Gamma-ray bursts – a puzzle being resolved ☆
Tsvi Piran,Tsvi Piran +1 more
TLDR
The recent discovery of GRB afterglow has demonstrated that we are on the right track towards the resolution of this long standing puzzle as discussed by the authors, and the current understanding implies that GRBs signal the birth of stellar mass black holes.About:
This article is published in Physics Reports.The article was published on 2000-08-01 and is currently open access. It has received 207 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Gamma-ray burst & Gamma-ray burst progenitors.read more
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On the lateral expansion of gamma-ray burst jets
TL;DR: In this paper, a new analytic model based on a new physically derived recipe for the lateral expansion is proposed, and the model fits much better the results of numerical simulations, mainly because it remains valid also in the mildly relativistic, quasi-spherical regime.
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Collective processes in relativistic plasma and their implications for gamma-ray burst afterglows
Amir Sagiv,Eli Waxman +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the effects of collective plasma processes on synchrotron emission from highly relativistic electrons were investigated and it was shown that strong effects are also possible in the absence of a nonrelativistic plasma component, due to the relativists electrons (and protons) themselves.
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Implications of the -ray polarization of GRB 021206
Ehud Nakar,Tsvi Piran,Eli Waxman +2 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compare two possible scenarios for the production of a high level of polarization within the prompt emission of a GRB: synchrotron emission from a relativistic jet with a uniform (in space and time) magnetic field and a random magnetic field in the plane of the shock.
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Relativistic Jet Dynamics and Calorimetry of Gamma-Ray Bursts
TL;DR: In this article, the relativistic sideways expansion becomes significant beyond the radius r θ at which the expansion Lorentz factor drops to θ −1 0.2, propagating into a medium of uniform density.
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High-Mach number collisionless shock and photo-ionized non-LTE plasma for laboratory astrophysics with intense lasers
Hideaki Takabe,Tsunehiko N. Kato,Youichi Sakawa,Yasuhiro Kuramitsu,Taichi Morita,Toshihiko Kadono,Keisuke Shigemori,Kazuto Otani,Hideo Nagatomo,Takayoshi Norimatsu,S. Dono,Takuma Endo,Kohei Miyanishi,Tomoaki Kimura,A. Shiroshita,Norimasa Ozaki,Ryosuke Kodama,Shinsuke Fujioka,Hiroaki Nishimura,D. Salzman,Berenice Loupias,Christopher D. Gregory,M. Koenig,J. N. Waugh,Nigel Woolsey,Daiji Kato,Yi Li,Quan-Li Dong,Shoujun Wang,Yi Zhang,J. Zhao,F. L. Wang,Huigang Wei,Jianrong Shi,Gang Zhao,Jiyan Zhang,Tian-Shu Wen,Wenhai Zhang,Hu Xin,S. Y. Liu,Yongkun Ding,Zhang Lihua,Yong-Jian Tang,Baohan Zhang,Zhijian Zheng,Zheng-Ming Sheng,Jie Zhang +46 more
TL;DR: In this article, a collisionless counter-streaming plasma with intense laser ablation based on the scaling law to laser plasma with the particle-in-cell simulation resulting in Weibel-mediated shock formation was made.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied the time-averaged gamma-ray burst spectra accumulated by the spectroscopy detectors of the Burst and Transient Source Experiment (BTSE).
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Nucleosynthesis, neutrino bursts and gamma-rays from coalescing neutron stars
David Eichler,David Eichler,Mario Livio,Tsvi Piran,Tsvi Piran,David N. Schramm,David N. Schramm +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, it was pointed out that neutron-star collisions should synthesize neutron-rich heavy elements, thought to be formed by rapid neutron capture (the r-process), and these collisions should produce neutrino bursts and resultant bursts of gamma rays; the latter should comprise a subclass of observable gamma-ray bursts.
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