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A phenomenological model is presented to explain the light curves of gamma-ray bursts. Gamma-rays are produced in a narrow beam which sweeps through space due to the precession of a slaved accretion disc. The light curve expected from such…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Simon Portegies Zwart

An extreme Kerr black hole (BH) surrounded by a precessing disk is invoked to explain the light curves of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) based on the coexistence of the Blandford-Znajek (BZ) and the magnetic coupling (MC) processes. The overall…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-16 W. H. Lei , D. X. Wang , B. P. Gong , C. Y. Huang

We present an internal shock model with external characteristics for explaining the complicated light curves of gamma-ray bursts. Shocks produce gamma-rays in the interaction between a precessing beam of relativistic particles and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Simon Portegies Zwart , Tomonori Totani

Cosmological GRBs are discussed with an emphasis on their plausible connection with black holes. GRBs can be triggered by collapse of stellar-mass objects that leads to formation of a black hole and a transient debris disk with a huge…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Andrei M. Beloborodov

The physical nature of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are believed to involve an ultra-relativistic jet. The observed complex structure of light curves motivate the idea of jet precession. In this work, we study the gravitational waves of jet…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Mou-Yuan Sun , Tong Liu , Wei-Min Gu , Ju-Fu Lu

We study the precession of accretion disks in the context of gamma-ray burst inner engines. Our aim is to quantitatively estimate the characteristics of gravitational waves produced by the precession of the transient accretion disk in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-09-21 Gustavo E. Romero , Matias M. Reynoso , Hugo R. Christiansen

A hyperaccretion disk formed around a stellar mass black hole is a plausible model for the central engine that powers gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). If the central black hole rotates and a poloidal magnetic field threads its horizon, a powerful…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Norita Kawanaka , Tsvi Piran , Julian H. Krolik

X-ray transients appeared in optically non-active galactic nuclei have been observed in recent years. The most popular model explaining this kind of phenomena is the conventional tidal disruption model. In this model, when a star moves…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 A. Y. L. Wong , Y. F. Huang , K. S. Cheng

Striking similarities exist between high energy gamma ray emission from active galactic nuclei (AGN) and gamma ray bursts (GRBs). They suggest that GRBs are generated by inverse Compton scattering from highly relativistic electrons in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Nir J. Shaviv , Arnon Dar

We discuss the possibility that gamma-ray bursts may result from cosmological relativistic blob emitting neutron star jets that precess past the line of sight. Beaming reduces the energy requirements, so that the jet emission can last…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Eric G. Blackman , Insu Yi , George B. Field

The origin of cosmic gamma-ray bursts remains one of the most intriguing puzzles in astronomy. We suggest that purely general relativistic effects in the collapse of massive stars could account for these bursts. The late formation of closed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-12-21 Pankaj Joshi , Naresh Dadhich , Roy Maartens

We suggest that an extreme Kerr black hole with a mass $\sim 10^6M_\odot$, a dimensionless angular momentum $A\sim 1$ and a marginal stable orbital radius $r_{ms}\sim 3r_s\sim 10^{12}M_6 cm$ located in a normal galaxy, may produced a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 K. S. Cheng , Y. Lu

Cosmological gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are probably powered by systems harboring a rotating black hole. These may result from hypernovae or black hole-neutron star coalescence. We identify short/long bursts with hyper- and suspended-accretion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 Maurice H. P. M. van Putten

A model of jet precession driven by a neutrino-cooled disc around a spinning black hole is present in order to explain the temporal structure and spectral evolution of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). The differential rotation of the outer part of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 Tong Liu , En-Wei Liang , Wei-Min Gu , Xiao-Hong Zhao , Zi-Gao Dai , Ju-Fu Lu

Gamma-ray bursts are associated with catastrophic cosmic events. They appear when a new black hole, created after the explosion of a massive star or the merger of two compact stars, quickly accretes the matter around it and ejects a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-02-27 Jean-Luc Atteia

Observations of accreting black holes often provoke suggestions that their jets precess. The precession is usually supposed to result from a combination of the Lense-Thirring effect and accretion disc viscosity. We show that this is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Chris Nixon , Andrew King

The collapsar model was proposed to explain the long-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), while the short GRBs are associated with the mergers of compact objects. In the first case, mainly the energetics of the events is consistent with the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-10 Agnieszka Janiuk , Kostas Sapountzis

We investigate the effects of the convection in the hyperaccretion disk around a stellar-mass black hole, which is considered to be the central engine of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), with simple analytical calculations. If the convective energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Norita Kawanaka , Kazunori Kohri

We propose that gamma-ray burst pulses are produced when highly-relativistic jets sweep across an observer's line-of-sight. We hypothesize that axisymmetric jet profiles, coupled with special relativistic effects, produce the time-reversed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-19 Jon Hakkila , Geoffrey N. Pendleton , Robert D. Preece , Timothy W. Giblin

We propose a model in which prompt gamma emission of gamma-ray bursts is the synchrotron radiation of electron-positron plasma in the ordered magnetic field in the direct vicinity of horizon of a young black hole formed in the core collapse…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrey Neronov
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