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On the Properties of Inverse Compton Spectra Generated by Upscattering a Power-law Distribution of Target Photons

The Astrophysical Journal, 2023
Relativistic electrons are an essential component in many astrophysical sources, and their radiation may dominate the high-energy bands. Inverse Compton (IC) emission is the radiation mechanism that plays the most important role in these bands. The basic
Dmitry Khangulyan, Felix Aharonian, Andrew M. Taylor   +2 more
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Evidence for Two Distinct Populations of Kilonova-associated Gamma-Ray Bursts

The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2023
Identification of gamma-ray burst (GRB) progenitors based on the duration of their prompt emission ( T _90 ) has faced several roadblocks recently. Long-duration GRBs (with T _90 > 2 s) have traditionally been thought to be originating from the collapse ...
Dimple, K. Misra, K. G. Arun
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GRB 221009A: The BOAT

The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2023
GRB 221009A has been referred to as the brightest of all time (BOAT). We investigate the veracity of this statement by comparing it with a half century of prompt gamma-ray burst observations.
Eric Burns, Dmitry Svinkin, Edward Fenimore, D. Alexander Kann, José Feliciano Agüí Fernández, Dmitry Frederiks, Rachel Hamburg, Stephen Lesage, Yuri Temiraev, Anastasia Tsvetkova, Elisabetta Bissaldi, Michael S. Briggs, Sarah Dalessi, Rachel Dunwoody, Cori Fletcher, Adam Goldstein, C. Michelle Hui, Boyan A. Hristov, Daniel Kocevski, Alexandra L. Lysenko, Bagrat Mailyan, Joseph Mangan, Sheila McBreen, Judith Racusin, Anna Ridnaia, Oliver J. Roberts, Mikhail Ulanov, Peter Veres, Colleen A. Wilson-Hodge, Joshua Wood   +29 more
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The Jet Opening Angle and Event Rate Distributions of Short Gamma-Ray Bursts from Late-time X-Ray Afterglows

The Astrophysical Journal, 2023
We present a comprehensive study of 29 short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs) observed ≈0.8−60 days postburst using Chandra and XMM-Newton. We provide the inferred distributions of the SGRB jet opening angles and true event rates to compare against neutron star ...
A. Rouco Escorial, W. Fong, E. Berger, T. Laskar, R. Margutti, G. Schroeder, J. C. Rastinejad, D. Cornish, S. Popp, M. Lally, A. E. Nugent, K. Paterson, B. D. Metzger, R. Chornock, K. Alexander, Y. Cendes, T. Eftekhari   +16 more
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Hybrid Emission Modeling of GRB 221009A: Shedding Light on TeV Emission Origins in Long GRBs

The Astrophysical Journal, 2023
Observations of long-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) with TeV emission during their afterglow have been on the rise. Recently, GRB 221009A, the most energetic GRB ever observed, was detected by the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory experiment ...
Hebzibha Isravel, Damien Bégué, Asaf Pe’er   +2 more
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The Radio Flare and Multiwavelength Afterglow of the Short GRB 231117A: Energy Injection from a Violent Shell Collision

The Astrophysical Journal
We present the early radio detection and multiwavelength modeling of the short gamma-ray burst (GRB) 231117A at redshift z = 0.257. The Australia Telescope Compact Array automatically triggered a 9 hr observation of GRB 231117A at 5.5 and 9 GHz following
G. E. Anderson, G. P. Lamb, B. P. Gompertz, L. Rhodes, A. Martin-Carrillo, A. J. van der Horst, A. Rowlinson, M. E. Bell, T.-W. Chen, H. M. Fausey, M. Ferro, P. J. Hancock, S. R. Oates, S. Schulze, R. L. C. Starling, S. Yang, K. Ackley, J. P. Anderson, A. Andersson, J. F. Agüí Fernández, R. Brivio, E. Burns, K. C. Chambers, T. de Boer, V. D’Elia, M. De Pasquale, A. de Ugarte Postigo, Dimple, R. Fender, M. D. Fulton, H. Gao, J. H. Gillanders, D. A. Green, M. Gromadzki, A. Gulati, D. H. Hartmann, M. E. Huber, N. J. Klingler, N. P. M. Kuin, J. K. Leung, A. J. Levan, C.-C. Lin, E. Magnier, D. B. Malesani, P. Minguez, K. P. Mooley, T. Mukherjee, M. Nicholl, P. T. O’Brien, G. Pugliese, A. Rossi, S. D. Ryder, B. Sbarufatti, B. Schneider, F. Schüssler, S. J. Smartt, K. W. Smith, S. Srivastav, D. Steeghs, N. R. Tanvir, C. C. Thoene, S. D. Vergani, R. J. Wainscoat, Z.-N. Wang, R. A. M. J. Wijers, D. Williams-Baldwin, I. Worssam, T. Zafar   +67 more
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The Case of the Missing Very High-energy Gamma-Ray Bursts: A Retrospective Study of Swift Gamma-Ray Bursts with Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes

The Astrophysical Journal
Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are particle acceleration sites that can emit photons in the very high-energy (VHE) domain through nonthermal processes. From 2004 until 2018, the current generation of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) did not ...
H. Ashkar, A. Sangaré, S. Fegan, J. Damascene Mbarubucyeye, E. Ruiz-Velasco, S. J. Zhu   +5 more
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Naked Forward Shock Seen in the TeV Afterglow Data of GRB 221009A

The Astrophysical Journal
We explore the implications of the light curve of the early TeV gamma-ray afterglow of GRB 221009A reported by the LHAASO Collaboration. We show that the reported offset of the reference time, T _* , allows the determination of the activation time of the
Dmitry Khangulyan, Felix Aharonian, Andrew M. Taylor   +2 more
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Evidence of Minijet Emission in a Large Emission Zone from a Magnetically Dominated Gamma-Ray Burst Jet

The Astrophysical Journal
The second brightest gamma-ray burst (GRB) in history, GRB 230307A, provides an ideal laboratory to study the mechanism of GRB prompt emission thanks to its extraordinarily high photon statistics and its single-episode activity.
S.-X. Yi, C.-W. Wang, X. Shao, R. Moradi, H. Gao, B. Zhang, S.-L. Xiong, S.-N. Zhang, W.-J. Tan, J.-C. Liu, W.-C. Xue, Y.-Q. Zhang, C. Zheng, Y. Wang, P. Zhang, Z.-H. An, C. Cai, P.-Y. Feng, K. Gong, D.-Y. Guo, Y. Huang, B. Li, X.-B. Li, X.-Q. Li, X.-J. Liu, Y.-Q. Liu, X. Ma, W.-X. Peng, R. Qiao, L.-M. Song, J. Wang, P. Wang, Y. Wang, X.-Y. Wen, S. Xiao, Y.-B. Xu, S. Yang, Q.-B. Yi, D.-L. Zhang, F. Zhang, H.-M. Zhang, J.-P. Zhang, Z. Zhang, X.-Y. Zhao, Y. Zhao, S.-J. Zheng   +45 more
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The Landscape of Collapsar Outflows: Structure, Signatures, and Origins of Einstein Probe Relativistic Supernova Transients

The Astrophysical Journal Letters
The Einstein Probe is revolutionizing time-domain astrophysics through the discovery of new classes of X-ray transients associated with broad-line Type Ic supernovae.
Ore Gottlieb
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