Gamma Ray Bursts

TL;DR

This paper reviews recent observational and theoretical developments in gamma-ray bursts, focusing on high-energy photon phenomenology from X-ray to GeV energies, and discusses implications for future Cherenkov Telescope Array observations.

Contribution

It synthesizes recent Swift and Fermi data with theoretical models to enhance understanding of gamma-ray burst high-energy emissions and their implications for upcoming telescopic observations.

Findings

Detection of gamma-ray bursts at energies up to tens of GeV

Review of phenomenological models explaining high-energy emissions

Implications for future Cherenkov Telescope Array observations

Abstract

Gamma-ray bursts have been detected at photon energies up to tens of GeV. We review some recent developments in the X-ray to GeV photon phenomenology in the light of Swift and Fermi observations, and some of the theoretical models developed to explain them, with a view towards implications for C.T.A.