The physics of gamma-ray bursts & relativistic jets

P Kumar, B Zhang - Physics Reports, 2015 - Elsevier
We provide a comprehensive review of major developments in our understanding of gamma-
ray bursts, with particular focus on the discoveries made within the last fifteen years when …

GRB polarization: a unique probe of GRB physics

R Gill, M Kole, J Granot - Galaxies, 2021 - mdpi.com
Over half a century from the discovery of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), the dominant radiation
mechanism responsible for their bright and highly variable prompt emission remains poorly …

The unpolarized macronova associated with the gravitational wave event GW 170817

S Covino, K Wiersema, YZ Fan, K Toma, AB Higgins… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
The merger of two dense stellar remnants including at least one neutron star is predicted to
produce gravitational waves (GWs) and short-duration gamma ray bursts,. In the process …

A comprehensive radio view of the extremely bright gamma-ray burst 130427A

AJ Van der Horst, Z Paragi, AG De Bruyn… - Monthly Notices of …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT GRB 130427A was extremely bright as a result of occurring at low redshift whilst
the energetics were more typical of high-redshift gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). We collected …

The warm, the excited, and the molecular gas: GRB 121024A shining through its star-forming galaxy

M Friis, A De Cia, T Krühler, JPU Fynbo… - Monthly Notices of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
We present the first reported case of the simultaneous metallicity determination of a gamma-
ray burst (GRB) host galaxy, from both afterglow absorption lines as well as strong emission …

Spatial growth of current-driven instability in relativistic rotating jets and the search for magnetic reconnection

CB Singh, Y Mizuno, EMG Dal Pino - The Astrophysical Journal, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Using the three-dimensional relativistic magnetohydrodynamic code RAISHIN, we
investigated the influence of the radial density profile on the spatial development of the …

Varying linear polarisation in the dust-free gamma-ray burst 210610B

JFA Fernández, A de Ugarte Postigo… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
Context. Long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are produced by the collapse of some very
massive stars, that emit ultra-relativistic jets. When the jets collide with the interstellar …

Generation of optical vortices by nonlinear inverse Thomson scattering at arbitrary angle interactions

Y Taira, M Katoh - The Astrophysical Journal, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We theoretically verify that optical vortices carrying orbital angular momentum are generated
in various astrophysical situations via nonlinear inverse Thomson scattering. Arbitrary angle …

Hard synchrotron spectra from magnetically dominated plasma turbulence

L Comisso, E Sobacchi, L Sironi - The Astrophysical Journal …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Synchrotron emission from astrophysical nonthermal sources usually assumes that the
emitting particles are isotropic. By means of large-scale two-and three-dimensional particle …

Photon-axion conversion, magnetic field configuration, and polarization of photons

E Masaki, A Aoki, J Soda - Physical Review D, 2017 - APS
We study the evolution of photon polarization during the photon-axion conversion process
with focusing on the magnetic field configuration dependence. Most previous studies have …