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 …

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 …

The cosmic-ray precursor of relativistic collisionless shocks: a missing link in gamma-ray burst afterglows

M Milosavljević, E Nakar - The Astrophysical Journal, 2006 - iopscience.iop.org
Collisionless shocks are commonly argued to be the sites of cosmic-ray (CR) acceleration.
We study the influence of CRs on weakly magnetized relativistic collisionless shocks and …

Magnetic fields and cosmic rays in GRBs: a self-similar collisionless foreshock

MV Medvedev, OV Zakutnyaya - The Astrophysical Journal, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
Cosmic rays accelerated by a shock form a streaming distribution of outgoing particles in the
foreshock region. If the ambient fields are negligible compared to the shock and cosmic ray …

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 …

Gamma rays from a reverse shock with turbulent magnetic fields in GRB 180720B

M Arimoto, K Asano, KS Kawabata, K Toma, R Gill… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most electromagnetically luminous cosmic explosions.
They are powered by collimated streams of plasma (jets) ejected by a newborn stellar-mass …

Synchrotron emission in small-scale magnetic fields as a possible explanation for prompt emission spectra of gamma-ray bursts

A Pe'er, B Zhang - The Astrophysical Journal, 2006 - iopscience.iop.org
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 …

On particle acceleration rate in gamma-ray burst afterglows

E Sagi, E Nakar - The Astrophysical Journal, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
It is well known that collisionless shocks are major sites of particle acceleration in the
universe, but the details of the acceleration process are still not well understood. The particle …

Constraining the magnetic field in GRB relativistic collisionless shocks using radio data

R Barniol Duran - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Using gamma-ray burst (GRB) radio afterglow observations, we calculate the fraction of
shocked plasma energy in the magnetic field in relativistic collisionless shocks (ϵ B). We …

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 …