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We classify gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) according to their observed durations and physical properties of their spectra. We find that long/hard bursts (of duration T_90 > 2.5 s, and typical photon energy E_p > 0.8 MeV corresponding to BATSE's…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Marco Tavani

The use of GRB energetics for cosmography has long been advanced as a means to probe out to high redshifts, to the epoch of deceleration. However, the prompt energy release in GRBs, even when corrected for jetting geometry, is far from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Andrew S. Friedman , Joshua S. Bloom

As so far, the redshift of Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) can extend to $z\sim 8$ which makes it as a complementary probe of dark energy to supernova Ia (SN Ia). However, the calibration of GRBs is still a big challenge when they are used to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Lixin Xu

We compare the burst distribution of the new (2B) BATSE catalogue to a cosmological distribution. The observed distribution agrees well with a cosmological one, however, it is insensitive to cosmological parameters such as $\O$ and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Ehud Cohen , Tsvi Piran

The determination of distances is highly constrained to a small number of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) because it requires observations at different wavelengths. Some empirical functions to estimate redshifts have been identified using…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-04 J. Rodrigo Sacahui , M. Antonio Morales , M. Magdalena González

The 2002 discovery of the "Amati Relation" of GRB spectra created the possibility that this and other correlations of GRB phenomenology might be used to make GRBs into standard candles. One recurring apparent difficulty with this program…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-08-16 Carlo Graziani

As one of the most energetic and brightest events, gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) can be treated as a promising probe of the high-redshift universe. Similar to type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia), GRBs with same physical origin could be treated as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-09 Jia-Lun Li , Yu-Peng Yang , Shuang-Xi Yi , Jian-Ping Hu , Fa-Yin Wang , Yan-Kun Qu

Long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) offer significant insights into cosmology due to their high energy emissions and the potential to probe the early universe. The Amati relation, which links the intrinsic peak energy to the isotropic energy, is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-06 Darshan Singh , Meghendra Singh , Dinkar Verma , Kanhaiya Lal Pandey , Shashikant Gupta

The 26 long-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) with known redshifts form a distinct cosmological set, selected differently than other cosmological probes such as quasars and galaxies. Since the progenitors are now believed to be connected…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. S. Bloom

Several correlations among Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) quantities, both in the prompt and afterglow emissions, have been established during the last decades, thus enabling the standardization of GRBs as cosmological probes. Since GRBs are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-29 Giada Bargiacchi , Maria Giovanna Dainotti , Salvatore Capozziello

[Abridged] Very recently, relations between the peak energy of Gamma-Ray Burst burst spectra, the isotropic-equivalent energy of the burst, and the radiated energy of the burst have been found. In a way that is exactly analogous to the way…

We predict the redshift distribution of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) assuming that they trace the cosmic star formation history. We find that a fraction >~50% of all GRBs on the sky originate at a redshift z >~5, even though the fraction of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-19 Volker Bromm , Abraham Loeb

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are violent stellar explosions that are traditionally divided into two groups: short bursts (SGRBs) with an observed duration T90 < 2 s, and long bursts (LGRBs) with an observed duration T90 > 2 s, where T90 refers…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-21 Ali M. Hasan , Walid J. Azzam

Several hundred gamma-ray burst (GRB) redshifts have been determined to date. One of the other important properties-besides the distance-of the GRBs is the duration of the burst. In this paper, we analyse these two important quantities of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-30 I. Horvath , I. I. Racz , Z. Bagoly , L. G. Balazs , S. Pinter

We show that the distribution of observed energies of GRB with known redshifts can be explained by the hypothesis of the standard energy release E_0=5 10^51 ergs. Two situations are possible, either the beaming angle differs from burst to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 K. A. Postnov , M. E. Prokhorov , V. M. Lipunov

In this paper, we continue to build support for the proposal to use gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) as standard candles in constructing the Hubble Diagram at redshifts beyond the current reach of Type Ia supernova observations. We confirm that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Jun-Jie Wei , Xue-Feng Wu , Fulvio Melia

This article gives an overview of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and their relation to astroparticle physics and cosmology. GRBs are the most powerful explosions in the universe that occur roughly once per day and are characterized by flashes of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-27 Jakub Ripa

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most luminous electromagnetic explosions in the Universe, which emit up to $8.8\times10^{54}$ erg isotropic equivalent energy in the hard X-ray band. The high luminosity makes them detectable out to the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 F. Y. Wang , Z. G. Dai , E. W. Liang

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

In light of the recent finding of the narrow clustering of the geometrically-corrected gamma-ray energies emitted by Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs), we investigate the possibility to use these sources as standard candles to probe cosmological…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Di Girolamo , M. Vietri , G. Di Sciascio