TY - JOUR
T1 - Gamma-Ray Bursts
T2 - What Do We Know Today That We Did Not Know 10 Years Ago?
AU - Pe’er, Asaf
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PY - 2024/12/31
Y1 - 2024/12/31
N2 - I discuss here the progress made in the last decade on a few of the key open problems in GRB physics. These include (1) the nature of GRB progenitors, and the outliers found to the collapsar/merger scenarios; (2) jet structures, whose existence became evident following GRB/GW170817; (3) the great progress made in understanding the GRB jet launching mechanisms, enabled by general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GR-MHD) codes; (4) recent studies of magnetic reconnection as a valid energy dissipation mechanism; (5) the early afterglow, which may be highly affected by a wind bubble, as well as recent indication that in many GRBs, the Lorentz factor is only a few tens, rather than a few hundreds. I highlight some recent observational progress, including the major breakthrough in detecting TeV photons and the on-going debate about their origin, polarization measurements, as well as the pair annihilation line recently detected in GRB 221009A, and its implications for prompt emission physics. I probe into some open questions that I anticipate will be at the forefront of GRB research in the next decade.
AB - I discuss here the progress made in the last decade on a few of the key open problems in GRB physics. These include (1) the nature of GRB progenitors, and the outliers found to the collapsar/merger scenarios; (2) jet structures, whose existence became evident following GRB/GW170817; (3) the great progress made in understanding the GRB jet launching mechanisms, enabled by general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GR-MHD) codes; (4) recent studies of magnetic reconnection as a valid energy dissipation mechanism; (5) the early afterglow, which may be highly affected by a wind bubble, as well as recent indication that in many GRBs, the Lorentz factor is only a few tens, rather than a few hundreds. I highlight some recent observational progress, including the major breakthrough in detecting TeV photons and the on-going debate about their origin, polarization measurements, as well as the pair annihilation line recently detected in GRB 221009A, and its implications for prompt emission physics. I probe into some open questions that I anticipate will be at the forefront of GRB research in the next decade.
KW - data analysis
KW - gamma-ray bursts
KW - gravitational waves
KW - theoretical modeling
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U2 - 10.3390/galaxies13010002
DO - 10.3390/galaxies13010002
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AN - SCOPUS:85218853459
SN - 2075-4434
VL - 13
JO - Galaxies
JF - Galaxies
IS - 1
M1 - 2
ER -