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According to the internal-external shocks model for $\gamma $-ray bursts (GRBs), the GRB is produced by internal shocks within a relativistic flow while the afterglow is produced by external shocks with the ISM. We explore the early…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Re'em Sari , Tsvi Piran

The site and mechanism of gamma-ray burst (GRB) prompt emission is still unknown. Although internal shocks have been widely discussed as the emission site of GRBs, evidence supporting other emission sites have been also suggested recently,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Nayantara Gupta , Bing Zhang

We calculate the synchrotron self-Compton emission from internal shocks occurring in relativistic winds as a source of gamma-ray bursts, with allowance for self-absorption. For plausible model parameters most pulses within a Gamma-Ray Burst…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Panaitescu , P. Meszaros

Prompt optical emission from the $\gamma$-ray burst of GRB 041219A has been reported by Vestrand et al. There was a fast rise of optical emission simultaneous with the dominant $\gamma$-ray pulse, and a tight correlation with the prompt…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Zheng Zheng , Ye Lu , Yong-Heng Zhao

The observations of the prompt emission of gamma ray bursts (GRB) by GLAST Burst Monitor (GBM), on board Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, suggest the presence of a significant thermal spectral component, whose origin is not well understood.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-29 Priya Bharali , Sunder Sahayanathan , Ranjeev Misra , Kalyanee Boruah

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

We investigate the GeV emission from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), using the results from the Energetic Gamma Ray Experimental Telescope (EGRET), and in view of the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST). Assuming that the conventional…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-01 Shin'ichiro Ando , Ehud Nakar , Re'em Sari

Long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) frequently exhibit complex prompt emission structures with multiple temporally distinct episodes, such as a main emission (ME) phase followed by a weak extended emission (EE) tail. Whether these subcomponents…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-27 Liang Li , Xiao Wang , Zhi-Li Cui , Cheng-Long Xiao , Wen Li , Yu Wang , Zi-Gao Dai , Rong-Gen Cai

Long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are considered to be originated from core collapse of massive stars. It is believed that the afterglow property is determined by the density of the material in the surrounding interstellar medium. Therefore, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-02 Xiao Tian , Ying Qin , Mei Du , Shuang-Xi Yi , Yan-Ke Tang

We report on observations of correlated behavior between the prompt gamma-ray and optical emission from GRB 080319B, which (i) strongly suggest that they occurred within the same astrophysical source region and (ii) indicate that their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Michael Stamatikos , Tilan N. Ukwatta , Takanori Sakamoto , Kalvir S. Dhuga

Many models of cosmological gamma-ray bursts involve the sudden release of $\sim 10^{51}$ erg which produce shells which expand at relativistic speeds (Lorentz $\Gamma$ factors of $10^{2-3}$). We investigate the kinematic limits on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 E. E. Fenimore , Claudine Madras , Sergei Nayakshin

Rapid, hyper-Eddington accretion is likely to power the central engines of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). In the extreme conditions of densities and temperatures the accreting torus is cooled by neutrino emission rather than by radiation. Another…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Agnieszka Janiuk , Rosalba Perna , Tiziana Di Matteo , Bozena Czerny

Using zoom-simulations carried out with the adaptive mesh-refinement code RAMSES with a dynamic range of up to $2^{27} \approx 1.34 \times 10^8$ we investigate the accretion profiles around six stars embedded in different environments…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-01 Michael Kuffmeier , Søren Frimann , Sigurd S. Jensen , Troels Haugbølle

We have analyzed the prompt and afterglow characteristics of the intermediate luminosity burst ``GRB 210210A". Our prompt emission analysis indicates that GRB 210210A is among the softest long GRBs detected by the Swift-BAT. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-10 Rahul Gupta , A. K. Ror , S. B. Pandey , J. Racusin , M. Moss , A. Aryan , N. Klingler , A. J. Castro-Tirado

Tail emission of the prompt gamma-ray burst (GRB) is discussed using a multiple emitting sub-shell (inhomogeneous jet, sub-jets or mini-jets) model, where the whole GRB jet consists of many emitting sub-shells. One may expect that such a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Ryo Yamazaki , Kenji Toma , Kunihito Ioka , Takashi Nakamura

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

Accreting supermassive black hole binaries are powerful multimessenger sources emitting both gravitational and EM radiation. Understanding the accretion dynamics of these systems and predicting their distinctive EM signals is crucial to…

The origin of the prompt high-energy ($>100$MeV) emission of Gamma-ray Bursts (GRBs), detected by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, is still under debate, for which both the external shock origin…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-27 Qing-Wen Tang , Xiang-Yu Wang , Ruo-Yu Liu

We present a method to estimate the jet opening angles of long duration Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) using the prompt gamma-ray energetics and an inversion of the Ghirlanda relation, which is a correlation between the time-integrated peak energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-17 Adam Goldstein , Valerie Connaughton , Michael S. Briggs , Eric Burns

Aims and Methods. Accretion bursts triggered by the magnetorotational instability (MRI) in the innermost disk regions were studied for protoplanetary gas-dust disks formed from prestellar cores of various mass $M_{\rm core}$ and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-09 Eduard Vorobyov , Sergey Khaibrakhmanov , Shantanu Basu , Marc Audard