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A hyperaccreting stellar-mass black hole (BH) has been proposed as the candidate central engine of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Comparing the predictions from the central engine models with the temporal behavior of GRBs is of great interest. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-17 Wei-Hua Lei

Gamma-ray bursts with long durations are widely thought to arise from the collapse of massive stars, where the wind environment is unavoidable. It is also believed that $\gamma$-ray bursts come from jets. Considering these two points in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 L. J. Gou , Z. G. Dai , Y. F. Huang , T. Lu

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have been thought to originate from internal shocks that occur about 10^{15} cm from a central site. The shells responsible for these shocks merge together and undergo an external shock at about 10^{17} cm, producing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. E. Fenimore , E. Ramirez-Ruiz

If the threshold for $e^{-}e^{+}$ pair production depends on an angle between photon momenta, and if the $\gamma$-rays are collimated right in gamma-ray burst (GRB) source then another solution of the compactness problem is possible. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-05-22 V. V. Sokolov

Most models for blazars and gamma-ray bursts involve relativistic plasma outflows powered by accretion processes onto black holes. The blast wave physics developed for cosmological models of GRBs is reviewed. Two points relevant for blazar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Charles D. Dermer , James Chiang

Optically thick energy dominated plasma created in the source of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) expands radially with acceleration and forms a shell with constant width measured in the laboratory frame. When strong Lorentz factor gradients are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-09-17 R. Ruffini , I. A. Siutsou , G. V. Vereshchagin

We use a new method of analysis to determine parameters of cosmological gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), assuming that their distribution follows the star-formation history of the universe. Spectral evolution is calculated from an external shock…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 M. Boettcher , C. D. Dermer

It was suggested that the relativistic jets in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are powered via the Blandford-Znajek (BZ) mechanism or the annihilation of neutrinos and anti-neutrinos from a neutrino cooling-dominated accretion flow (NDAF). The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Xinwu Cao , En-Wei Liang , Ye-Fei Yuan

Extreme sources in the Transient Universe show evidence of relativistic outflows from intermittent inner engines, such as cosmological gamma-ray bursts. They probably derive from rotating back holes interacting with surrounding matter. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Maurice H. P. M. van Putten

Millisecond pulsars with strong magnetic fields may be formed through several processes, e.g. accretion-induced collapse of magnetized white dwarfs, merger of two neutron stars. During the birth of such a pulsar, an initial fireball…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Z. G. Dai , T. Lu

A review is presented of the fireball model of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), and of the production in GRB fireballs of high energy protons and neutrinos. Constraints imposed on the model by recent afterglow observations, which support the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eli Waxman

The existence of strong correlation between the peak luminosity (and/or bolometric energetics) of Gamma Ray Bursts (GRB) is one of the most intrigue problem of GRB physics. This correlation is not yet understood. Here we demonstrate that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-08-22 M. Yu. Piotrovich , Yu. N. Gnedin , T. M. Natsvlishvili

The electromagnetic signature of a point explosion near a Kerr black hole (BH) is evaluated. The first repetitions produced by gravitational lensing are not periodic in time; periodicity emerges only as the result of multiple circuits of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-09 Christopher Thompson

We investigate the possible origin of extended emissions (EEs) of short gamma-ray bursts with an isotropic energy of ~ 10^(50-51) erg and a duration of a few 10 s to ~ 100 s, based on a compact binary (neutron star (NS)-NS or NS-black hole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Takashi Nakamura , Kazumi Kashiyama , Daisuke Nakauchi , Yudai Suwa , Takanori Sakamoto , Nobuyuki Kawai

X-ray flares in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are believed to be generated by the late activities of central engine, and thus provide an useful tool to diagnose the properties of central objects. In this paper, we work on a GRB X-ray flare sample…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-11 Shuang-Xi Yi , Wei Xie , Shuai-Bing Ma , Wei-Hua Lei , Mei Du

We calculate the evolution of the prompt intrinsic Poynting power generated by merging black holes. Orbiting black holes induce rotation of the space-time. In a presence of magnetic field supported by an accretion disk outside of the orbit,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-12-22 Maxim Lyutikov

In these proceedings, I discuss recent progress in understanding the nature of cosmic gamma-ray bursts (GRB), with the focus on the apparent relation of several GRBs with an energetic subclass of stellar explosions, type Ib/c core-collapse…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. A. Postnov

It is shown that an ultrarelativistic shock with the Lorentz factor of order of tens or higher propagating in a moderately dense interstellar medium (density above $\sim 1000 $ cm$^{-3}$) undergoes a fast dramatic transformation into a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Boris E. Stern

In the external shock model, gamma-ray burst (GRB) emissions are produced by the energization and deceleration of a thin relativistic blast wave due to its interactions with the circumburst medium (CBM). We study the physical properties of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Charles D. Dermer , Markus Boettcher , J. Chiang

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are classified into long and short populations (i.e., LGRBs and SGRBs) based on the observed bimodal distribution of duration $T_{90}$. Multimessenger observations indicated that most SGRBs and LGRBs should be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-21 Yun-Feng Wei , Tong Liu