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By considering synchrotron radiative process in the internal shock model and assuming that all internal shocks are nearly equally energetic, we analyze the gamma-ray burst (GRB) emission at different radii corresponding to different…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Y. C. Zou , Z. G. Dai , D. Xu

Gamma-ray burst (GRB) engines are probed most intimately during the prompt gamma-ray luminous phase when the expanding blast wave is closest to the explosion center. Using GRBs 990123 and 940217 as guides, we briefly review observations of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Charles D. Dermer , James Chiang

Models for GRB outflows invoke turbulence in relativistically hot magnetized fluids. In order to investigate these conditions we have performed high-resolution three-dimensional numerical simulations of relativistic magneto-hydrodynamical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-09-29 Jonathan Zrake , Andrew MacFadyen

Multiple rebrightenings have been observed in the multiband afterglow of GRB 030329. Especially, a marked and quick rebrightening occurred at about t ~ 1.2 * 10^5 s. Energy injection from late and slow shells seems to be the best…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 Wei Deng , Yong-Feng Huang , Si-Wei Kong

We treat the problem of adiabatic losses and stochastic particle acceleration in gamma-ray burst (GRB) blast waves that decelerate by sweeping up matter from an external medium. The shocked fluid is assumed to be represented by a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Charles D. Dermer , Mayer Humi

The jet opening angle theta_jet and the bulk Lorentz factor Gamma_0 are crucial parameters for the computation of the energetics of Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs). From the ~30 GRBs with measured theta_jet or Gamma_0 it is known that: (i) the real…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 G. Ghirlanda , G. Ghisellini , R. Salvaterra , L. Nava , D. Burlon , G. Tagliaferri , S. Campana , P. D'Avanzo , A. Melandri

Magnetic field may distort neutron stars (NSs), but its effect has not been robustly tested through gravitational-wave observation yet due to the absence of a fast rotating Galactic magnetar. Part of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are potential to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-19 Tingting Lin , Shuang Du , Weihua Wang , Shujin Hou , Renxin Xu

We employ a fireball model of the GRB explosion to constrain intrinsic and environmental parameters of four events with good broadband afterglow data; GRB970508, GRB980329, GRB980703, and GRB000926. Using standard assumptions of constant…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. A. Yost , F. A. Harrison , R. Sari , D. A. Frail

In this Letter, we propose that a microphysical process takes a vital role in the shocked region in which the prompt emission of GRBs is emitted. The turbulent energy is included in the internal energy transferred by the kinetic energy of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-01-08 Jirong Mao , Jiancheng Wang

Since the launch of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope on 11 June 2008, significant detections of high energy emission have been reported only in six Gamma-ray Bursts (GRBs) until now. In this work we show that the lack of detection of a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-29 Yi-Zhong Fan

We present a model for the temporal variability of long gamma-ray bursts during the prompt phase (the highly variable first 100 seconds or so), in the context of a magnetically arrested disk (MAD) around a black hole. In this state,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-14 Nicole Lloyd-Ronning , Joshua C. Dolence , Christopher L. Fryer

Previous studies have considered synchrotron as the emission mechanism for prompt Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs). These works have shown that the electrons must cool on a timescale comparable to the dynamic time at the source in order to satisfy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-28 Paz Beniamini , Rodolfo Barniol Duran , Dimitrios Giannios

Recent Swift observations suggest that the traditional long vs. short GRB classification scheme does not always associate GRBs to the two physically motivated model types, i.e. Type II (massive star origin) vs. Type I (compact star origin).…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-04-04 Houjun Lv , Enwei Liang , Binbin Zhang , Bing Zhang

In this work we estimate the accretion-disk mass in the specific scenario of binary-neutron-star-merger with current observational data. Assuming that the outflows of short Gamma-ray Bursts (GRBs) are driven via neutrino-antineutrino…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-18 Yi-Zhong Fan , Da-Ming Wei

In this paper, we simulate the gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) prompt emission light curve, spectrum and $E_p$ evolution patterns within the framework of the Internal-Collision-induced MAgnetic Reconnection and Turbulence (ICMART) model. We show…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-30 Xueying Shao , He Gao

We show that the relativistic two-stream instability can naturally generate strong magnetic fields with 1e-5 - 1e-1 of the equipartition energy density, in the collisionless shocks of Gamma-Ray-Burst (GRB) sources. The generated fields are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Mikhail V. Medvedev , Abraham Loeb

Cosmological gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) could be driven by dissipation of pure electromagnetic energy (Poynting flux) extracted from rapidly rotating compact objects with strong magnetic fields. One such possibility is a young millisecond…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Insu Yi , Eric G. Blackman

We calculate the synchrotron self-Compton emission from internal shocks occurring in relativistic winds as a source of gamma-ray bursts, with allowance for self-absorption. For plausible model parameters most pulses within a Gamma-Ray Burst…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Panaitescu , P. Meszaros

We consider the phenomenon of a gamma-ray burst as a nonlinear collapse of a magnetic cavity surrounding a neutron star with very strong magnetic field B = 10^15 - 10^16 G due to the process of the bubble shape instability in a resonant MHD…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Yu. N. Gnedin , S. O. Kiikov

The standard external shock model in the thin-shell scenario predicts an onset bump in the early optical afterglow light curves of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). We collect such a textbook-version light curve sample of $30$ GRBs, and derive the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-14 Lu-Lu Zhang , Shu-Qing Zhong , Li-Ping Xin , En-Wei Liang