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We extend a method for modeling synchrotron and synchrotron self-Compton radiations in blazar jets to include external Compton processes. The basic model assumption is that the blazar radio through soft X-ray flux is nonthermal synchrotron…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-07 Charles D. Dermer , Justin D. Finke , Hannah Krug , Markus Boettcher

The prompt GRB emission is thought to arise from electrons accelerated in internal shocks propagating within a highly relativistic outflow. The launch of Fermi offers the prospect of observations with unprecedented sensitivity in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Z. Bosnjak , F. Daigne , G. Dubus

A characteristic energy of individual gamma-ray burst (GRB) spectra can in most cases be determined from the peak energy of the energy density spectra ($\nu{\cal F}_{\nu}$), called '$E_{\rm peak}$'. Distributions of $E_{\rm peak}$ have been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-20 Robert Preece , Adam Goldstein , Narayana Bhat , Matthew Stanbro , Jon Hakkila , Dylan Blalock

Gonz\'alez et al. (2003) have reported the discovery of an anomalous radiation component from ~ 1 -- 200 MeV in GRB 941017. This component varies independently of and contains >~ 3 times the energy found in the prompt ~ 50 keV -- 1 MeV…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. D. Dermer , A. Atoyan

$\gamma$-ray bursts (GRBs) have puzzled astronomers since their accidental discovery in the sixties. The BATSE detector on COMPTON-GRO satellite has been detecting GRBs for the last four years at a rate of one burst per day. Its findings…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tsvi Piran

The high energy emission from Gamma-ray Bursts has some interesting features, including the absence of the GeV excess in the prompt spectrum, the delayed onset of the GeV emission, and the longer duration of the GeV emission than the prompt…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-16 Yi-Zhong Fan

Sari, Piran, and Narayan have derived analytic formulas to model the spectra from gamma-ray burst blast waves that are energized by sweeping up material from the surrounding medium. We extend these expressions to apply to general radiative…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 C. D. Dermer , M. Boettcher , J. Chiang

The all-sky survey in high-energy gamma rays (E$>$30 MeV) carried out by the Energetic Gamma Ray Experiment Telescope (EGRET) aboard the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory provides a unique opportunity to examine in detail the diffuse gamma-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-05 P. Sreekumar

Soft Gamma Repeaters (SGRs) are a class of rare, high-energy galactic transients that have episodes of short (~0.1 sec), soft (~30 keV), intense (~100 Crab), gamma-ray bursts. We report an analysis of the x-ray emission from 95 SGR1806-20…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 E. E. Fenimore , J. G. Laros , A. Ulmer

The all-sky surveys in gamma-rays by the imaging Compton telescope (COMPTEL) and the Energetic Gamma Ray Experiment Telescope (EGRET) on board the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory for the first time allows detailed studies of the extragalactic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 P. Sreekumar , F. W. Stecker , S. C. Kappadath

The Galactic diffuse soft gamma-ray (30-800 keV) emission has been measured from the Galactic Center by the HIREGS balloon-borne germanium spectrometer to determine the spectral characteristics and origin of the emission. The resulting…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. E. Boggs , R. P. Lin , S. Slassi-Sennou , W. Coburn , R. M. Pelling

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

A nearby super-luminous burst GRB 130427A was simultaneously detected by six $\gamma$-ray space telescopes ({\it Swift}, Fermi-GBM/LAT, Konus-Wind, SPI-ACS/INTEGRAL, AGILE and RHESSI) and by three RAPTOR full-sky persistent monitors. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-10-09 Yi-Zhong Fan , P. H. T. Tam , Fu-Wen Zhang , Yun-Feng Liang , Hao-Ning He , Bei Zhou , Rui-Zhi Yang , Zhi-Ping Jin , Da-Ming Wei

Although the physical origin of prompt emission in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) remains inconclusive, previous studies have considered the synchrotron radiation of relativistic electrons as a promising mechanism. These works usually adopted a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-22 Kuan Liu , Da-Bin Lin , Kai Wang , Li Zhou , Xiang-Gao Wang , En-Wei Liang

We revisit the radiation mechanism of relativistic electrons in the stochastic magnetic field and apply it to the high-energy emissions of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). We confirm that jitter radiation is a possible explanation for GRB prompt…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-03-28 J. Mao , J. Wang

It has been suggested that cosmological gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) can produce the observed flux of cosmic rays at the highest energies. However, recent studies of GRBs indicate that their redshift distribution likely follows that of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. T. Scully , F. W. Stecker

A point-like source of ~TeV gamma-rays has recently been seen towards the Galactic center by HESS and other air Cerenkov telescopes. In recent work (Ballantyne et al. 2007), we demonstrated that these gamma-rays can be attributed to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Roland M. Crocker , David Jones , David R. Ballantyne , Fulvio Melia

GRB 190114C, a long and luminous burst, was detected by several satellites and ground-based telescopes from radio wavelengths to GeV gamma-rays. In the GeV gamma-rays, the Fermi LAT detected 48 photons above 1 GeV during the first hundred…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-09 N. Fraija , R. Barniol Duran , S. Dichiara , P. Beniamini

Observations of galactic BHCs made by the Compton GRO in the hard X-ray and gamma-ray bands have significantly enhanced our knowledge of the emission properties of these objects. Understanding these observations presents a formidable…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-13 J. E. Grove , J. E. Grindlay , B. A. Harmon , X. -M. Hua , D. Kazanas , M. McConnell

The paper is devoted to the analysis of particle acceleration in Gamma-Ray Bursts and its radiative consequences. Therefore we get on one hand constraints on the physics and on the other hand possible signatures of particle acceleration…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Denis Gialis , Guy Pelletier
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