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The long gamma ray bursts (GRBs) may arise from the core collapse of massive stars. However, the long GRB rate does not follow the star formation rate (SFR) at high redshifts. In this Letter, we focus on the binary merger model and consider…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-15 Tomoya Kinugawa , Katsuaki Asano

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are a mixed class of sources consisting of, at least, the long duration and short-hard subclasses, the X-ray flashes, and the low-luminosity GRBs. In all cases, the release of enormous amounts of energy on a short…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-09-24 Charles D. Dermer , Chris L. Fryer

The binary neutron star merger GW170817/GRB170817A confirmed that at least some neutron star mergers are the progenitors of short gamma-ray bursts. Many short gamma-ray bursts have long-term x-ray afterglows that have been interpreted in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-04 Paul D. Lasky , Nikhil Sarin , Greg Ashton

A variety of arguments suggest that the most common form of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), those longer than a few seconds, involve the formation of black holes in supernova-like events. Two kinds of ``collapsar'' models are discussed, those in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. E. Woosley

The pair annihilation of neutrinos $(\nu\overline{\nu}\rightarrow e^+e^-)$ can energize violent stellar explosions such as gamma ray bursts (GRBs). The energy in this neutrino heating mechanism can be further enhanced by modifying the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-05 Tanmay Kumar Poddar , Srubabati Goswami , Arvind Kumar Mishra

Gamma-ray Bursts (GRBs) are bursts of $\gamma$-rays generated from relativistic jets launched from catastrophic events such as massive star core collapse or binary compact star coalescence. Previous studies suggested that GRB emission is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-29 Bin-Bin Zhang , Bing Zhang , Alberto J. Castro-Tirado

Gamma-ray bursts are flashes of high-energy radiation lasting from a fraction of a second to several hours. Military satellites made the first detections of GRBs in the late 1960s. The $\gamma$-ray emission forms from shocks in a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-08 Andrew J. Levan

The merger of a binary neutron star system is suggested as the central engine of short gamma-ray bursts (sGRBs). For the merger process, simulations predict that magnetic field is amplified beyond magnetar field strength by Kelvin-Helmholtz…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-06 Nissim Fraija , William H. Lee , Peter Veres , Rodolfo Barniol Duran

Robust generation of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) implies the formation of outflows with very low baryon loads and highly relativistic velocities, but more baryon-rich, slower outflows are also likely to occur in most GRB central engine…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Susumu Inoue , Nobuyuki Iwamoto , Manabu Orito , Mariko Terasawa

The origin of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is still a fascinating field of research nowadays. While we have been collecting more and more observationally constrained properties of GRB-physics, new theoretical results on the progenitor evolution…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-18 Dorottya Szécsi

Short and long-short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are widely believed to be powered by neutron star mergers. In this work, we calculate local rate of such GRBs and find a relatively high value of $\sim 786-2468~{\rm Gpc^{-3}~yr^{-1}}$ when…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-09 Zhi-Ping Jin , Yuan-Zhu Wang , Yin-Jie Li , Yun Wang , Hao Wang , Shao-Peng Tang , Da-Ming Wei

The time evolution of a Gamma-ray burst (GRB) is associated with the evolution of a supernova remnant (SNR). The time evolution of the flux of a GRB is modeled introducing a law for the density of the medium in the advancing layer. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-06-11 L. Zaninetti

A toy model for gamma-ray burst-supernovae (GRB-SN) is discussed by considering the coexistence of baryon poor outflows from black holes (BHs) and a powerful spin-connection to surrounding disk, giving rise to consistent calorimetry as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 W. H. Lei , D. X. Wang , R. Y. Ma

The merger of two neutron stars has been proposed as a source of gamma-ray bursts, r-process elements, and detectable gravitational waves. Extracting information from observations of these phenomena requires fully relativistic simulations.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Walter Landry , Saul A. Teukolsky

The duration of orbital decay induced by gravitational waves (GWs) is often the bottleneck of the evolutionary phases going from star formation to a merger. We show here that kicks imparted to the newly born compact object during the second…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-03 Paz Beniamini , Tsvi Piran

Gamma-ray Bursts (GRBs) are the most powerful explosions known, capable of outshining the rest of gamma-ray sky during their short-lived prompt emission. Their cosmological nature makes them the best tool to explore the final stages in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-20 A. Cucchiara , T. Totani , N. R. Tanvir

We propose a backscattering dominated prompt emission model for gamma-ray bursts (GRB) prompt phase in which the photons generated through pair annihilation at the centre of the burst are backscattered through Compton scattering by an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-30 Mukesh Kumar Vyas , Asaf Pe'er , David Eichler

We study thermal emission from circumstellar structures heated by gamma-ray burst (GRB) radiation and ejecta and calculate its contribution to GRB optical and X-ray afterglows using the modified radiation hydro-code small STELLA. It is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 D. A. Badjin , S. I. Blinnikov , K. A. Postnov

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

The most popular model for short gamma-ray bursts (sGRBs) involves the coalescence of binary neutron stars. Because the progenitor is actually hidden from view, we must consider under which circumstances such merging systems are capable of…