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Despite more than fifty years of gamma-ray burst (GRB) observations, several questions regarding the origin of the prompt emission, particularly at high energies, remain unresolved. We present a comprehensive analysis of 35 GRBs observed by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-22 Samanta Macera , Biswajit Banerjee , Alessio Mei , Pawan Tiwari , Gor Oganesyan , Marica Branchesi

Recent observations of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) revealed a power law decay feature of the high energy emission (above 100 MeV), which led to the suggestion that it originates from a (probably…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Amanda Maxham , Bin-Bin Zhang , Bing Zhang

A number of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) exhibit the late simultaneous bumps in their optical and Xray afterglows around the jet break. Its origin is unclear. Based on the following two facts, we suggest that this feature may sound a transition…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-24 Xiao-Yan Li , Da-Bin Lin , Jia Ren , Shu-Jin Hou , Yu-Fei Li , Xiang-Gao Wang , En-Wei Liang

Context: Gamma-ray bursts are cosmological sources emitting radiation from the gamma-rays to the radio band. Substantial observational efforts have been devoted to the study of gamma-ray bursts during the prompt phase, i.e. the initial…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 MAGIC Collaboration , J. Aleksić , H. Anderhub , L. A. Antonelli , P. Antoranz , M. Backes , C. Baixeras , S. Balestra , J. A. Barrio , D. Bastieri , J. Becerra González , J. K. Becker , W. Bednarek , A. Berdyugin , K. Berger , E. Bernardini , A. Biland , R. K. Bock , G. Bonnoli , P. Bordas , D. Borla Tridon , V. Bosch-Ramon , D. Bose , I. Braun , T. Bretz , D. Britzger , M. Camara , E. Carmona , A. Carosi , P. Colin , S. Commichau , J. L. Contreras , J. Cortina , M. T. Costado , S. Covino , F. Dazzi , A. De Angelis , E. de Cea del Pozo , R. De los Reyes , B. De Lotto , M. De Maria , F. De Sabata , C. Delgado Mendez , M. Doert , A. Domínguez , D. Dominis Prester , D. Dorner , M. Doro , D. Elsaesser , M. Errando , D. Ferenc , E. Fernández , R. Firpo , M. V. Fonseca , L. Font , N. Galante , R. J. García López , M. Garczarczyk , M. Gaug , N. Godinovic , F. Goebel , D. Hadasch , A. Herrero , D. Hildebrand , D. Höhne-Mönch , J. Hose , D. Hrupec , C. C. Hsu , T. Jogler , S. Klepser , T. Krähenbühl , D. Kranich , A. La Barbera , A. Laille , E. Leonardo , E. Lindfors , S. Lombardi , F. Longo , M. López , E. Lorenz , P. Majumdar , G. Maneva , N. Mankuzhiyil , K. Mannheim , L. Maraschi , M. Mariotti , M. Martínez , D. Mazin , M. Meucci , J. M. Miranda , R. Mirzoyan , H. Miyamoto , J. Moldón , M. Moles , A. Moralejo , D. Nieto , K. Nilsson , J. Ninkovic , R. Orito , I. Oya , R. Paoletti , J. M. Paredes , M. Pasanen , D. Pascoli , F. Pauss , R. G. Pegna , M. A. Perez-Torres , M. Persic , L. Peruzzo , F. Prada , E. Prandini , N. Puchades , I. Puljak , I. Reichardt , W. Rhode , M. Ribó , J. Rico , M. Rissi , S. Rügamer , A. Saggion , T. Y. Saito , M. Salvati , M. Sánchez-Conde , K. Satalecka , V. Scalzotto , V. Scapin , T. Schweizer , M. Shayduk , S. N. Shore , A. Sierpowska-Bartosik , A. Sillanpää , J. Sitarek , D. Sobczynska , F. Spanier , S. Spiro , A. Stamerra , B. Steinke , N. Strah , J. C. Struebig , T. Suric , L. Takalo , F. Tavecchio , P. Temnikov , D. Tescaro , M. Teshima , D. F. Torres , N. Turini , H. Vankov , R. M. Wagner , V. Zabalza , F. Zandanel , R. Zanin , J. Zapatero , A. de Ugarte-Postigo

The detection of multi-TeV gamma-rays from the afterglow phase of GRB 190829A by High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) telescope is an addition to the already existing list of two more GRBs observed in the very high energy (VHE)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-20 Sarira Sahu , Isabel Abigail Valadez Polanco , Subhash Rajpoot

We investigate two high energy radiation mechanisms, the proton synchrotron and the electron inverse Compton emission, and explore their possible signatures in the broad-band spectra and in the keV to GeV light curves of gamma-ray burst…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Bing Zhang , Peter Meszaros

We compute the afterglow of gamma-ray bursts produced by purely electromagnetic outflows to see if it shows characteristic signatures differing from those obtained with the standard internal/external shock model. Using a simple approach for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 F. Genet , F. Daigne , R. Mochkovitch

The synchrotron optical flash caught in GRB 990123 overlaps with the MeV radiation front, and the optical-emitting electrons must also produce GeV-TeV emission by inverse Compton scattering of MeV photons. The ultra-high-energy flash can be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Andrei M. Beloborodov

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

GRB 131231A was detected by the Large Area Telescope onboard Fermi Space Gamma-ray Telescope. The high energy gamma-ray ($> 100$ MeV) afterglow emission spectrum is $F_\nu \propto \nu^{-0.54\pm0.15}$ in the first $\sim 1300$ s after the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Bin Liu , Wei Chen , Yun-Feng Liang , Bei Zhou , Hao-Ning He , Pak-Hin Thomas Tam , Lang Shao , Zhi-Ping Jin , Yi-Zhong Fan , Da-Ming Wei

The Swift XRT has been observing GRB afterglows since December 23, 2004. Three-quarters of these observations begin within 300 s of the burst onset, providing an unprecendented look at the behavior of X-ray emission from GRB afterglows in…

We study the emission observed at energies greater than 100 MeV of 11 Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) detected by the Fermi/Large Area Telescope (LAT) until October 2009. The GeV emission has three main properties: (i) its duration is often longer…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 G. Ghisellini , G. Ghirlanda , L. Nava , A. Celotti

The TeV observations of GRB~221009A provided us with a unique opportunity to analyze the contemporaneous phase in which both prompt and afterglow emissions are seen simultaneously. To describe this initial phase of Gamma-Ray Burst…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-05 Evgeny Derishev , Tsvi Piran

Highly variable gamma-ray pulses and X-ray flares in GRB light curves can result from external shocks rather than central engine activity under the assumption that the GRB blast-wave shell does not spread. Acceleration of cosmic rays to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 Charles D. Dermer

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are one of the most exciting sources that offer valuable opportunities for investigating the evolution of energy fraction given to magnetic fields and particles through microphysical parameters during relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-07 Nissim Fraija , Maria G. Dainotti , Boris Betancourt Kamenetskaia , Antonio Galván-Gámez , Edilberto Aguilar-Ruiz

Until recently, X-ray flares during the afterglow of gamma ray bursts (GRBs) were a rarely detected phenomenon, thus their nature is unclear. During the afterglow of GRB 050502B, the largest X-ray flare ever recorded rose rapidly above the…

The study of the early high-energy emission from both long and short Gamma-ray bursts has been revolutionized by the Swift mission. The rapid response of Swift shows that the non-thermal X-ray emission transitions smoothly from the prompt…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 P. T. O'Brien , R. Willingale , J. P. Osborne , M. R. Goad

The nature of the shallow decay phase in the X-ray afterglow of the gamma-ray burst (GRB) is not yet clarified. We analyze the data of early X-ray afterglows of 26 GRBs triggered by Burst Alert Telescope onboard Neil Gehrels Swift…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-26 Ryo Yamazaki , Yuri Sato , Takanori Sakamoto , Motoko Serino

The observations of TeV blazars published recently show an unexpected quadratic or even cubic correlation between the X-ray and gamma-ray emission. A standard model of the synchrotron self-Compton emission of a compact source inside a jet…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 K. Katarzynski , K. Walczewska

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