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Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are the brightest objects observed. They are also the most relativistic objects known so far. GRBs occur when an ultrarelativisitic ejecta is slowed down by internal shocks within the flow. Relativistic particles…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Tsvi Piran

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

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are bright flashes of gamma-rays coming from the cosmos. They occur roughly once per day, last typically 10s of seconds and are the most luminous events in the universe. More than three decades after their discovery,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-09-03 Neil Gehrels , Peter Meszaros

For a few seconds a gamma-ray burst (GRB) becomes the brightest object in the Universe, over-shining the rest of the Universe combined! Clearly this reflects extreme conditions that are fascinating and worth exploring. The recent discovery…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Tsvi Piran

Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) are unpredictable and brief flashes of gamma rays that occur about once a day in random locations in the sky. Since gamma rays do not penetrate the Earth's atmosphere, they are detected by satellites, which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 A. Gomboc

This article gives an overview of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and their relation to astroparticle physics and cosmology. GRBs are the most powerful explosions in the universe that occur roughly once per day and are characterized by flashes of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-27 Jakub Ripa

Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are the most powerful cosmic explosions since the Big Bang, and thus act as signposts throughout the distant Universe. Over the last 2 decades, these ultra-luminous cosmological explosions have been transformed from…

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most luminous electromagnetic explosions in the Universe, which emit up to $8.8\times10^{54}$ erg isotropic equivalent energy in the hard X-ray band. The high luminosity makes them detectable out to the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 F. Y. Wang , Z. G. Dai , E. W. Liang

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are among the most violent occurrences in the universe. They are powerful explosions, visible to high redshift, and thought to be the signature of black hole birth. They are highly luminous events and provide…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-02-04 Neil Gehrels , Soebur Razzaque

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most luminous electromagnetic burst in the Universe. They occur when a rapidly rotating massive star collapses or a binary neutron star merges. These events leave a newborn central compact object, either a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-15 Shigeo S. Kimura

Gamma-ray bursts are flashes of high-energy radiation lasting from a fraction of a second to several hours. Military satellites made the first detections of GRBs in the late 1960s. The $\gamma$-ray emission forms from shocks in a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-08 Andrew J. Levan

Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) - short bursts of 100-1MeV photons arriving from random directions in the sky are probably the most relativistic objects discovered so far. Still, somehow they did not attract the attention of the relativistic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-23 Tsvi Piran

Long Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are the brightest electromagnetic explosions in the Universe, associated to the death of massive stars. As such, GRBs are potential tracers of the evolution of the cosmic massive star formation, metallicity, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-01 V. Avila-Reese , C. Firmani , G. Ghisellini , J. I. Cabrera

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

Gamma-ray bursts (GRB) are sudden, intense flashes of gamma-rays which, for a few blinding seconds, light up in an otherwise fairly dark gamma-ray sky. They are detected at the rate of about once a day, and while they are on, they outshine…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 P. Meszaros

Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are the strongest explosions in the Universe, which due to their extreme character likely involve some of the strongest magnetic fields in nature. This review discusses the possible roles of magnetic fields in GRBs,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-08 Jonathan Granot , Tsvi Piran , Omer Bromberg , Judith L. Racusin , Frédéric Daigne

Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are the must violent explosions after the Big-Bang. Their high energy radiation can potentially carry information about the most inner part of the accretion disk of a collapsing star, ionize the surrounding material…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-12-19 Houri Ziaeepour

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 among the most mysterious astronomical phenomenon ever discovered. Unlike most astronomical discoveries which were explained within weeks or months after their initial discovery, GRBs remain a puzzle for more than…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tsvi Piran

Gamma-ray bursts (GRB) are short and intense bursts of $\sim$100 keV$-$1MeV photons, usually followed by long-lasting decaying afterglow emission in a wide range of electromagnetic wavelengths from radio to X-ray and, sometimes, even to GeV…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-05 Yun-Wei Yu , He Gao , Fa-Yin Wang , Bin-Bin Zhang
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