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most citedHypercritical Accretion, Induced Gravitational Collapse, and Binary-Driven Hypernovae

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astro-ph.HE2026

GRB 220101A: a most energetic erg long GRB triggered by two supernovae 3.5 seconds apart

R. Ruffini, Y. Aimuratov, L. M. Becerra +10

GRB 220101A is a long GRB, with a total energy exceeding erg with a redshift and one of the largest ever high-quality multi-wavelength observational coverage,…

astro-ph.HE2026

The afterglow of gamma-ray burst - supernova connections

Marco Muccino, Rahim Moradi, Yu Wang

The X-ray afterglow of several long gamma-ray bursts (LGRBs) associated with broad line type Ib/c supernovae (SNe) exhibits a standard non-thermal afterglow, commonly attributed to…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 6 cited

LVK S241125n: Massive Binary Black Hole Merger Produces Gamma Ray Burst in Active Galactic Nucleus Disk

Shu-Rui Zhang, Yu Wang, Ye-Fei Yuan +6

Recently, the gravitational-wave (GW) event S241125n, detected by LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA (LVK), has been reported to coincide with a candidate detected by Swift-BAT/GUANO and an X-ray ca…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 10 cited

GRB 171205A: Hypernova and Newborn Neutron Star

Yu Wang, L. M. Becerra, C. L. Fryer +2

GRB 171205A is a low-luminosity, long-duration gamma-ray burst (GRB) associated with SN 2017iuk, a broad-line type Ic supernova (SN). It is consistent with being formed in the core…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 12 cited

GRB 190829A -- A Showcase of Binary Late Evolution

Yu Wang, J. A. Rueda, R. Ruffini +7

GRB 190829A is the fourth closest gamma-ray burst (GRB) to date (). Owing to its wide range of radio, optical, X-ray, and the very-high-energy (VHE) observations by H.E.S…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 8 cited

A Brief Review of Binary Driven Hypernova

Jorge A. Rueda, Remo Ruffini, Rahim Moradi +1

Binary driven hypernova (BdHN) models long gamma-ray burst (GRBs) as occurring in the binary systems involving a carbon-oxygen core (CO) and a companion neutron star (…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 15 cited

Dissecting the Energy Budget of a Gamma-Ray Burst Fireball

Bing Zhang, Yu Wang, Liang Li

The jet composition and radiative efficiency of GRBs are poorly constrained from the data. If the jet composition is matter-dominated (i.e. a fireball), the GRB prompt emission spe…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 33 cited

The newborn black hole in GRB 191014C proves that it is alive

R. Moradi, J. A. Rueda, R. Ruffini +1

A multi-decade theoretical effort has been devoted to finding an efficient mechanism to use the rotational and electrodynamical extractable energy of a Kerr-Newman black hole (BH),…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 33 cited

Magnetic Fields and Afterglows of BdHNe: Inferences from GRB 130427A, GRB 160509A, GRB 160625B, GRB 180728A and GRB 190114C

Jorge A. Rueda, R. Ruffini, M. Karlica +2

GRB 190114C is the first binary-driven hypernova (BdHN) fully observed from the initial supernova appearance to the final emergence of the optical SN signal. It offers an unprecede…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 6 cited

GRB 190114C: An Upgraded Legend

Yu Wang, Liang Li, Rahim Moradi +1

Gamma-ray burst (GRB) 190114C first resembles the legendary GRB 130427A: Both are strong sources of GeV emission, exhibiting consistent GeV spectral evolution, and almost identical…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 37 cited

"Double-tracking" Characteristic of the Spectral Evolution of GRB 131231A: Synchrotron Origin?

Liang Li, Jin-Jun Geng, Yan-Zhi Meng +6

The characteristics of the spectral evolution of the prompt emission of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), which are closely related to the radiation mechanism (synchrotron or photosphere),…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 47 cited

On the GeV emission of the type I BdHN GRB 130427A

R. Ruffini, R. Moradi, J. A. Rueda +9

We propose that the "inner engine" of a type I binary-driven hypernova (BdHN) is composed of a Kerr black hole (BH) in a non-stationary state, embedded in a uniform magnetic field…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 36 cited

Two Predictions of supernova: GRB 130427A / SN 2013cq and GRB 180728A / SN 2018fip

Yu Wang, Jorge A. Rueda, Remo Ruffini +4

On 2018 July 28, GRB 180728A triggered \textit{Swift} satellites and, soon after the determination of the redshift, we identified this source as a type II binary-driven hypernova (…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 19 cited

Electromagnetic emission of white dwarf binary mergers

J. A. Rueda, R. Ruffini, Y. Wang +6

It has been recently proposed that the ejected matter from white dwarf (WD) binary mergers can produce transient, optical and infrared emission similar to the "kilonovae" of neutro…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 2 cited

On the role of the Kerr-Newman black hole in the GeV emission of long gamma-ray bursts

R. Ruffini, R. Moradi, J. A. Rueda +13

X-ray Flashes (XRFs), binary-driven hypernovae (BdHNe) are long GRB subclasses with progenitor a CO, undergoing a supernova (SN) explosion and hypercritically accretin…

astro-ph.HE2018

On the Short GRB GeV emission from a Kerr Black hole

R. Ruffini, M. Muccino, Y. Aimuratov +10

It has recently become clear that in both short and long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) it coexists a sequence of different events, each characterized by specific physical processes and c…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 29 cited

On a GRB afterglow model consistent with hypernovae observations

R. Ruffini, M. Karlica, N. Sahakyan +5

We describe the afterglows of the long gamma-ray-burst (GRB) 130427A within the context of a binary-driven hypernova (BdHN). The afterglows originate from the interaction between a…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 27 cited

A Large Catalogue of Multi-wavelength GRB Afterglows I: Color Evolution And Its Physical Implication

Liang Li, Yu Wang, Lang Shao +5

The spectrum of gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglows can be studied with color indices. Here we present a large comprehensive catalogue of 70 GRBs with multi-wavelength optical transie…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 12 cited

GRB 081024B and GRB 140402A: two additional short GRBs from binary neutron star mergers

Y. Aimuratov, R. Ruffini, M. Muccino +6

Theoretical and observational evidences have been recently gained for a two-fold classification of short bursts: 1) short gamma-ray flashes (S-GRFs), with isotropic energy $E_{iso}…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 20 cited

On the rate and on the gravitational wave emission of short and long GRBs

R. Ruffini, J. Rodriguez, M. Muccino +13

On the ground of the large number of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) detected with cosmological redshift, we classified GRBs in seven subclasses, all with binary progenitors originating gr…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 76 cited

On the classification of GRBs and their occurrence rates

R. Ruffini, J. A. Rueda, M. Muccino +8

There is mounting evidence for the binary nature of the progenitors of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). For a long GRB, the induced gravitational collapse (IGC) paradigm proposes as progen…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 45 cited

A Correlated Study of Optical and X-ray Afterglows of GRBs

Liang Li, Xue-Feng Wu, Yong-Feng Huang +10

We study an extensive sample of 87 GRBs for which there are well sampled and simultaneous optical and X-ray light-curves. We extract the cleanest possible signal of the afterglow c…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 28 cited

GRB 140619B: a short GRB from a binary neutron star merger leading to black hole formation

R. Ruffini, M. Muccino, M. Kovacevic +8

We show the existence of two families of short GRBs, both originating from the merger of binary neutron stars (NSs): family-1 with erg, leading to a massive NS as…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 98 cited

Hypercritical Accretion, Induced Gravitational Collapse, and Binary-Driven Hypernovae

Chris L. Fryer, Jorge A. Rueda, Remo Ruffini

The induced gravitational collapse (IGC) paradigm has been successfully applied to the explanation of the concomitance of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) with supernovae (SNe) Ic. The prog…