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Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have been considered as potential very high-energy photon emitters due to the large amount of energy released as well as the strong magnetic fields involved in their jets. However, the detection of TeV photons is not…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-01 M. M. González , D. Avila Rojas , A. Pratts , S Hernández-Cadena , N. Fraija , R. Alfaro , Y. Pérez Araujo , J. A. Montes

In the framework of the internal shock scenario, we model the broadband prompt emission of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) with emphasis on the GeV-TeV bands, utilizing Monte Carlo simulations that include various processes associated with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Katsuaki Asano , Susumu Inoue

Within the internal shock scenario we consider different mechanisms of high energy ($>1$ MeV) photon production inside a Gamma Ray Burst (GRB) fireball and derive the expected high energy photon spectra from individual GRBs during the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Nayantara Gupta , Bing Zhang

It has been suggested that electromagnetic cascade of very high energy gamma-rays from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) in the infrared/microwave background can produce delayed MeV-GeV photons. This delay could be caused by the angular spreading…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 X. Y. Wang , K. S. Cheng , Z. G. Dai , T. Lu

TeV gamma rays emitted by GRBs are converted into electron-positron pairs via interactions with the extragalactic infrared radiation fields. In turn the pairs produced, whose trajectories are randomized by magnetic fields, will inverse…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-11 S. Casanova , B. L. Dingus , Bing Zhang

Long-duration GRBs are the most luminous sources of electromagnetic radiation known in the Universe. Their initial prompt flashes of MeV gamma rays are followed by longer-lasting afterglow emission from radio waves to GeV gamma rays.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-08 Razmik Mirzoyan

Bright optical and X-ray flares have been observed in many Gamma-ray Burst (GRB) afterglows. These flares have been attributed to late activity of the central engine. In most cases the peak energy is not known and it is possible and even…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yizhong Fan , Tsvi Piran

A gamma-ray burst (GRB) jet running into an external medium is expected to generate luminous GeV-TeV emission lasting from minutes to several hours. The high-energy emission results from inverse Compton upscattering of prompt and afterglow…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-20 Indrek Vurm , Andrei M. Beloborodov

Shock breakout X-ray emission has been reported for the first time from a supernova connected with a gamma-ray burst, namely GRB060218/SN2006aj. The gamma-ray emission and the power-law decaying X-ray afterglow are ascribed to a highly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Xiang-Yu Wang , Peter Meszaros

The gamma-rays from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are believed to be produced by internal shocks driven by small timescale, ~1 ms, variation in the GRB outflows, and a pair-production spectral cutoff is generally expected around the GeV range.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-15 Zhuo Li

The Fermi satellite has been reporting the detailed temporal properties of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) in an extremely broad spectral range, 8 keV - 300 GeV, in particular, the unexpected delays of the GeV emission onsets behind the MeV…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-12-18 Kenji Toma , Xue-Feng Wu , Peter Meszaros

Fermi gamma-ray telescope data of GRB 080916C with ~1e55 erg in apparent isotropic gamma-ray energy, show a several second delay between the rise of 100 MeV - GeV radiation compared with keV - MeV radiation. Here we show that synchrotron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-09-06 Soebur Razzaque , Charles D. Dermer , Justin D. Finke

Recent detections of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) at TeV energies opened new prospects for investigating radiative environments and particle acceleration mechanisms under extreme conditions. In this paper, we study the afterglows of these GRBs -…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-27 L. Foffano , M. Tavani

The extreme energetics of the gamma-ray burst (GRB) 990123 has revealed that some of GRBs emit quite a large amount of energy, and total energy release from GRBs seems to change from burst to burst by a factor of 10^{2-3} as E_{gamma, iso}…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Tomonori Totani

Gamma Ray Burst sources are apparently evolving around us in a harder and brighter samples at far and far redshift. The average output may range from a near Supernova (nearest events) output to a billion time that power for most distant…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-06-18 Daniele Fargion

The optical light that is generated simultaneously with the x-rays and gamma-rays during a gamma-ray burst (GRB) provides clues about the nature of the explosions that occur as massive stars collapse to form black holes. We report on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 W. T. Vestrand , J. Wren , A. Panaitescu , P. Wozniak , H. Davis , D. Palmer , G. Vianello , N. Omodei , S. Xiong , M. Briggs , M. Elphick , W. Rosing

Hints for a GeV component in the emission from GRBs are known since the EGRET observations during the '90s and they have been recently confirmed by the data of the Fermi satellite. These results have, however, shown that a fully…

GRB 220627A, detected by Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM), shows two episodes of gamma-ray emission, which are separated by a {$\sim$700} s long quiescent phase. Due to similar temporal shapes and spectra in the two episodes, GRB 220627A…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-29 Yi-Yun Huang , Hai-Ming Zhang , Kai Yan , Ruo-Yu Liu , Xiang-Yu Wang

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) that emit photons at GeV energies form a small but significant population of GRBs. However, the number of GRBs whose GeV-emitting period is simultaneously observed in X-rays remains small. We report gamma-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-08-01 P. H. Thomas Tam , Albert K. H. Kong , Yi-Zhong Fan

Observations suggest that gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are produced by the dissipation of the kinetic energy of a relativistic fireball. In this talk, recent work on the production of high energy neutrinos by GRB fireballs is reviewed. A…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Eli Waxman