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Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are widely proposed as an effective probe to trace the Hubble diagram of the Universe in high redshift range. However, the calibration of GRBs is not as easy as that of type-Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). Most calibrating…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-21 Hai-Nan Lin , Xin Li , Sai Wang , Zhe Chang

Evolution of the rate density of cosmological gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is calculated and compared to the BATSE brightness distribution in the context of binary neutron-star mergers as the source of GRBs, taking account of the realistic star…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 Tomonori Totani

Instrumental selection effects can act upon the estimates of the peak energy Ep, the fluence F and the peak flux P of GRBs. If this were the case, then the correlations involving the corresponding rest frame quantities (i.e. Ep, Eiso and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-06-25 Lara Nava , Giancarlo Ghirlanda , Gabriele Ghisellini

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are promising cosmological probes for exploring the Universe at intermediate redshifts ($z$). We analyze 151 Fermi-observed long GRBs (datasets A123 and A28) to simultaneously constrain the Amati correlation and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-02 Shulei Cao , Bharat Ratra

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most explosive phenomena and can be used to study the expansion of Universe. In this paper, we compile a long GRB sample for the $E_{\mathrm{iso}}$-$E_{\mathrm{p}}$ correlation from Swift and Fermi…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-21 X. D. Jia , J. P. Hu , J. Yang , B. B. Zhang , F. Y. Wang

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are detectable out to very large distances and as such are potentially powerful cosmological probes. Historically, the angular distribution of GRBs provided important information about their origin and physical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-11-11 T. N. Ukwatta , P. R. Wozniak

Building on Nakar & Piran's analysis of the Amati relation relating gamma-ray burst peak energies E_p and isotropic energies E_iso, we test the consistency of a large sample of BATSE bursts with the Amati and Ghirlanda (which relates peak…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 David L. Band , Robert D. Preece

The redshift distribution of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is strongly biased by selection effects. We investigate, via Monte Carlo simulations, one possible selection effect that may be modifying the Swift GRB redshift distribution. We show how…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 A. Imerito , D. M. Coward , R. R. Burman , D. G. Blair

After presenting a short history of gamma-ray burst (GRB) studies, we discuss the current constraints on GRB models which follows from astronomical observations. We concentrate on the energetics of the GRBs with known redshifts and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. A. Postnov

The cosmic evolution of gamma-ray burst (GRB) luminosity is essential for revealing the GRB physics and for using GRBs as cosmological probes. We investigate the luminosity evolution of long GRBs with a large sample of 258 {\em Swift}/BAT…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-06 Can-Min Deng , Xiang-Gao Wang , Bei-Bei Guo , Rui-Jing Lu , Yuan-Zhu Wang , Jun-Jie Wei , Xue-Feng Wu , En-Wei Liang

In this paper, we firstly calibrate the Amati relation (the $E_{\rm p}-E_{\rm iso}$ correlation) of gamma ray bursts (GRBs) at low redshifts ($z<0.8$) via Gaussian process by using the type Ia supernovae samples from Pantheon+ under the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-12 Yuhao Mu , Baorong Chang , Lixin Xu

The unrivalled, extreme luminosities of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) make them the favored beacons for sampling the high redshift Universe. To employ GRBs to study the cosmic terrain -- e.g., star and galaxy formation history -- GRB luminosities…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. P. Norris

We exploit the 14 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) with known redshifts z and the 7 GRBs for which there are constraints on z to determine the GRB rate R_{GRB}(z), using a method based on Bayesian inference. We find that, despite the qualitative…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Nevin Weinberg , Carlo Graziani , Donald Q. Lamb , Daniel E. Reichart

We present a catalog of the redshift estimates and probability distributions for 1366 individual Long-duration Gamma-Ray Bursts (LGRBs) detected by the Burst And Transient Source Experiment (BATSE). This result is based on a careful…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-19 Amir Shahmoradi , Robert J. Nemiroff

The determination of luminosity function (LF) of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is of an important role for the cosmological applications of the GRBs, which is however hindered seriously by some selection effects due to redshift measurements. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-10-17 Wei-Wei Tan , Xiao-Feng Cao , Yun-Wei Yu

We estimate the luminosity evolution and formation rate for over 900 GRBs by using redshift and luminosity data calculated by Band, Norris, $&$ Bonnell (2004) via the lag-luminosity correlation. By applying maximum likelihood techniques, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Daniel Kocevski , Edison Liang

The duration distribution of 408 GRBs with measured both duration $T_{90}$ and redshift $z$ is examined. Mixtures of a number of distributions (standard normal, skew-normal, sinh-arcsinh, and alpha-skew-normal) are fitted to the observed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-13 Mariusz Tarnopolski

We show how the redshift and peak-flux distributions of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have an observation time dependence that can be used to discriminate between different burst populations. We demonstrate how observation time relations can be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-02-20 E. J. Howell , D. M. Coward

The cosmic gamma-ray burst (GRB) formation rate, as derived from the variability-luminosity relation for long-duration GRBs, is compared with the cosmic star formation rate. If GRBs are related to the collapse of massive stars, one expects…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz , Edward E. Fenimore , Neil Trentham

Long duration Gamma-Ray Bursts (LGRBs) may serve as standard candles to constrain cosmological parameters by probing the Hubble diagram well beyond the range of redshift currently accessible using type-Ia supernovae. The standardization of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-12-30 F. Fana Dirirsa , S. Razzaque , F. Piron , M. Arimoto , M. Axelsson , D. Kocevski , F. Longo , M. Ohno , S. Zhu