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The dissipation mechanism that powers gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) remains uncertain almost half a century after their discovery. The two main competing mechanisms are the extensively studied internal shocks and the less studied magnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-07 Jonathan Granot

The long-term evolution of relativistic jets in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), particularly from days to months post-burst, remains a fundamental puzzle in astrophysics. Here, we report our very long baseline interferometry observation of the…

Compact binary mergers, with neutron stars or neutron star and black-hole components, are thought to produce various electromagnetic counterparts: short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) from ultra-relativistic jets followed by broadband afterglow;…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-28 Gavin P Lamb , Shiho Kobayashi

We propose a straightforward and efficient mechanism for the high-energy emission of relativistic astrophysical jets associated with an exchange of interacting high-energy photons between the jet and the external environment. Physical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Boris E. Stern , Juri Poutanen

Long duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are thought to be produced by the core-collapse of a rapidly-rotating massive star. This event generates a highly relativistic jet and prompt gamma-ray and X-ray emission arises from internal shocks in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 N. Lyons , P. T. O'Brien , B. Zhang , R. Willingale , E. Troja , R. L. C. Starling

We use relativistic hydrodynamic numerical calculations to study the interaction between a jet and a homologous outflow produced dynamically during binary neutron star mergers. We quantify how the thermal energy supplied by the jet to the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-17 Paul C. Duffell , Eliot Quataert , Daniel Kasen , Hannah Klion

Relativistic jets in Galactic superluminals and extragalactic AGN may be surrounded by a wind near to the central engine. Theoretical analysis and numerical simulation reveal considerable stabilization of relativistic jet flow by a wind to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Philip E. Hardee , Philip A. Hughes

Jet precession is considered to universally exist in different-scale astronomical phenomena, including gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). For the long-lived GRB central engine, the relativistical precessing jets will periodically inject kinetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-11 Bao-Quan Huang , Tong Liu

We perform a series of relativistic magnetohydrodynamics simulations to investigate how a hot magnetic jet propagates within the dynamical ejecta of a binary neutron star merger, with the focus on how the jet structure depends on the delay…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-12 Jin-Jun Geng , Bing Zhang , Anders Kölligan , Rolf Kuiper , Yong-Feng Huang

We consider the interaction between radiation, matter and a magnetic field in a compact, relativistic jet. The entrained matter accelerates outward as the jet breaks out of a star or other confining medium. In some circumstances, such as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Matthew Russo , Christopher Thompson

We consider the explosion of supernovae and the possible production of a variety of high energy transients by delayed black hole formation in massive stars endowed with rotation. Following the launch of a ``successful'' shock by the usual…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 A. I. MacFadyen , S. E. Woosley , A. Heger

Although the observed spectra for gamma-ray burst (GRB) prompt emission is well constrained, the underlying radiation mechanism is still not very well understood. We explore photospheric emission in GRB jets by modelling the Comptonization…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-29 Mukul Bhattacharya , Pawan Kumar

A persistent, thin, micro-nano sr. beamed gamma jet, may be ejected from BH and Pulsars, powered by ultra-relativistic electron pairs. These jet while precessing and spinning are originated by Inverse Compton and-or Synchrotron Radiation at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 D. Fargion , O. Lanciano , P. Oliva

{\it Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope} observations of GRB110721A have revealed two emission components from the relativistic jet: emission from the photosphere, peaking at $\sim 100$ keV and a non-thermal component, which peaks at $\sim…

The precise origin of short gamma ray bursts (SGRBs) remains an important open question in relativistic astrophysics. Increasingly, observational evidence suggests the merger of a binary compact object system as the source for most SGRBs,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-03-21 Nicholas Stone , Abraham Loeb , Edo Berger

We construct a simple but self-consistent collapsar model for gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and SNe associated with GRBs (GRB-SNe).Our model includes a black hole, an accretion disk, and the envelope surrounding the central system.The evolutions…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-21 Tomoyasu Hayakawa , Keiichi Maeda

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are powered by relativistic jets that exhibit intermittency over a broad range of timescales - from $ \sim $ ms to seconds. Previous numerical studies have shown that hydrodynamic (i.e., unmagnetized) jets that are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-28 Ore Gottlieb , Omer Bromberg , Amir Levinson , Ehud Nakar

The gamma ray burst apparent average isotropic power versus their red-shift of all known GRB (Sept.2009) is reported. It calls for an unrealistic Gamma Ray Burst Evolution around us or it just probe the need of a very thin gamma…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 D. Fargion , D. D'Armiento

The first neutron star binary merger detected in gravitational waves, GW170817 and the subsequent detection of its emission across the electromagnetic spectrum showed that these systems are viable progenitors of short $\gamma$-ray bursts…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-03 Ariadna Murguia-Berthier , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz , Fabio De Colle , Agnieszka Janiuk , Stephan Rosswog , William H. Lee

We examine the consequences of a model in which relativistic jets can be triggered in quiescent massive black holes when a geometrically thick and hot accretion disk forms as a result of the tidal disruption of a star. To estimate the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Fabio De Colle , James Guillochon , Jill Naiman , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz