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External Shocks, UHECRs, and the Early Afterglow of GRBs
Charles D. Dermer
Highly variable gamma-ray pulses and X-ray flares in GRB light curves can result from external shocks rather than central engine activity under the assumption that the GRB blast-wa…
Best-Bet Astrophysical Neutrino Sources
Charles D. Dermer
Likely astrophysical sources of detectable high-energy (>> TeV) neutrinos are considered. Based on gamma-ray emission properties, the most probable sources of neutrinos are argued…
High-Energy Cosmology: gamma rays and neutrinos from beyond the galaxy
Charles D. Dermer
Our knowledge of the high-energy universe is undergoing a period of rapid change as new astronomical detectors of high-energy radiation start to operate at their design sensitiviti…
On the Redshift Distribution of Gamma Ray Bursts in the Swift Era
Truong Le, Charles D. Dermer
A simple physical model for long-duration gamma ray bursts (GRBs) is used to fit the redshift (z) and the jet opening-angle distributions measured with earlier GRB missions and wit…
The Advanced Compton Telescope Mission
Steven E. Boggs, James Kurfess, James Ryan +30
The Advanced Compton Telescope (ACT), the next major step in gamma-ray astronomy, will probe the fires where chemical elements are formed by enabling high-resolution spectroscopy o…
Ultra-high energy cosmic rays, cascade gamma-rays, and high-energy neutrinos from gamma-ray bursts
Charles D. Dermer, Armen Atoyan
Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are sources of energetic, highly variable fluxes of gamma rays, which demonstrates that they are powerful particle accelerators. Besides relativistic electr…
Rapid X-ray Declines and Plateaus in Swift GRB Light Curves Explained by A Highly Radiative Blast Wave
Charles D. Dermer
GRB X-ray light curves display rapid declines followed by a gradual steepening or plateau phase in >~ 30% of GRBs in the Swift sample. Treating the standard relativistic blastwave…
Statistics of Cosmological Black Hole Jet Sources: Blazar Predictions for GLAST
Charles D. Dermer
A study of the statistics of cosmological black-hole jet sources is applied to EGRET blazar data, and predictions are made for GLAST. Black-hole jet sources are modeled as collimat…
Time-Dependent Synchrotron and Compton Spectra from Jets of Microquasars
Swati Gupta, Markus Boettcher, Charles D. Dermer
Jet models for the high-energy emission of Galactic X-ray binary sources have regained significant interest with detailed spectral and timing studies of the X-ray emission from mic…
Collapse of Neutron Stars to Black Holes in Binary Systems: A Model for Short Gamma Ray Bursts
Charles D. Dermer, Armen Atoyan
The accretion of ~ 0.1 -- 1 M_o of material by a neutron star through Roche lobe overflow of its companion or through white-dwarf/neutron-star coalescence in a low mass binary syst…