The physics of gamma-ray bursts

T Piran - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2004 - APS
Gamma-ray bursts (GRB's), short and intense pulses of low-energy γ rays, have fascinated
astronomers and astrophysicists since their unexpected discovery in the late sixties. During …

Gamma-ray burst afterglows

JV Paradijs, C Kouveliotou… - Annual review of …, 2000 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract The discovery of counterparts in X-ray and optical to radio wavelengths has
revolutionized the study of γ-ray bursts, until recently the most enigmatic of astrophysical …

Beaming in gamma-ray bursts: evidence for a standard energy reservoir

DA Frail, SR Kulkarni, R Sari… - The Astrophysical …, 2001 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a comprehensive sample of all gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglows with known
distances, and we derive their conical opening angles based on observed broadband …

Experimental entanglement purification of arbitrary unknown states

JW Pan, S Gasparoni, R Ursin, G Weihs, A Zeilinger - Nature, 2003 - nature.com
Distribution of entangled states between distant locations is essential for quantum
communication,, over large distances. But owing to unavoidable decoherence in the …

Polarization of the prompt γ-ray emission from the γ-ray burst of 6 December 2002

W Coburn, SE Boggs - nature, 2003 - nature.com
Observations of the afterglows of γ-ray bursts (GRBs) have revealed that they lie at
cosmological distances, and so correspond to the release of an enormous amount of …

Detection of gamma-ray polarization in prompt emission of GRB 100826A

D Yonetoku, T Murakami, S Gunji… - The Astrophysical …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
We report the polarization measurement in prompt γ-ray emission of GRB 100826A with the
Gamma-Ray Burst Polarimeter on board the small solar-power-sail demonstrator IKAROS …

Theory of “jitter” radiation from small-scale random magnetic fields and prompt emission from gamma-ray burst shocks

MV Medvedev - The Astrophysical Journal, 2000 - iopscience.iop.org
We demonstrate that the radiation emitted by ultrarelativistic electrons in highly nonuniform,
small-scale magnetic fields is different from synchrotron radiation if the electron's transverse …

Physics of Gamma‐Ray Bursts Prompt Emission

A Pe'Er - Advances in Astronomy, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, our understanding of gamma‐ray bursts (GRB) prompt emission has been
revolutionized, due to a combination of new instruments, new analysis methods, and novel …

Constraints on the emission mechanisms of gamma-ray bursts

G Ghisellini, A Celotti, D Lazzati - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2000 - academic.oup.com
If the emission of gamma-ray bursts were as a result of the synchrotron process in the
standard internal shock scenario, then the typical observed spectrum should have a slope …

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 …