Gamma-ray Bursts: 50 Years and Counting!

AA Vigliano, F Longo - Universe, 2024 - mdpi.com
Gamma-ray bursts were discovered by the Vela satellites in the late 1960s, but they were
announced for the first time exactly 50 years ago, in 1973. The history of our understanding …

External inverse-Compton and proton synchrotron emission from the reverse shock as the origin of VHE gamma rays from the hyper-bright GRB 221009A

BT Zhang, K Murase, K Ioka, D Song… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The detection of the hyper-bright gamma-ray burst (GRB) 221009A enables us to explore
the nature of the GRB emission and the origin of very high-energy gamma rays. We analyze …

Swift/UVOT: 18 Years of Long GRB Discoveries and Advances

S Oates - Universe, 2023 - mdpi.com
The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory (Swift) has been in operation for 18 years. The Ultra-
Violet/Optical Telescope (UVOT) onboard Swift was designed to capture the earliest …

Ultra high energy cosmic rays from tidal disruption events

T Piran, P Beniamini - Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The tidal disruption event AT2018hyz, was a regular optically detected one with no special
prompt features. However, almost three years after the disruption it suddenly displayed a fast …

Search for 10–1000 GeV Neutrinos from Gamma-Ray Bursts with IceCube

R Abbasi, M Ackermann, J Adams… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the results of a search for 10–1000 GeV neutrinos from 2268 gamma-ray bursts
(GRBs) over 8 yr of IceCube-DeepCore data. This work probes burst physics below the …

The BOAT GRB 221009A: A Poynting-flux-dominated narrow jet surrounded by a matter-dominated structured jet wing

B Zhang, XY Wang, JH Zheng - Journal of High Energy Astrophysics, 2024 - Elsevier
We argue that the broad-band observations of the brightest-of-all-time (BOAT) GRB
221009A reveal a physical picture involving two jet components: a narrow (∼ 0.6 degree …

Invisible neutrino decays as origin of TeV gamma rays from GRB221009A

J Huang, Y Wang, B Yu, S Zhou - Journal of Cosmology and …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Recently, the LHAASO collaboration has observed the gamma rays of energies up to ten
TeV from the gamma-ray burst GRB221009A, which has stimulated the community of …

[HTML][HTML] The origin of very-high-energy gamma-rays from GRB 221009A: implications for reverse shock proton synchrotron emission

BT Zhang, K Murase, K Ioka, B Zhang - Journal of High Energy …, 2025 - Elsevier
Recently, GRB 221009A, known as the brightest of all time (BOAT) GRB, has been observed
across an astounding range of∼ 18 orders of magnitude in energy, spanning from radio to …

Kaniadakis entropy-based characterization of IceCube PeV neutrino signals

M Blasone, G Lambiase, GG Luciano - Physics of the Dark Universe, 2023 - Elsevier
Kaniadakis κ-thermostatistics is by now recognized as an effective paradigm to describe
relativistic complex systems obeying power-law tailed distributions, as opposed to the …

High-energy Neutrinos from Late-time Jets of Gamma-Ray Bursts Seeded with Cocoon Photons

R Matsui, SS Kimura, H Hamidani - The Astrophysical Journal, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
In gamma-ray bursts (GRBs),∼ 100–1000 s after the prompt emission, afterglow
observations have consistently shown X-ray excesses detected in the form of flares (in long …