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Cosmological $\gamma$-ray bursts originate from relativistic winds. Temporal fluctuations in the wind velocity can give rise to internal shocks which dissipate a significant fraction of the wind kinetic energy. Part of the energy dissipated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ravi P. Pilla , Abraham Loeb

The brightest Gamma-ray burst, GRB 221009A, has spurred numerous theoretical investigations, with particular attention paid to the origins of ultra-high energy TeV photons during the prompt phase. However, analyzing the mechanism of…

The recent launches of the Einstein Probe (EP) and the Space Variable Objects Monitor (SVOM) mission have led to the detection of a growing number of long GRBs with significant, early soft X-ray flux during their gamma-ray emission,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-21 Ziming Wang , Chenyu Wang , He Gao , Hua Feng , An Li , Lin Lin , Songyu Shen

X-ray emission can provide a crucial diagnostic of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). We calculate the X-ray and gamma-ray spectra of impulsive acceleration episodes related to GRB pulses. We use the synchrotron shock model (SSM) as a basis of our…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 M. Tavani

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

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

A theoretical attempt to identify the physical process responsible for the afterglow emission of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) is presented, leading to the occurrence of thermal emission in the comoving frame of the shock wave giving rise to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Ruffini , C. L. Bianco , P. Chardonnet , F. Fraschetti , V. Gurzadyan , S. -S. Xue

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

The prompt emission of gamma-ray bursts probably comes from a highly relativistic wind which converts part of its kinetic energy into radiation via the formation of shocks within the wind itself. Such "internal shocks" can occur if the wind…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Frederic Daigne , Robert Mochkovitch

The gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) of long duration are very likely to be connected to the death of massive stars. The gamma-ray emission is believed to come from energy released internally in a flow that moves at ultrarelativistic speed. The fast…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Dimitrios Giannios

We present an interpretation of the phenomenological relations between the spectral peak, isotropic luminosity and duration of long gamma ray bursts that have been discovered by Amati et al., Ghirlanda et al., Firmani et al., and Liang &…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 C. Thompson , P. Meszaros , M. J. Rees

Large-voltage and high-temperature plasma columns produced by pinch discharge can generate gamma-ray flashes with energy spectra and spectral evolution consistent with that observed in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). The inverse Compton scattering…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Mei Wu , Li Chen , Ti-pei Li

We present a model for the gamma-ray emission of pulsars in terms of curvature radiation by highly relativistic particles. It is shown that the injection of power-law primary particles from an outer gap and subsequent cooling by curvature…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. R. Crusius-Waetzel , H. Lesch

We investigate a scenario of photons scattering by electrons within a relativistic outflow. The outflow is composed of discrete shells with different speeds. One shell emits radiation for a short duration. Some of this radiation is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-11 R. -F. Shen , R. Barniol Duran , P. Kumar

We show that if the intrinsic break energy of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) is determined by the product of more than three random variables the observed break energy distribution becomes almost lognormal including the redshift effect because of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Kunihito Ioka , Takashi Nakamura

We performed a time-resolved spectral analysis of 53 bright gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) observed by \textit{Fermi}/GBM. Our sample consists of 908 individual spectra extracted from the finest time slices in each GRB. We fitted them with the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-02 Dao-Zhou Wang , Xiao-Hong Zhao , Zhao Zhang , Bin-Bin Zhang , Zhao-Yang Peng

We show that inverse Compton scattering of cosmic-microwave-background and starlight photons by cosmic-ray electrons in the interstellar and intergalactic space explains well the spectrum and intensity of the diffuse gamma-ray background…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Shlomo Dado , Arnon Dar , A De Rujula

Gamma ray bursts (GRB) occur at random points in the sky at cosmological distances. The spectra evolve through X-ray, optical region to possibly radio frequency. Though there are some models, the origin and time evolution of GRB are not…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Manoj Thulasidas

The origin of prompt emission from gamma ray bursts remains to be an open question. Correlated prompt optical and gamma-ray emission observed in a handful of GRBs strongly suggests a common emission region, but failure to adequately fit the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-21 S. Guiriec , C. Kouveliotou , D. H. Hartmann , J. Granot , K. Asano , P. Meszaros , R. Gill , N. Gehrels , J. McEnery

The mechanism that causes the prompt-emission episode of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is still widely debated despite there being thousands of prompt detections. The favoured internal shock model relates this emission to synchrotron radiation.…