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The prompt emission of gamma-ray bursts remains mysterious since the mechanism is difficult to understand even though there are much more observations with the development of detection technology. But most of the gamma-ray bursts spectra…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-26 Ming-Ya Duan , Xiang-Gao Wang

There is no complete description of the emission physics during the prompt phase in gamma-ray bursts. Spectral analyses, however, indicate that many spectra are narrower than what is expected for non-thermal emission models. Here, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-06 Zeynep Acuner , Felix Ryde , Asaf Pe'er , Daniel Mortlock , Björn Ahlgren

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are one of the most exciting sources that offer valuable opportunities for investigating the evolution of energy fraction given to magnetic fields and particles through microphysical parameters during relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-07 Nissim Fraija , Maria G. Dainotti , Boris Betancourt Kamenetskaia , Antonio Galván-Gámez , Edilberto Aguilar-Ruiz

We extend previous work modeling the Galactic magnetic field in the plane using synchrotron emission in total and polarised intensity. In this work, we include a more realistic treatment of the cosmic-ray electrons using the GALPROP…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-14 T. R. Jaffe , A. J. Banday , J. P. Leahy , S. Leach , A. W. Strong

We present the time integrated and time resolved spectral analysis of a sample of bright bursts selected with F_{peak}>20 phot cm^{-2} sec^{-1} from the BATSE archive. We fitted four different spectral models to the pulse time integrated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Ghirlanda , A. Celotti , G. Ghisellini

In models for gamma ray burst afterglows, it is normally assumed that the external shock strongly amplifies the magnetic field and that this field maintains a steady value throughout the shocked region. We discuss the effects of modifying…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Elena Rossi , Martin J. Rees

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi-LAT) Collaboration reported the Second Gamma-ray Burst Catalog (2FLGC), which comprises a subset of 29 bursts with photon energies above 10 GeV. Although the standard synchrotron forward-shock model has…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-17 N. Fraija , M. G. Dainotti , S. Ugale , D. Jyoti , D. C. Warren

Relativistic blast wave models predict the spectrum of the emitted synchrotron radiation. The electrons in the shocked region are heated to a Wien distribution whose ``temperature'' is $1/3$ of the mean electron energy. This energy scale…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 J. I. Katz

In this paper we present the spectrum of synchro-curvature self-Compton (SCSC) radiation of relativistic electrons with a power-law distribution of Lorentz factors. We find that the resulting spectrum is significantly different from that of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Bo Zhang , Zi-Gao Dai

It is demonstrated here that if the prompt GRB emission is produced by the simplest version of the external shock model, a specific relation should prevail between the observed duration, isotropic equivalent energy, and photon peak energy.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz , Jonathan Granot

In gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), the electron pitch angle ($\alpha$) is usually assumed to be isotropically distributed. However, recent numerical simulations indicate that only the high-energy electrons (with Lorentz factors…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-27 Kang-Fa Cheng , Kai-Xian Luo , Xiao-Hong Zhao , Jirong Mao , Hong-Bang Liu , Yu-Hang Mo , Jin-Rong Huang , Rong-Li Weng , Wen-Jie Xie , Gao-Jin Yu

We consider the conditions within a Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) emission region that is Poynting flux dominated. Due to the enormous magnetic energy density, relativistic electrons will cool in such a region extremely rapidly via synchrotron. As…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Paz Beniamini , Tsvi Piran

If the emission of gamma-ray bursts were due to the synchrotron process in the standard internal shock scenario, then the typical observed spectrum should have a slope F(nu) \propto nu^{-1/2}, which strongly conflicts with the much harder…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Gabriele Ghisellini , Annalisa Celotti , Davide Lazzati

The debate regarding the emission mechanism in gamma-ray bursts has been long-standing. Here, we study the spectral signatures of photospheric emission, accounting for subphotospheric dissipation by a radiation-mediated shock. The shocks…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-15 Filip Alamaa , Felix Ryde , Christoffer Lundman

As the standard gamma-ray burst (GRB) prompt-emission model, the internal shock (IS) model can reproduce the fast-rise and slow-decay features of the pulses in the GRB light curve. The time- and energy-dependent polarization can deliver…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-24 Mi-Xiang Lan , Hao-Bing Wang , Siyao Xu , Siming Liu , Xue-Feng Wu

I calculate the emission expected from a Poynting-flux-dominated gamma-ray burst (GRB) flow in which energy is dissipated gradually by magnetic reconnection. In this picture, the energy of the radiating particles is determined by heating…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Dimitrios Giannios

We study the synchrotron and synchrotron self-Compton (SSC) emission from internal shocks that are responsible for the prompt gamma-ray emission in GRBs, and consider the relation between these two components, taking into account the high…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Dafne Guetta , Jonathan Granot

Blazars emit non-thermal radiation in all frequency bands from radio to \gamma-rays. Additionally, they often exhibit rapid flaring events at all frequencies with doubling time scale of the TeV and X-ray flux on the order of minutes, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Michael Zacharias , Reinhard Schlickeiser

There are several phenomenological similarities between Soft Gamma Repeaters and Fast Radio Bursts, including duty factors, time scales and probable repetition. The sudden release of magnetic energy in a neutron star magnetosphere, as in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-23 J. I. Katz

Sorted by the photon fluences of short Gamma-ray Bursts (SGRBs) detected by the Fermi- Gamma Ray Burst Monitor (GBM), nine brightest bursts are selected to perform a comprehensive analysis. All GRB lightcurves are fitted well by 1 to 3…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-10 Peng-Wei Zhao , Qing-Wen Tang