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The gamma-ray burst (GRB) model for production of ultra-high-energy cosmic-rays (UHECRs) is based on the hypothesis that GRBs arise from the dissipation of the kinetic energy of relativistic fireballs at cosmological distances. Recent GRB…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 E. Waxman

The main scientific goal of the Gravitational wave high-energy Electromagnetic Counterpart All-sky Monitor (GECAM) is to monitor various types of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRB) originated from merger of binary compact stars, which could also…

Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are unique probes of the cosmic star formation history and the state of the intergalactic medium up to the redshifts of the first stars. In particular, the ongoing {\it Swift} mission might be the first observatory…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Volker Bromm , Abraham Loeb

ECLAIRs is a hard X-ray coded-mask telescope onboard the SVOM space mission, designed to detect and localize high-energy transients, in particular gamma-ray bursts. Operating over the 4-150 keV energy range, ECLAIRs extends coded-mask…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-28 C. Lachaud , A. Givaudan , M. Karakac , W. Bertoli , S. Dheilly , C. Juffroy , C. Chapron , A. Gros , S. Schanne , S. Begoc , P. Guillemot , H. Pasquier

The fast temporal structures and cosmological distances of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) afford a natural laboratory for testing theories of frequency-dependent propagation of high-energy photons, as predicted for quantum gravity (QG). We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. P. Norris , J. T. Bonnell , G. F. Marani , J. D. Scargle

The prompt emission of Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) is still an outstanding question in the study of these cataclysmic events. Part of what makes GRBs difficult to study is how unique each event seems to be. However, aggregating many GRB…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-31 Tyler Parsotan , Hirotaka Ito

With the Swift detection of GRB090423 at z = 8.2, it was confirmed that GRBs are now detectable at (significantly) larger redshifts than AGN, and so can indeed be used as probes of the Early Universe. The proposed Energetic X-ray Imaging…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Jonathan E. Grindlay

The detection of astrophysical Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) has always been intertwined with the challenge of identifying the direction of the source. Accurate angular localization of better than a degree has been achieved to date only with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-25 Roi Rahin , Luca Moleri , Alex Vdovin , Amir Feigenboim , Solomon Margolin , Shlomit Tarem , Ehud Behar , Max Ghelman , Alon Osovizky

The Milagro gamma-ray observatory employs a water Cherenkov detector to observe extensive air showers produced by high energy particles interacting in the Earth's atmosphere. Milagro has a wide field of view and high duty cycle, monitoring…

We propose to perform a continuously scanning all-sky survey from 200 keV to 80 MeV achieving a sensitivity which is better by a factor of 40 or more compared to the previous missions in this energy range. The Gamma-Ray Imaging, Polarimetry…

Since its successful launch in June 2008, the {\it Fermi} Gamma-ray Space Telescope has made important breakthroughs in the understanding of the Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) phenomemon. The combination of the GBM and the LAT instruments onboard…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Frederic Piron , Valerie Connaughton

Recent advances in fitting prompt emission spectra in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are boosting our understanding of the still elusive origin of this radiation. These progresses have been possible thanks to a more detailed analysis of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-07 Lara Nava , Gor Oganesyan , Maria E. Ravasio , Lorenzo Amati , Giancarlo Ghirlanda , Paul O'Brien , Julian P. Osborne , Richard Willingale

It has recently been proposed that ultrahigh energy ($\gtrsim 10^{19}$ eV) cosmic rays (UHECRs) are accelerated by the blast waves associated with GRBs. We calculate the observed synchrotron radiation spectrum from protons and energetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 M. Boettcher , C. D. Dermer

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) can be probes of the early universe, but currently, only 26% of GRBs observed by the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory GRBs have known redshifts ($z$) due to observational limitations. To address this, we estimated the…

The use of Gamma Ray Bursts as ``standard candles'' has been made possible by the recent discovery of a very tight correlation between their rest frame intrinsic properties. This correlation relates the GRB prompt emission peak spectral…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Ghirlanda , G. Ghisellini , L. Nava , C. Firmani

This is a short report on the preliminary findings of the gamma ray burst (GRB) working group for the white paper on the status and future of very high energy (VHE; >50 GeV) gamma-ray astronomy. The white paper discusses the status of past…

Since the discovery of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs), attempts have been made to detect correlated optical transient emission from these objects. In January 1999, the ROTSE I robotic telescope detected a bright optical flash simultaneous with a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eliana Palazzi , Elena Pian

The detection of GeV photons from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) has important consequences for the interpretation and modelling of these most-energetic cosmological explosions. The full exploitation of the high-energy measurements relies,…

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are exceptionally bright electromagnetic events occurring daily on the sky. The prompt emission is dominated by X-/$\gamma$-rays. Since their discovery over 50 years ago, GRBs are primarily studied through spectral…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-12 M. Pearce , L. Eliasson , N. Kumar Iyer , M. Kiss , R. Kushwah , J. Larsson , C. Lundman , V. Mikhalev , F. Ryde , T. -A. Stana , H. Takahashi , F. Xie