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Particles with energies below the mean energy $E_0$ in relativistic shocked plasmas should assume an equilibrium energy distribution. This leads to a synchrotron spectrum $F_\nu \propto \nu^{1/3}$ up to approximately the critical frequency…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-17 J. I. Katz

It is shown that differential Doppler shift of different patches of the blastwave front in the fireball model at varying angles to the line of sight could provide an intrinsic smoothing mechanism for the spectra of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Renyue Cen

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are intense pulses of high-energy emission associated with massive stars' death or compact objects' coalescence. Their multi-wavelength observations help verify the reliability of the standard fireball model. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-19 M. G. Dainotti , S. Bhardwaj , E. Bissaldi , N. Fraija , S. Sourav , A. Galvan-Gamez

Numerical models of collisionless shocks robustly predict an electron distribution comprised of both thermal and non-thermal electrons. Here, we explore in detail the effect of thermal electrons on the emergent synchrotron emission from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-22 Ben Margalit , Eliot Quataert

Solar flare hard X-ray spectra from RHESSI are normally interpreted in terms of purely collisional electron beam propagation, ignoring spatial evolution and collective effects. In this paper we present self-consistent numerical simulations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 I. G. Hannah , E. P. Kontar , O. K. Sirenko

Recent analyses of multiwavelength light curves of gamma-ray bursts afterglows point to values of the magnetic turbulence well below the canonical $\sim1\,$\% of equipartition, in agreement with theoretical expectations of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-30 M. Lemoine

The prompt emission spectrum of Gamma-ray bursts (GRB) is characterized by a smoothly joint broken power-law spectrum known as the Band function. The typical low-energy photon index is $\sim -1$, which poses challenge to the standard…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-07 Siyao Xu , Yuan-Pei Yang , Bing Zhang

The spectra obtained above 100 MeV by the EGRET experiment aboard the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory for a handful of gamma-ray bursts has given no indication of any spectral attenuation that might preclude detection of bursts at higher…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 Matthew G. Baring

Since the gravitational wave event GW170817 and gamma-ray burst GW170817A there have been numerous studies constraining the burst properties through analysis of the afterglow light curves. Most agree that the burst was viewed off-axis with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-29 Austin McDowell , Andrew MacFadyen

Synchrotron emission is believed to be a major radiation mechanism during gamma-ray bursts' (GRBs) prompt emission phase. A significant drawback of this assumption is that the theoretical predicted spectrum, calculated within the framework…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Asaf Pe'er , Bing Zhang

The connection between Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) and their afterglows is currently not well understood. Afterglow models of synchrotron emission generated by external shocks in the GRB fireball model predict emission detectable in the…

Aims. The aim of the study is to constrain the physics of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) by analysing the multi-wavelength afterglow data set of GRB 121024A that covers the full range from radio to X-rays. Methods. Using multi-epoch broad-band…

The average peak-aligned profile of all bursts detected by BATSE with sufficient data quality has a simple ``stretched'' exponential shape, F ~ exp[-(t/t_0)^{1/3}], where $t$ is the time measured from the time for the peak flux of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Boris Stern , Roland Svensson , Juri Poutanen

In models for gamma ray burst afterglows, it is normally assumed that the external shock strongly amplifies the magnetic field and that this field maintains a steady value throughout the shocked region. We discuss the effects of modifying…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Elena Rossi , Martin J. Rees

We find and study a variety of the spectral-temporal behavior during the decay phase of the light curve of long and bright pulse structures in gamma-ray bursts. It was earlier found that for about half of these decays, the instantaneous…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Felix Ryde , Roland Svensson

The emission mechanism during the prompt phase in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) can be investigated through correlations between spectral properties. Here, we revisit the correlation relating the instantaneous flux, $F$, and the photon index…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-16 Felix Ryde , Hoi-Fung Yu , Hüsne Dereli-Bégué , Christoffer Lundman , Asaf Pe'er , Liang Li

It was found by Amati et al. in 2002 that for a small sample of 9 gamma-ray bursts, more distant events appear to be systematically harder in the soft gamma-ray band. Here, we have collected a larger sample of 65 gamma-ray bursts, whose…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-18 J. J. Geng , Y. F. Huang

In a recent paper we have calculated the power density spectrum of Gamma-Ray Bursts arising from multiple shocks in a relativistic wind. The wind optical thickness is one of the factors to which the power spectrum is most sensitive,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Spada , A. Panaitescu , P. Meszaros

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are highly variable and exhibit strong spectral evolution. In particular, the emission properties vary from pulse to pulse in multipulse bursts. Here we present a time-resolved Bayesian spectral analysis of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-20 Liang Li , Felix Ryde , Asaf Pe'er , Hoi-Fung Yu , Zeynep Acuner

I present a computationally efficient way to account for synchrotron and its inverse Compton scattered emission along with the resulting radiative losses, in a self-consistent way, for a relativistic distribution of electrons continuously…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Papathanassiou