The Implications of TeV-detected GRB Afterglows for Acceleration at Relativistic Shocks

ZQ Huang, JG Kirk, G Giacinti… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Motivated by the detection of very-high-energy (VHE) gamma rays deep in the afterglow
emission of a gamma-ray burst (GRB), we revisit predictions of the maximum energy to …

Implications of electron acceleration for high-energy radiation from gamma-ray bursts

RB Duran, P Kumar - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
In recent work, we suggested that photons of energy> 100 MeV detected from gamma-ray
bursts (GRBs) by the Fermi satellite are produced via synchrotron emission in the external …

The upstream magnetic field of collisionless GRB shocks

Z Li, E Waxman - The Astrophysical Journal, 2006 - iopscience.iop.org
Gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglow emission is believed to be produced by synchrotron
emission of electrons accelerated to high energy by a relativistic collisionless shock …

External inverse-compton emission from low-luminosity gamma-ray bursts: Application to GRB 190829A

BT Zhang, K Murase, P Veres… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The detection of TeV gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) brought new opportunities for studying the
physics of particle acceleration at relativistic shocks. The High Energy Stereoscopic System …

On the magnetization of gamma-ray burst blast waves

M Lemoine, Z Li, XY Wang - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
The origin of magnetic fields that permeate the blast waves of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is a
long-standing problem. The present paper argues that in four GRBs revealing extended …

The upstream magnetic field of collisionless GRB shocks: constraint by Fermi-LAT observations

Z Li, XH Zhao - Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
Long-lived> 100 MeV emission has been a common feature of most Fermi-LAT detected
gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), eg, detected up to∼ 10 3 s in long GRBs 080916C and 090902B …

Evidence for mild deviation from power-law distribution of electrons in relativistic shocks: GRB 090902B

R Barniol Duran, P Kumar - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Many previous studies have determined that the long lasting emission at X-ray, optical and
radio wavelengths from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), called the afterglow, is likely produced by …

The Low-Energy Spectral Index of Gamma-ray Burst Prompt Emission from Internal Shocks

K Wang, ZG Dai - Galaxies, 2021 - mdpi.com
The prompt emission of most gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) typically exhibits a non-thermal
Band component. The synchrotron radiation in the popular internal shock model is generally …

The maximum energy of accelerated particles in relativistic collisionless shocks

L Sironi, A Spitkovsky, J Arons - The Astrophysical Journal, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
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 …

Probing particle acceleration at trans-relativistic shocks with off-axis gamma-ray burst afterglows

K Takahashi, K Ioka, Y Ohira… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Particle acceleration is expected to be different between relativistic and non-relativistic
collisionless shocks. We show that electromagnetic counterparts to gravitational waves …