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In this article we update constraints on superconducting cosmic strings (SCSs) in light of the recent observational developments of fast radio bursts (FRBs) astronomy. Assuming strings follow an exponential distribution characterized by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-09 Batool Imtiaz , Rui Shi , Yi-Fu Cai

There is mounting evidence that long duration gamma ray bursts (GRBs) are produced by ultra-relativistic jets of ordinary matter which are ejected in core collapse supernova (SN) explosions. Such jets are extremely efficient cosmic ray (CR)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-15 Arnon Dar

Cosmic superstring loops generically contain strings of different tensions that meet at Y-junctions. These loops evolve non-periodically in time, and have cusps and kinks that interact with the junctions. We study the effect of junctions on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-12-30 P. Binetruy , A. Bohe , T. Hertog , D. A. Steer

We compute the contribution of kinks on cosmic string loops to stochastic background of gravitational waves (SBGW).We find that kinks contribute at the same order as cusps to the SBGW.We discuss the accessibility of the total background due…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-19 S. Olmez , V. Mandic , X. Siemens

The cosmological gamma-ray burst (GRB) model for the production of ultra- high energy cosmic rays is described, and the current observational evidence which support it discussed. Several predictions of the model are presented, which would…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eli Waxman

We investigate the emission of vector radiation by superconducting cosmic string loops, deriving general relations to characterize the vector radiation emission efficiency, and study its impact on the evolution of loops. Building on these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-27 I. Yu. Rybak , L. Sousa

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are violent explosions, coming from cosmological distances. They are detected in gamma-rays (also X-rays, UV, optical, radio) almost every day, and have typical durations of a few seconds to a few minutes. Some GRBs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-10 Antonios Nathanail , Ioannis Contopoulos

We calculate the flux of ultra high energy photons from individual ordinary (i.e. non-superconducting) cosmic strings and compare the results with the sensitivity of current and proposed TeV and EeV telescopes. Our calculations give only…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Jane H. MacGibbon , Robert H. Brandenberger

We outline a model of abelian-Higgs strings with variable scalar and vector core radii. In general, the functions determining the time and position-dependent core widths may be expressed as arbitrary left or right movers, of which the usual…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-02-17 Matthew J. Lake , Tiberiu Harko

We compute the gravitational waveform produced by cosmic superstring reconnections. This is done by first constructing the superstring reconnection trajectory, which closely resembles that of classical, instantaneous reconnection but with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-07-22 Mark G. Jackson , Xavier Siemens

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are most intense transient gamma-ray events in the sky when they are on together with the strong evidences (i.e. the isotropic and inhomogeneous distribution of GRBs detected by BASTE) that they are located at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-01 K. S. Cheng , T. Lu

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are short and intense flashes at the cosmological distances, which are the most luminous explosions in the Universe. The high luminosities of GRBs make them detectable out to the edge of the visible universe. So,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-17 Patrick Petitjean , F. Y. Wang , X. F. Wu , J. J. Wei

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are cosmological explosions which carry valuable information from the distant past of the expanding universe. One of the greatest discoveries in modern cosmology is the finding of the accelerated expansion of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-15 Rupal Basak , A. R. Rao

GRBs are thought to arise in relativistic blast-wave shocks at distances of 10 to 1000 AU from the point where the explosive energy is initially released. To account for the observed duration and variability of the gamma-ray emission in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-04 W. Kluzniak , M. Ruderman

The structure of the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics points toward grand unified theories (GUTs) where strong and electroweak interactions are unified in a non-Abelian GUT group. The spontaneous breaking of the GUT symmetry to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-25 Wilfried Buchmuller

The most energetic GRB-supernovae probably derive from rotating stellar mass black holes. Based on BeppoSax data, we identify a mechanism for exploding a remnant stellar envelope by disk winds. A specific signature is high frequency…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-09-03 Maurice H. P. M. van Putten

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are sources of energetic, highly variable fluxes of gamma rays, which demonstrates that they are powerful particle accelerators. Besides relativistic electrons, GRBs should also accelerate high-energy hadrons, some…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Charles D. Dermer , Armen Atoyan

Cosmological gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are probably powered by systems harboring a rotating black hole. These may result from hypernovae or black hole-neutron star coalescence. We identify short/long bursts with hyper- and suspended-accretion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 Maurice H. P. M. van Putten

The principal energy loss mechanism in a Nambu-Goto cosmic string network involves loop production and the subsequent gravitational-wave emission. Recently, it has been shown that the loop oscillations produce repeated gravitational-wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-09 Imene Belahcene , Wen-Biao Han

Gamma ray bursts (GRBs) are astronomical phenomena detected at highest energies. The gamma ray photons carry energies on the order of mega-electronovolts and arrive to us from the point-like sources that are uniformly distributed on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-21 A. Janiuk , B. James , K. Sapountzis