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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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ON THE THEORY OF GAMMA RAY BURSTS AND HYPERNOVAE: THE BLACK HOLE SOFT X-RAY TRANSIENT SOURCES

International Journal of Modern Physics A, 2003
We show that a common evolutionary history can produce the black hole binaries in the Galaxy in which the black holes have masses of ~ 5 - 10M⊙. In the black hole binaries with low-mass, ≲ 2.5M⊙ ZAMS (zero age main sequence) companions, the latter remain in main sequence during the active stage of soft X-ray transients (SXT's), most of them being of K
Lee, Chang-Hwan, Brown, Gerald E.
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Fermi-LAT RESULTS ON GALACTIC PLANE γ-RAY TRANSIENT SOURCES [PDF]

The Twelfth Marcel Grossmann Meeting, 2012
The Large Area Telescope on the Fermi gamma-ray Space Telescope provides unprecedented sensitivity for all-sky monitoring of gamma-ray activity. It has detected a few Galactic sources, including 2 gamma-ray binaries and a microquasar. In addition, it is an adequate telescope to detect other transient sources.
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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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Effects of dead time losses on terrestrial gamma ray flash measurements with the Burst and Transient Source Experiment [PDF]

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 2010
Measurements from the Burst and Transient Source Experiment (BATSE) instrument on the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO) are the only ones where characteristics of single terrestrial gamma ray flashes (TGFs) have been obtained thus far. However, it has been reported that the measurements suffer from significant dead time losses which complicates the ...
Gjesteland, Thomas, Østgaard, Nikolai, Connell, P. H., Stadsnes, J., Fishman, G. J.   +4 more
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Is Gamma-Ray Burst 221009A Really a Once-in-10,000 yr Event?

The Astrophysical Journal
Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) brighter than the GRB 221009A, the brightest yet observed, have previously been estimated to occur at a rate of one per 10,000 yr, based on the extrapolation of the distribution of fluences of the long-GRB population. We show that
Justin D. Finke, Soebur Razzaque
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Instrument for observing transient cosmic gamma-ray sources for the ISEE-C Heliocentric spacecraft [PDF]

, 1977
Satellite instrumentation that would serve as one element of a three-satellite network to provide precise directional information for the recently discovered cosmic gamma-ray bursts is described. The proposed network would be capable of determining source locations with uncertainties of less than one arc minute, sufficient for a meaningful optical and ...
Evans, W.D., Aiello, W.P., Klebesadel, R.W.   +2 more
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GRB 211024B: An Ultra-long GRB Powered by Magnetar

The Astrophysical Journal
Ultra-long gamma-ray bursts are characterized by exceptionally long-duration central engine activities, with characteristic timescales exceeding 1000 s. We present ground-based optical afterglow observations of the ultra-long gamma-ray burst GRB 211024B,
Shao-Yu Fu, Dong Xu, Wei-Hua Lei, Antonio de Ugarte Postigo, Daniele B. Malesani, David Alexander Kann, Páll Jakobsson, Johan P. U. Fynbo, Elisabetta Maiorano, Andrea Rossi, Diego Paris, Xing Liu, Shuai-Qing Jiang, Tian-Hua Lu, Jie An, Zi-Pei Zhu, Xing Gao, Jian-Yan Wei   +17 more
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Gamma-Ray Bursts Observed by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite: Prompt Optical Counterparts and Afterglows of Swift-XRT-localized Gamma-Ray Bursts

The Astrophysical Journal
Very few detections have been made of optical flashes contemporaneous with prompt high-energy emission from a gamma-ray burst (GRB). In this work, we present and analyze light curves of GRB-associated optical flashes and afterglows from the Transiting ...
Rahul Jayaraman, Michael Fausnaugh, George R. Ricker, Roland Vanderspek, Geoffrey Mo   +4 more
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