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Power density spectra (PDSs) of long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) provide useful information on GRBs, indicating their self-similar temporal structure. The best power-law PDSs are displayed by the longest bursts (T_90>100 s) in which the range…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. M. Beloborodov , B. E. Stern , R. Svensson

While it is generally agreed that the emitting regions in Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) move ultra relativistically towards the observer, different estimates of the initial Lorentz factors, $\Gamma_0$, lead to different, at times conflicting…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 Yuan-Chuan Zou , Tsvi Piran

Optically thick energy dominated plasma created in the source of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) expands radially with acceleration and forms a shell with constant width measured in the laboratory frame. When strong Lorentz factor gradients are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-09-17 R. Ruffini , I. A. Siutsou , G. V. Vereshchagin

GRB 060124 is the first event that both prompt and afterglow emission were observed simultaneously by the three \emph{Swift} instruments. Its main peak also triggered Konus-Wind and HETE-II. Therefore, investigation on both the temporal and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-30 Fu-Wen Zhang , Yi-Ping Qin

Gamma ray bursts (GRBs) are thought to originate from highly relativistic jets. The fireball model predicts internal shocks in the jets, causing magnetic field to be amplified and particles to be accelerated. We model the effects of an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Gareth C. Murphy , Mark E. Dieckmann , Luke O'C. Drury

We discuss several constraints on the properties of gamma-ray bursts (GRB) at cosmological distances. First we use the requirement that burst sources must be optically thin to pair production by photon-photon collisions in order to produce…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Eric Woods , Abraham Loeb

Intrinsic variability was searched for in arrival times of six gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) at high energies -- between 30 MeV and 2 GeV -- detected by the Fermi satellite's Large Area Telescope (LAT). The GRBs were selected from the Fermi LAT…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-31 E. Casey Aldrich , Robert J. Nemiroff

INTEGRAL has two sensitive gamma-ray instruments that have detected 46 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) up to July 2007. We present the spectral, spatial, and temporal properties of the bursts in the INTEGRAL GRB catalogue using data from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-30 S. Foley , S. McGlynn , L. Hanlon , S. McBreen , B. McBreen

In the popular internal shock model for the prompt emission of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), collisions between a series of relativistic shells generate lots of paired forward and reverse shocks. We show that the synchrotron emission produced by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Y. W. Yu , X. Y. Wang , Z. G. Dai

We here re-examine the validity of the constant-index power-law relation between the fireshell Lorentz gamma factor and its radial coordinate, usually adopted in the current Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) literature on the grounds of an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 Carlo Luciano Bianco , Remo Ruffini

The prompt emission of the long, smooth, and single-pulsed gamma-ray burst, GRB $\textit{141028A}$, is analyzed under the guise of an external shock model. First, we fit the $\gamma$-ray spectrum with a two-component photon model, namely…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-25 J. Michael Burgess , Damien Bégué , Felix Ryde , Nicola Omodei , Asaf Pe'er , J. L. Racusin , A. Cucchiara

The origin of the gamma-ray burst (GRB) prompt emission still defies explanation, in spite of recent progress made, for example, on the occasional presence of a thermal component in the spectrum along with the ubiquitous non-thermal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-23 S. Dichiara , C. Guidorzi , L. Amati , F. Frontera , R. Margutti

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

If $\gamma$-ray bursts are at cosmological distances, then not only their constituent pulses but also the intervals between pulses should be time-dilated. Unlike time-dilation measures of pulse emission, intervals would appear to require…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 J. P. Norris , J. T. Bonnell , R. J. Nemiroff , J. D. Scargle

BeppoSAX observations of the single pulse burst GRB960720 have allowed a detailed study of its X-ray properties: pulse width in different energy bands, spectral evolution from 2 to 700 keV, etc. We show that the early (0-5s) X-ray emission…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 F. Daigne , R. Mochkovitch

The Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) prompt emission is believed to be from highly relativistic electrons accelerated in relativistic shocks. From the GRB high-energy power-law spectral indices $\beta$ observed by the Burst and Transient Source…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. -F. Shen , P. Kumar , E. L. Robinson

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) have been identified as extragalactic sources which can make a probe of turbulence in the intergalactic medium (IGM) and their host galaxies. To account for the observed millisecond pulses caused by scatter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-14 Siyao Xu , Bing Zhang

The prompt emission mechanism of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is still unclear, and the time-resolved spectral analysis of GRBs is a powerful tool for studying their underlying physical processes. We performed a detailed time-resolved spectral…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-29 Wan-Kai Wang , Wei Xie , Zhi-Fu Gao , Shuo Xiao , Ai-Jun Dong , Bin Zhang , Qi-Jun Zhi

The afterglow emission from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is usually interpreted as synchrotron radiation from electrons accelerated at the GRB external shock, that propagates with relativistic velocities into the magnetized interstellar medium.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Lorenzo Sironi , Anatoly Spitkovsky , Jonathan Arons

We analyze BATSE 64-ms data for long gamma-ray bursts (T90 > 2.6 s), exploring the relationships between spectral lag, duration, and the number of distinct pulses per burst, Npulses. We measure durations using a brightness-independent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Jay P. Norris , Jeffrey D. Scargle , Jerry T. Bonnell