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Recent observations suggest that the long-duration gamma ray bursts (GRBs) and their afterglows are produced by highly relativistic jets emitted in supernova explosions. We propose that the result of the event is not just a compact object…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Arnon Dar , Alvaro De Rujula

The degree to which gamma ray bursts are collimated is now the dominant uncertainty in their energy requirements and event rates. In this review I begin with the reasons for studying GRB collimation, then discuss existing tests for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 James E. Rhoads

We study afterglow flares of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) in the framework of the late internal shock (LIS) model based on a careful description for the dynamics of a pair of shocks generated by a collision between two homogeneous shells,.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-14 Y. W. Yu , Z. G. Dai

Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are the brightest objects observed. They are also the most relativistic objects known so far. GRBs occur when an ultrarelativisitic ejecta is slowed down by internal shocks within the flow. Relativistic particles…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Tsvi Piran

Blackbody-dominated (BBD) gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are events characterized by long durations and the presence of a significant thermal component following the prompt emission, as well as by the absence of a typical afterglow. GRB 101225A is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Carlos F. Cuesta-Martínez , Miguel-Ángel Aloy , Petar Mimica , Christina C. Thöne , Antonio de Ugarte-Postigo

The properties of the cosmic Gamma-ray Bursts (GRBs) are briefly summarized. A detailed bibliography is given with titles of the papers. Two fundamental theoretical problems are pointed out: the problem of the energy source, and the problem…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 S. Blinnikov

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), which have isotropic energy up to $10^{54}$ erg, would be the ideal tool to study the properties of early universe: including dark energy, star formation rate, and the metal enrichment history of the Universe. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-07-20 F. Y. Wang

Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) - short bursts of 100-1MeV photons arriving from random directions in the sky are probably the most relativistic objects discovered so far. Still, somehow they did not attract the attention of the relativistic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-23 Tsvi Piran

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

Using GRB 991216 as a prototype, it is shown that the intensity substructures observed in what is generally called the "prompt emission" in gamma ray bursts (GRBs) do originate in the collision between the accelerated baryonic matter (ABM)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Ruffini , C. L. Bianco , P. Chardonnet , F. Fraschetti , S. -S. Xue

A strong correlation is reported between gamma-ray burst (GRB) pulse lags and afterglow jet-break times for the set of bursts (seven) with known redshifts, luminosities, pulse lags, and jet-break times. This may be a valuable clue toward…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jay D. Salmonson

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are brief but intense emission of soft $\gamma-$rays, mostly lasting from a few seconds to a few thousand seconds. For such kind of high energy transients, their isotropic-equivalent-energy ($E_{\rm iso}$) function…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-07-18 Shi-Wei Wu , Dong Xu , Fu-Wen Zhang , Da-Ming Wei

Sari and Piran have demonstrated that the time structure of gamma-ray bursts must reflect the time structure of their energy release. A model which satisfies this condition uses the electrodynamic emission of energy by the magnetized…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 J. I. Katz

According to current models, gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are produced when the energy carried by a relativistic outflow is dissipated and converted into radiation. The efficiency of this process, $\epsilon_\gamma$, is one of the critical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jonathan Granot , Arieh Konigl , Tsvi Piran

For the first time, a short gamma-ray burst (GRB) was unambiguously associated with a gravitational wave (GW) observation from a binary neutron star (NS) merger. This allows us to link the details of the central engine properties to GRB…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-22 P. Veres , P. Mészáros , A. Goldstein , N. Fraija , V. Connaughton , E. Burns , R. D. Preece , R. Hamburg , C. A. Wilson-Hodge , M. S. Briggs , D. Kocevski

In almost any scenario for 'cosmological' gamma-ray bursts (and in many models where they originate in our own Galaxy), the initial energy density is so large that the resulting relativistic plasma expands with $v\sim c$ producing a blast…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 P. Meszaros , M. J. Rees

Correlations among pulse properties in the prompt emission of long GRBs can potentially be used as cosmological distance indicators to estimate redshifts of GRBs to which these pulses belong. We demonstrate application of this technique to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-06-25 Jon Hakkila , P. Chris Fragile , Timothy W. Giblin

We present our numerical results of two-dimensional hydrodynamic (HD) simulations and magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of the collapse of rotating massive stars in light of the collapsar model of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Pushed by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-12-21 Seiji Harikae , Tomoya Takiwaki , Kei Kotake

Observations imply that gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are produced by the dissipation of the kinetic energy of a highly relativistic fireball. Photo-meson interactions of protons with gamma-rays within the fireball dissipation region are expected…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dafne Guetta

Since their identification with cosmological distances, Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have been recognised as the most energetic phenomena in the Universe, with an isotropic burst energy as high as 10^54 ergs. However, the progenitors responsible…