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 …

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 Magnetization Degree of the Outflow Powering the Highly Polarized Reverse-shock Emission of GRB 120308A

S Zhang, ZP Jin, DM Wei - The Astrophysical Journal, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT GRB 120308A, a long duration γ-ray burst (GRB) detected by Swift, was
distinguished by a highly polarized early optical afterglow emission that strongly suggests …

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 …

ALMA detection of a linearly polarized reverse shock in GRB 190114C

T Laskar, KD Alexander, R Gill, J Granot… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract We present Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array 97.5 GHz total intensity
and linear polarization observations of the mm-band afterglow of GRB 190114C spanning …

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 …

Precise measurements of self-absorbed rising reverse shock emission from gamma-ray burst 221009A

JS Bright, L Rhodes, W Farah, R Fender… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The deaths of massive stars are sometimes accompanied by the launch of highly relativistic
and collimated jets. If the jet is pointed towards Earth, we observe a 'prompt'gamma-ray burst …

Generation of magnetic fields in the relativistic shock of gamma-ray burst sources

MV Medvedev, A Loeb - The Astrophysical Journal, 1999 - iopscience.iop.org
We show that the relativistic two-stream instability can naturally generate strong magnetic
fields with 10-5–10-1 of the equipartition energy density, in the collisionless shocks of …

A reverse shock in GRB 130427A

T Laskar, E Berger, BA Zauderer… - The Astrophysical …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
We present extensive radio and millimeter observations of the unusually bright GRB
130427A at z= 0.340, spanning 0.67–12 days after the burst. We combine these data with …

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 …