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Implications for the Origin of GRB 070201 from LIGO Observations

We analyzed the available LIGO data coincident with GRB 070201, a short duration hard spectrum gamma-ray burst whose electromagnetically determined sky position is coincident with the spiral arms of the Andromeda galaxy (M31). Possible…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 LIGO Scientific Collaboration , K. Hurley

The short-hard GRB 051103: Observations and implications for its nature

The bright short-hard GRB 051103 was triangulated by the inter-planetary network and found to occur in the direction of the nearby M81/M82 galaxy group. Given its possible local-Universe nature, we searched for an afterglow associated with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-12 E. O. Ofek , S. R. Kulkarni , E. Nakar , S. B. Cenko , P. B. Cameron , D. A. Frail , A. Gal-Yam , A. M. Soderberg , D. B. Fox

A Giant Flare from a Soft Gamma Repeater in the Andromeda Galaxy, M31

The light curve, energy spectra, energetics, and IPN localization of an exceedingly intense short duration hard spectrum burst, GRB 070201, obtained from Konus-Wind, INTEGRAL (SPI-ACS), and MESSENGER data are presented. The total fluence of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-18 E. P. Mazets , R. L. Aptekar , T. L. Cline , D. D. Frederiks , J. O. Goldsten , S. V. Golenetskii , K. Hurley , A. von Kienlin , V. D. Pal'shin

A new analysis of the short-duration, hard-spectrum GRB 051103, a possible extragalactic SGR giant flare

GRB 051103 is considered to be a candidate soft gamma repeater (SGR) extragalactic giant magnetar flare by virtue of its proximity on the sky to M81/M82, as well as its time history, localization, and energy spectrum. We have derived a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 K. Hurley , A. Rowlinson , E. Bellm , D. Perley , I. G. Mitrofanov , D. V. Golovin , A. S. Kozyrev , M. L. Litvak , A. B. Sanin , W. Boynton , C. Fellows , K. Harshmann , M. Ohno , K. Yamaoka , Y. E. Nakagawa , D. M. Smith , T. Cline , N. R. Tanvir , P. T. O'Brien , K. Wiersema , E. Rol , A. Levan , J. Rhoads , A. Fruchter , D. Bersier , J. J. Kavelaars , N. Gehrels , H. Krimm , D. M. Palmer , R. C. Duncan , C. Wigger , W. Hajdas , J. -L. Atteia , G. Ricker , R. Vanderspek , A. Rau , A. von Kienlin

On the Possibility of Identification of a Short/Hard Burst GRB 051103 with the Giant Flare from a Soft Gamma Repeater in the M81 Group of Galaxies

The light curve, energy characteristics, and localization of a short/hard GRB 051103 burst are considered. Evidence in favor of identifying this event with a giant flare from a soft gamma repeater in the nearby M81 group of interacting…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 D. D. Frederiks , V. D. Pal'shin , R. L. Aptekar' , S. V. Golenetskii , T. L. Cline , E. P. Mazets

Implications For The Origin Of GRB 051103 From LIGO Observations

We present the results of a LIGO search for gravitational waves (GWs) associated with GRB 051103, a short-duration hard-spectrum gamma-ray burst (GRB) whose electromagnetically determined sky position is coincident with the spiral galaxy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 The LIGO Scientific Collaboration , J. Abadie , B. P. Abbott , T. D. Abbott , R. Abbott , M. Abernathy , C. Adams , R. Adhikari , C. Affeldt , P. Ajith , B. Allen , G. S. Allen , E. Amador Ceron , D. Amariutei , R. S. Amin , S. B. Anderson , W. G. Anderson , K. Arai , M. A. Arain , M. C. Araya , S. M. Aston , D. Atkinson , P. Aufmuth , C. Aulbert , B. E. Aylott , S. Babak , P. Baker , S. Ballmer , D. Barker , S. Barnum , B. Barr , P. Barriga , L. Barsotti , M. A. Barton , I. Bartos , R. Bassiri , M. Bastarrika , J. Bauchrowitz , B. Behnke , A. S. Bell , I. Belopolski , M. Benacquista , A. Bertolini , J. Betzwieser , N. Beveridge , P. T. Beyersdorf , I. A. Bilenko , G. Billingsley , J. Birch , R. Biswas , E. Black , J. K. Blackburn , L. Blackburn , D. Blair , B. Bland , O. Bock , T. P. Bodiya , C. Bogan , R. Bondarescu , R. Bork , M. Born , S. Bose , M. Boyle , P. R. Brady , V. B. Braginsky , J. E. Brau , J. Breyer , D. O. Bridges , M. Brinkmann , M. Britzger , A. F. Brooks , D. A. Brown , A. Brummitt , A. Buonanno , J. Burguet-Castell , O. Burmeister , R. L. Byer , L. Cadonati , J. B. Camp , P. Campsie , J. Cannizzo , K. Cannon , J. Cao , C. Capano , S. Caride , S. Caudill , M. Cavaglia , C. Cepeda , T. Chalermsongsak , E. Chalkley , P. Charlton , S. Chelkowski , Y. Chen , N. Christensen , S. S. Y. Chua , S. Chung , C. T. Y. Chung , F. Clara , D. Clark , J. Clark , J. H. Clayton , R. Conte , D. Cook , T. R. C. Corbitt , N. Cornish , C. A. Costa , M. Coughlin , D. M. Coward , D. C. Coyne , J. D. E. Creighton , T. D. Creighton , A. M. Cruise , A. Cumming , L. Cunningham , R. M. Culter , K. Dahl , S. L. Danilishin , R. Dannenberg , K. Danzmann , K. Das , B. Daudert , H. Daveloza , G. Davies , E. J. Daw , T. Dayanga , D. DeBra , J. Degallaix , T. Dent , V. Dergachev , R. DeRosa , R. DeSalvo , S. Dhurandhar , I. Di Palma , M. Diaz , F. Donovan , K. L. Dooley , S. Dorsher , E. S. D. Douglas , R. W. P. Drever , J. C. Driggers , J. -C. Dumas , S. Dwyer , T. Eberle , M. Edgar , M. Edwards , A. Effler , P. Ehrens , R. Engel , T. Etzel , M. Evans , T. Evans , M. Factourovich , S. Fairhurst , Y. Fan , B. F. Farr , D. Fazi , H. Fehrmann , D. Feldbaum , L. S. Finn , M. Flanigan , S. Foley , E. Forsi , N. Fotopoulos , M. Frede , M. Frei , Z. Frei , A. Freise , R. Frey , T. T. Fricke , D. Friedrich , P. Fritschel , V. V. Frolov , P. Fulda , M. Fyffe , J. Garcia , J. A. Garofoli , I. Gholami , S. Ghosh , J. A. Giaime , S. Giampanis , K. D. Giardina , C. Gill , E. Goetz , L. M. Goggin , G. Gonzalez , M. L. Gorodetsky , S. Gossler , C. Graef , A. Grant , S. Gras , C. Gray , R. J. S. Greenhalgh , A. M. Gretarsson , R. Grosso , H. Grote , S. Grunewald , C. Guido , R. Gupta , E. K. Gustafson , R. Gustafson , B. Hage , J. M. Hallam , D. Hammer , G. Hammond , J. Hanks , C. Hanna , J. Hanson , J. Harms , G. M. Harry , I. W. Harry , E. D. Harstad , M. T. Hartman , K. Haughian , K. Hayama , J. Heefner , M. A. Hendry , I. S. Heng , A. W. Heptonstall , V. Herrera , M. Hewitson , S. Hild , D. Hoak , K. A. Hodge , K. Holt , T. Hong , S. Hooper , D. J. Hosken , J. Hough , E. J. Howell , B. Hughey , S. Husa , S. H. Huttner , D. R. Ingram , R. Inta , T. Isogai , A. Ivanov , W. W. Johnson , D. I. Jones , G. Jones , R. Jones , L. Ju , P. Kalmus , V. Kalogera , S. Kandhasamy , J. B. Kanner , E. Katsavounidis , W. Katzman , K. Kawabe , S. Kawamura , F. Kawazoe , W. Kells , M. Kelner , D. G. Keppel , A. Khalaidovski , F. Y. Khalili , E. A. Khazanov , N. Kim , H. Kim , P. J. King , D. L. Kinzel , J. S. Kissel , S. Klimenko , V. Kondrashov , R. Kopparapu , S. Koranda , W. Z. Korth , D. Kozak , V. Kringel , S. Krishnamurthy , B. Krishnan , G. Kuehn , R. Kumar , P. Kwee , M. Landry , B. Lantz , N. Lastzka , A. Lazzarini , P. Leaci , J. Leong , I. Leonor , J. Li , P. E. Lindquist , N. A. Lockerbie , D. Lodhia , M. Lormand , P. Lu , J. Luan , M. Lubinski , H. Luck , A. P. Lundgren , E. Macdonald , B. Machenschalk , M. MacInnis , M. Mageswaran , K. Mailand , I. Mandel , V. Mandic , A. Marandi , S. Marka , Z. Marka , E. Maros , I. W. Martin , R. M. Martin , J. N. Marx , K. Mason , F. Matichard , L. Matone , R. A. Matzner , N. Mavalvala , R. McCarthy , D. E. McClelland , S. C. McGuire , G. McIntyre , J. McIver , D. J. A. McKechan , G. Meadors , M. Mehmet , T. Meier , A. Melatos , A. C. Melissinos , G. Mendell , R. A. Mercer , S. Meshkov , C. Messenger , M. S. Meyer , H. Miao , J. Miller , Y. Mino , V. P. Mitrofanov , G. Mitselmakher , R. Mittleman , O. Miyakawa , B. Moe , P. Moesta , S. D. Mohanty , D. Moraru , G. Moreno , K. Mossavi , C. M. Mow-Lowry , G. Mueller , S. Mukherjee , A. Mullavey , H. Muller-Ebhardt , J. Munch , D. Murphy , P. G. Murray , T. Nash , R. Nawrodt , J. Nelson , G. Newton , A. Nishizawa , D. Nolting , L. Nuttall , B. O'Reilly , R. O'Shaughnessy , E. Ochsner , J. O'Dell , G. H. Ogin , R. G. Oldenburg , C. Osthelder , C. D. Ott , D. J. Ottaway , R. S. Ottens , H. Overmier , B. J. Owen , A. Page , Y. Pan , C. Pankow , M. A. Papa , P. Patel , M. Pedraza , L. Pekowsky , S. Penn , C. Peralta , A. Perreca , M. Phelps , M. Pickenpack , I. M. Pinto , M. Pitkin , H. J. Pletsch , M. V. Plissi , J. Podkaminer , J. Pold , F. Postiglione , V. Predoi , L. R. Price , M. Prijatelj , M. Principe , S. Privitera , R. Prix , L. Prokhorov , O. Puncken , V. Quetschke , F. J. Raab , H. Radkins , P. Raffai , M. Rakhmanov , C. R. Ramet , B. Rankins , S. R. P. Mohapatra , V. Raymond , K. Redwine , C. M. Reed , T. Reed , S. Reid , D. H. Reitze , R. Riesen , K. Riles , P. Roberts , N. A. Robertson , C. Robinson , E. L. Robinson , S. Roddy , J. Rollins , J. D. Romano , J. H. Romie , C. Rover , S. Rowan , A. Rudiger , K. Ryan , S. Sakata , M. Sakosky , F. Salemi , M. Salit , L. Sammut , L. Sancho de la Jordana , V. Sandberg , V. Sannibale , L. SantamarÌa , I. Santiago-Prieto , G. Santostasi , S. Saraf , B. S. Sathyaprakash , S. Sato , P. R. 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Trias , K. Tseng , D. Ugolini , K. Urbanek , H. Vahlbruch , B. Vaishnav , M. Vallisneri , C. Van Den Broeck , M. V. van der Sluys , A. A. van Veggel , S. Vass , R. Vaulin , A. Vecchio , J. Veitch , P. J. Veitch , C. Veltkamp , A. E. Villar , C. Vorvick , S. P. Vyachanin , S. J. Waldman , L. Wallace , A. Wanner , R. L. Ward , P. Wei , M. Weinert , A. J. Weinstein , R. Weiss , L. Wen , S. Wen , P. Wessels , M. West , T. Westphal , K. Wette , J. T. Whelan , S. E. Whitcomb , D. White , B. F. Whiting , C. Wilkinson , P. A. Willems , H. R. Williams , L. Williams , B. Willke , L. Winkelmann , W. Winkler , C. C. Wipf , A. G. Wiseman , G. Woan , R. Wooley , J. Worden , J. Yablon , I. Yakushin , K. Yamamoto , H. Yamamoto , H. Yang , D. Yeaton-Massey , S. Yoshida , P. Yu , M. Zanolin , L. Zhang , Z. Zhang , C. Zhao , N. Zotov , M. E. Zucker , J. Zweizig , M. A. Bizouard , A. Dietz , G. M. Guidi , M. Was

The afterglow of the short/intermediate-duration gamma-ray burst GRB 000301C: A jet at z=2.04

We present Ulysses and NEAR data from the detection of the short or intermediate duration (2 s) gamma-ray burst GRB000301C (2000 March 1.41 UT). The gamma-ray burst (GRB) was localised by the Inter Planetary Network (IPN) and RXTE to an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. L. Jensen , J. U. Fynbo , J. Gorosabel , J. Hjorth , S. Holland , P. Moller , B. Thomsen , G. Bjornsson , H. Pedersen , I. Burud , A. Henden , N. R. Tanvir , C. J. Davis , P. Vreeswijk , E. Rol , K. Hurley , T. Cline , J. Trombka , T. McClanahan , R. Starr , J. Goldsten , A. J. Castro-Tirado , J. Greiner , C. A. L. Bailer-Jones , M. Kuemmel , R. Mundt

Probing the Nature of Short Swift Bursts via Deep INTEGRAL Monitoring of GRB 050925

We present results from Swift, XMM-Newton, and deep INTEGRAL monitoring in the region of GRB 050925. This short Swift burst is a candidate for a newly discovered soft gamma-ray repeater (SGR) with the following observational burst…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 T. Sakamoto , L. Barbier , S. D. Barthelmy , J. R. Cummings , E. E. Fenimore , N. Gehrels , H. A. Krimm , C. B. Markwardt , D. M. Palmer , A. M. Parsons , G. Sato , M. Stamatikos , J. Tueller

SGRs in nearby galaxies: rate, luminosity function and fraction among short GRBs

It was suggested that some of the short-duration Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRB) are giant flares of Soft Gamma-ray Repeaters (SGR) in nearby galaxies. To test this hypothesis, I have constructed a sample of 47 short GRBs, detected by the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Eran O. Ofek

Discovery of a New Soft Gamma Repeater, SGR 1627-41

We report the discovery of a new soft gamma repeater (SGR), SGR 1627-41, and present BATSE observations of the burst emission and BeppoSAX NFI observations of the probable persistent X-ray counterpart to this SGR. All but one burst spectrum…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Peter M. Woods , Chryssa Kouveliotou , Jan van Paradijs , Kevin Hurley , R. Marc Kippen , Mark H. Finger , Michael S. Briggs , Stefan Dieters , Gerald J. Fishman

SGR 0755$-$2933: a new High Mass X-ray binary with the wrong name

The soft gamma-ray repeater candidate SGR 0755$-$2933 was discovered in 2016 by Swift/BAT, which detected a short ($\sim$30 ms) powerful burst typical of magnetars. To understand the nature of the source, we present here an analysis of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-31 Victor Doroshenko , Andrea Santangelo , Sergey Tsygankov , Long Ji

On the nature of the short duration GRB 050906

We present deep optical and infrared observations of the short duration GRB 050906. Although no X-ray or optical/IR afterglow was discovered to deep limits, the error circle of the GRB (as derived from the Swift BAT) is unusual incontaining…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-04-13 A. J. Levan , N. R. Tanvir , P. Jakobsson , R. Chapman , J. Hjorth , R. S. Priddey , J. P. U. Fynbo , K. Hurley , B. L. Jensen , R. Johnson , J. Gorosabel , A. J. Castro-Tirado , M. Jarvis , D. Watson , K. Wiersema

GRB 050509B: Constraints on short gamma-ray burst models

We have obtained deep optical images with the Very Large Telescope at ESO of the first well-localized short-duration gamma-ray burst, GRB 050509B. From V and R imaging, initiated ~2 days after the GRB trigger and lasting up to three weeks,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Hjorth , J. Sollerman , J. Gorosabel , J. Granot , S. Klose , C. Kouveliotou , J. Melinder , E. Ramirez-Ruiz , R. Starling , B. Thomsen , M. I. Andersen , J. P. U. Fynbo , B. L. Jensen , P. M. Vreeswijk , J. M. Castro Cerón , P. Jakobsson , A. Levan , K. Pedersen , J. E. Rhoads , N. R. Tanvir , D. Watson , R. A. M. J. Wijers

A short gamma-ray burst apparently asssociated with an elliptical galaxy at redshift z=0.225

Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) are bright, brief flashes of high energy photons that have fascinated scientists for 30 years. They come in two classes: long (>2 s), softspectrum bursts and short, hard events. The major progress to date on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-19 N. Gehrels

The distances of short-hard GRBs and the SGR connection

We present a search for nearby (D<100 Mpc) galaxies in the error boxes of six well-localized short-hard gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). None of the six error boxes reveals the presence of a plausible nearby host galaxy. This allows us to set lower…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 Ehud Nakar , Avishay Gal-Yam , Tsvi Piran , Derek B. Fox

Short gamma-ray bursts within 200 Mpc

We present a systematic search for short-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) in the local Universe based on 14 years of observations with the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory. We cross-correlate the GRB positions with the GLADE catalogue of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-12 S. Dichiara , E. Troja , B. O'Connor , F. E. Marshall , P. Beniamini , J. K. Cannizzo , A. Y. Lien , T. Sakamoto

GRB 260310A / SN 2026fgk: A Multi-Wavelength Study of a Nearby Underluminous Long GRB and SN with a Complex Afterglow

We present a comprehensive multi-wavelength study of GRB 260310A / SN 2026fgk, a nearby ($z=0.153$), long-duration gamma-ray burst (GRB) with an exceptionally underluminous prompt $\gamma$-ray emission and a Comptonized spectrum. It is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-26 Ramandeep Gill , Rosa L. Becerra , Antonio de Ugarte Postigo , Christina C. Thöne , Alan M. Watson , Noémie Globus , Jean-Grégoire Ducoin , Peter Veres , Stanley E. Kurtz , Asuka Kuwata , Antonio Martín-Carrillo , Luca Izzo , Christophe Adami , Enrique Moreno Méndez , Nikos Mandarakas , Camila Angulo-Valdez , Stéphane Basa , William H. Lee , Edilberto Aguilar-Ruiz , Dalya Akl , Margo F. Aller , Miguel Ángel Aloy , Jie An , Sarah Antier , Jean-Luc Atteia , Nathaniel R. Butler , Krittapas Chanchaiworawit , Philipe V. De La Parra , Damien Dornic , Francis Fortin , Shaoyu Fu , Johan P. U. Fynbo , Lluis Galbany , Leonardo García-García , Stefan Geier , Marion Guelfand , Linbo He , Shuaiqing Jiang , Emeric Le Floc'h , Massimiliano Lincetto , Xing Liu , Gianluca Lombardi , Diego López-Cámara , Daniele Bjørn Malesani , Francesco Magnani , Kanthanakorn Noysena , Margarita Pereyra , Ny Avo Rakotondrainibe , Anthony C. S. Readhead , Delphine Russeil , Fredd Sánchez-Álvarez , Benjamin Schneider , Tirth D. Surti , Nial R. Tanvir , Samaporn Tinyanont , Dong Xu , Zipei Zhu

GRB$\,$220831A: a hostless, intermediate Gamma-ray burst with an unusual optical afterglow

GRB$\,$220831A is a gamma-ray burst (GRB) with a duration and spectral peak energy that places it at the interface between the distribution of long-soft and short-hard GRBs. In this paper, we present the multi-wavelength follow-up campaign…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-24 James Freeburn , Brendan O'Connor , Jeff Cooke , Dougal Dobie , Anais Möller , Nicolas Tejos , Jielai Zhang , Paz Beniamini , Katie Auchettl , James DeLaunay , Simone Dichiara , Wen-fai Fong , Simon Goode , Alexa Gordon , Charles D. Kilpatrick , Amy Lien , Cassidy Mihalenko , Geoffrey Ryan , Karelle Siellez , Mark Suhr , Eleonora Troja , Natasha Van Bemmel , Sara Webb

A very low luminosity X-ray flash: XMM-Newton observations of GRB 031203

GRB031203 was observed by XMM-Newton twice, first with an observation beginning 6 hours after the burst, and again after 3 days. The afterglow had average 0.2-10.0keV fluxes for the first and second observations of 4.2+/-0.1x10^-13 and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-18 D. Watson , J. Hjorth , A. Levan , P. Jakobsson , P. T. O'Brien , J. P. Osborne , K. Pedersen , J. N. Reeves , J. A. Tedds , S. A. Vaughan , M. J. Ward , R. Willingale

Rebrightening in GRBs by Precessing Jet

A clear gamma polarization in the gamma signals from GRB021206 probes the presence of a very thin collimated jet (opening angle Delta\theta < 0.6^o, (Delta\Omega)\Omega< 2.5 10^-5) in Gamma Ray Burst, GRBs. The last and well proved…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Fargion