The microphysics of collisionless shock waves

A Marcowith, A Bret, A Bykov… - Reports on Progress …, 2016‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Collisionless shocks, that is shocks mediated by electromagnetic processes, are customary
in space physics and in astrophysics. They are to be found in a great variety of objects and …

Theories of gamma-ray bursts

P Mészáros - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2002‏ - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract The gamma ray burst phenomenon is reviewed from a theoretical point of view,
with emphasis on the fireball shock scenario of the prompt emission and the longer …

The Swift gamma-ray burst mission

N Gehrels, G Chincarini, PE Giommi… - The Astrophysical …, 2004‏ - iopscience.iop.org
The Swift mission, scheduled for launch in 2004, is a multiwavelength observatory for
gamma-ray burst (GRB) astronomy. It is a first-of-its-kind autonomous rapid-slewing satellite …

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 …

Evidence for a canonical gamma-ray burst afterglow light curve in the Swift XRT data

JA Nousek, C Kouveliotou, D Grupe… - The Astrophysical …, 2006‏ - iopscience.iop.org
We present new observations of the early X-ray afterglows of the first 27 gamma-ray bursts
(GRBs) well observed by the Swift X-Ray Telescope (XRT). The early X-ray afterglows show …

The collimation-corrected gamma-ray burst energies correlate with the peak energy of their νFν spectrum

G Ghirlanda, G Ghisellini, D Lazzati - The Astrophysical Journal, 2004‏ - iopscience.iop.org
We consider all bursts with known redshift and νF ν peak energy, E. For a good fraction of
them an estimate of the jet opening angle is available from the achromatic break of their …

Properties of relativistic jets in gamma-ray burst afterglows

A Panaitescu, P Kumar - The Astrophysical Journal, 2002‏ - iopscience.iop.org
We extend our calculation of physical parameters of gamma-ray burst (GRB) jets by
modeling the broadband emission of the afterglows 970508, 980519, 991208, 000926 …

The afterglows of Swift-era gamma-ray bursts. I. Comparing pre-Swift and Swift-era long/soft (type II) GRB optical afterglows

DA Kann, S Klose, B Zhang, D Malesani… - The Astrophysical …, 2010‏ - iopscience.iop.org
We have gathered optical photometry data from the literature on a large sample of Swift-era
gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglows including GRBs up to 2009 September, for a total of 76 …

How bad or good are the external forward shock afterglow models of gamma-ray bursts?

XG Wang, B Zhang, EW Liang, H Gao… - The Astrophysical …, 2015‏ - iopscience.iop.org
The external forward shock models have been the standard paradigm to interpret the
broadband afterglow data of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). One prediction of the models is that …

Probing the cosmic reionization history and local environment of gamma-ray bursts through radio dispersion

S Inoue - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2004‏ - academic.oup.com
We discuss the effect of dispersion delay due to intervening ionized media in the radio
emission of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). For high-redshift GRBs (z≳ 3), the ionized …