fraija , Maria G. Dainotti , B. Betancourt Kamenetskaia , D. Levine , A. Galvan-Gamez

I present a computationally efficient way to account for synchrotron and its inverse Compton scattered emission along with the resulting radiative losses, in a self-consistent way, for a relativistic distribution of electrons continuously…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Papathanassiou

The hard X-ray and gamma-ray phenomenology of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) can be explained by an external shock model where a single relativistic blast wave interacts with the surrounding medium. Besides reproducing the generic spectral…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Charles D. Dermer

Modeling subphotospheric shocks in a gamma-ray burst (GRB) is challenging due to the various timescales that must be resolved, and the fact that the same radiation dynamically mediates the shocks while forming the observed signal. Here, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-10 Jona Nordin Nobuoka , Filip Alamaa , Felix Ryde , Christoffer Lundman

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most powerful electromagnetic outbursts in the Universe and emit a vast amount of their energy in the form of gamma rays. Their duration is extremely short on cosmic timescales, but they show a wealth of time…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-11 Else Magnus , Jannes Loonen , Rose S. Stanley , Paul Coppin , Krijn D. de Vries , Nick van Eijndhoven

The variability in multi-pulse gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) may help to reveal the mechanism of underlying processes from the central engine. To investigate whether the self-organized criticality (SOC) phenomena exist in the prompt phase of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-15 Fen Lyu , Ya-Ping Li , Shu-Jin Hou , Jun-Jie Wei , Jin-Jun Geng , Xue-Feng Wu

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are highly variable and exhibit strong spectral evolution. In particular, the emission properties vary from pulse to pulse in multipulse bursts. Here we present a time-resolved Bayesian spectral analysis of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-20 Liang Li , Felix Ryde , Asaf Pe'er , Hoi-Fung Yu , Zeynep Acuner

The diverse and complex light curves of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) remain an outstanding astrophysical mystery. Here we report the results of 2-1/2-dimensional particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations of the relativistic expansion of magnetized…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Edison Liang , Kazumi Nishimura

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are ultra-relativistic collimated outflows, which emit synchrotron radiation throughout the entire electromagnetic spectrum when they interact with their environment. This afterglow emission enables us to probe the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-09 M. D. Aksulu , R. A. M. J. Wijers , H. J. van Eerten , A. J. van der Horst

We compute burst spectra and time structures arising from synchrotron and inverse Compton scattering by non-thermal electrons accelerated in shocks which form during the interaction between a thin ultra-relativistic fireball and a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 A. Panaitescu , P. Meszaros

Gamma-ray bursts (GRB) are extremely energetic events and produce highly diverse light curves. Light curves are believed to be resulting from internal shocks reflecting the activities of the GRB central engine. Hence their temporal studies…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-07-30 P. N. Bhat

Radiation-mediated shocks (RMSs) occurring below the photosphere in a gamma-ray burst (GRB) jet could play a crucial role in shaping the prompt emission. In this paper, we study the time-resolved signal expected from such early shocks. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-21 Filip Alamaa , Frédéric Daigne

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are extremely high-energy events that can be observed at very high redshift. In addition to gamma rays, they can emit in X-ray, optical, and sometimes radio wavelengths. Here, following the approach in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-07 M. G. Dainotti , D. Levine , D. Warren , N. Fraija , S. Sourav

The emission mechanism of the gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is still a matter of debates. The standard synchrotron energy spectrum of cooling electrons F_E ~ E^{-1/2} is much too soft to account for the majority of the observed spectral slopes.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Boris E. Stern , Juri Poutanen

The synchrotron external shock model predicts the evolution of the spectral ($\beta$) and temporal ($\alpha$) indices during the gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglow for different environmental density profiles, electron spectral indices,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-15 Donggeun Tak , Nicola Omodei , Z. Lucas Uhm , Judith Racusin , Katsuaki Asano , Julie McEnery