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most citedA very luminous magnetar-powered supernova associated with an ultra-long gamma-ray burst

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Integral Dependence over One-Sided Ideals, Part II: G-Left Ideals and the Köthe Problem

Masood Aryapoor

We study integral dependence over left ideals using G-left ideals, namely left ideals maximal with respect to the failure of integrality of a fixed element. We establish several ch…

astro-ph.HE2026

Revealing the Structure and Magnetization of GRB Jets with ALMA Polarization Observations

Tanmoy Laskar, Collin T. Christy, Noah Franz +9

We present a systematic study of the currently available ALMA millimeter polarimetric sample of gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglows. Our sample comprises 24 observations (20 new) of 1…

astro-ph.HE2026

GRB 260310A/SN 2026fgk: Photometric and Spectroscopic Evolution of a Nearby GRB-Supernova and an Exceptionally Bright Afterglow at z=0.153

Brendan O'Connor, Malte Busmann, Xander J. Hall +24

The association of broad-lined Type Ic supernovae with long-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) has been known for 28 years. However, only about seventy gamma-ray burst supernovae (GR…

astro-ph.HE2026

EP260321a/SN 2026gzf: The Faintest Shock Breakout Associated with a Broad-Lined Supernova

Brendan O'Connor, Xander J. Hall, Malte Busmann +33

The explosion of a star is first marked by the shock wave breaking out of the stellar surface, producing a burst of ultraviolet and X-ray radiation. These events are observationall…

astro-ph.HE2026

An extremely bright slow-rising afterglow from an off-axis jet in GRB 260310A

Yu-Han Yang, Roberto Ricci, Eleonora Troja +31

We present a multi-wavelength study of GRB 260310A, a nearby long-duration gamma-ray burst at associated with a broad-lined Type Ic supernova. Despite its modest pro…

astro-ph.HE2026★ 1 cited

Jet-Structure Imprint on the Curvature Tail of Gamma-Ray Burst Prompt Emission

Zhen-Yu Yan, Xiao-Hong Zhao, Hendrik J. van Eerten +7

Even though the prompt emission of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is highly beamed, high-latitude emission still produces a distinct light curve break after the intrinsic emission ceases…

astro-ph.HE2026

Moving-mesh simulations of spreading dynamics and local electron cooling in structured gamma-ray burst afterglow jets

Sayan Kundu, Hendrik van Eerten

We present the results for the dynamics and emission profiles of axi-symmetric numerical simulations of structured gamma-ray burst afterglow jets, computed using the relativistic m…

astro-ph.HE2025

The impact of kilonova seed photons on GRB VHE emission

John P. Hope, Hendrik J. van Eerten

Over the last several years, there have been a number of GRBs with very high energy (VHE) emission in excess of 100 GeV, and even above 1 TeV, detected. In several instances, synch…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 4 cited

TeV afterglow emission from a structured GRB jet using the kinetic approach

John P. Hope, Hendrik J. van Eerten, Sayan Kundu +1

Recent years have seen a growing sample of TeV emission detections in gamma-ray burst afterglows, as well as an increasing role for structured jets in afterglow modelling. Using a…

astro-ph.HE2024

The Gravitational Wave AfterglowPy Analysis (GWAPA) webtool

R. A. J. Eyles-Ferris, H. van Eerten, E. Troja +1

We present the first release of the Gravitational Wave AfterglowPy Analysis (GWAPA) webtool. GWAPA is designed to provide the community with an interactive tool for rapid analysis…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 6 cited

Modelling of Long-Term Afterglow Counterparts to Gravitational Wave Events: The Full View of GRB 170817A

Geoffrey Ryan, Hendrik van Eerten, Eleonora Troja +3

The arrival of gravitational wave astronomy and a growing number of time-domain focused observatories are set to lead to a increasing number of detections of short gamma-ray bursts…

astro-ph.HE2023

Scaling relations for gamma-ray burst afterglow light curves and centroid motion independent of jet structure and dynamics

Hendrik van Eerten, Geoffrey Ryan

Models for gamma-ray burst afterglow dynamics and synchrotron spectra are known to exhibit various scale invariances, owing to the scale-free nature of fluid dynamics and the power…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 12 cited

Potential biases and prospects for the Hubble constant estimation via electromagnetic and gravitational-wave joint analyses

Giulia Gianfagna, Luigi Piro, Francesco Pannarale +3

GW170817 is a binary neutron star merger that exhibited a gravitational wave (GW) and a gamma-ray burst, followed by an afterglow. In this work, we estimate the Hubble constant ($H…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 16 cited

The ultra-long GRB 220627A at z=3.08

S. de Wet, L. Izzo, P. J. Groot +19

GRB 220627A is a rare burst with two distinct gamma-ray emission episodes separated by almost 1000 s that triggered the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor twice. High-energy GeV emissio…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 10 cited

A structured jet explains the extreme GRB 221009A

B. O'Connor, E. Troja, G. Ryan +29

Long duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are powerful cosmic explosions, signaling the death of massive stars. Among them, GRB 221009A is by far the brightest burst ever observed. Due…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 10 cited

Joint analysis of gravitational-wave and electromagnetic data of mergers: breaking an afterglow model degeneracy in GW170817 and in future events

Giulia Gianfagna, Luigi Piro, Francesco Pannarale +4

On August 17, 2017, Advanced LIGO and Virgo observed GW170817, the first gravitational-wave (GW) signal from a binary neutron star merger. It was followed by a short-duration gamma…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 284 cited

A nearby long gamma-ray burst from a merger of compact objects

E. Troja, C. L. Fryer, B. O'Connor +21

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are flashes of high-energy radiation arising from energetic cosmic explosions. Bursts of long (>2 s) duration are produced by the core-collapse of massive s…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 9 cited

Probing particle acceleration at trans-relativistic shocks with off-axis gamma-ray burst afterglows

Kazuya Takahashi, Kunihito Ioka, Yutaka Ohira +1

Particle acceleration is expected to be different between relativistic and non-relativistic collisionless shocks. We show that electromagnetic counterparts to gravitational waves (…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 28 cited

Resonant Shattering Flares in Black Hole-Neutron Star and Binary Neutron Star Mergers

Duncan Neill, David Tsang, Hendrik van Eerten +2

Resonant Shattering flares (RSFs) are bursts of gamma-rays expected to be triggered by tidal resonance of a neutron star (NS) during binary inspiral. They are strongly dependent on…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 34 cited

Multi-messenger-Athena Synergy White Paper

L. Piro, M. Ahlers, A. Coleiro +30

In this paper we explore the scientific synergies between Athena and some of the key multi-messenger facilities that should be operative concurrently with Athena. These facilities…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 38 cited

Exploring the GRB population: Robust afterglow modelling

M. D. Aksulu, R. A. M. J. Wijers, H. J. van Eerten +1

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are ultra-relativistic collimated outflows, which emit synchrotron radiation throughout the entire electromagnetic spectrum when they interact with their en…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 2 cited

Accurate flux calibration of GW170817: is the X-ray counterpart on the rise?

E. Troja, B. O'Connor, G. Ryan +7

X-ray emission from the gravitational wave transient GW170817 is well described as non-thermal afterglow radiation produced by a structured relativistic jet viewed off-axis. We sho…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 18 cited

GAMMA: a new method for modeling relativistic hydrodynamics and non-thermal emission on a moving mesh

Eliot H. Ayache, Hendrik J. van Eerten, Rupert W. Eardley

In recent years, dynamical relativistic jet simulation techniques have progressed to a point where it is becoming possible to fully numerically resolve gamma-ray burst (GRB) blast-…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 30 cited

Gamma-ray burst afterglow blast waves

Hendrik van Eerten

The various stages of baryonic gamma-ray burst afterglow blast waves are reviewed. These are responsible for the afterglow emission from which much of our understanding of gamma-ra…