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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 powerful cosmic explosions since the Big Bang, and thus act as signposts throughout the distant Universe. Over the last 2 decades, these ultra-luminous cosmological explosions have been transformed from…

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are short and intense flashes at the cosmological distances, which are the most luminous explosions in the Universe. The high luminosities of GRBs make them detectable out to the edge of the visible universe. So,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-17 Patrick Petitjean , F. Y. Wang , X. F. Wu , J. J. Wei

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 brightest sources in the universe, emit mostly in the hard X-ray energy band and have been detected at redshifts up to ~8.1. Thus, they are in principle very powerful probes for cosmology. I shortly review…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-11 L. Amati

Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are the most violent explosions in the Universe. Long duration GRBs are associated with the collapse of massive stars, rivaling their host galaxies in luminosity. The discovery of the most distant spectroscopically…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 S. Campana , R. Salvaterra , G. Tagliaferri , C. Kouveliotou , J. Grindlay

Gamma-ray Bursts (GRBs) are the most powerful explosions known, capable of outshining the rest of gamma-ray sky during their short-lived prompt emission. Their cosmological nature makes them the best tool to explore the final stages in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-20 A. Cucchiara , T. Totani , N. R. Tanvir

Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) are among the most powerful sources in the Universe: they emit up to 10^54 erg in the hard X-ray band in few tens of seconds. The cosmological origin of GRBs has been confirmed by several spectroscopic measurements…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-19 G. Ghirlanda , G. Ghisellini , C. Firmani

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are extremely energetic events at cosmological distances. They provide unique laboratory to investigate fundamental physical processes under extreme conditions. Due to extreme luminosities, GRBs are detectable at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-21 Poonam Chandra

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most luminous explosions and can be detectable out to the edge of Universe. It has long been thought they can extend the Hubble diagram to very high redshifts. Several correlations between temporal or…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-26 F. Y. Wang , J. P. Hu , G. Q. Zhang , Z. G. Dai

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

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

Gamma ray bursts (GRBs) are astronomical phenomena detected at highest energies. The gamma ray photons carry energies on the order of mega-electronovolts and arrive to us from the point-like sources that are uniformly distributed on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-21 A. Janiuk , B. James , K. Sapountzis

Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are the strongest explosions in the Universe, which due to their extreme character likely involve some of the strongest magnetic fields in nature. This review discusses the possible roles of magnetic fields in GRBs,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-08 Jonathan Granot , Tsvi Piran , Omer Bromberg , Judith L. Racusin , Frédéric Daigne

Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are extra-galactic and extremely energetic transient emissions of gamma rays, which are thought to be associated with the death of massive stars or the merger of compact objects in binary systems. Their huge…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-20 F. Piron

Gamma-ray bursts are the most luminous explosions in the Universe. They appear connected to supernova remnants from massive stars or the merger of their remnants, and their brightness makes them temporarily detectable out to the larges…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-01-22 P. Meszaros , M. J. Rees

Cosmic gamma-ray bursts are one of the great frontiers of astrophysics today. They are a playground of relativists and observers alike. They may teach us about the death of stars and the birth of black holes, the physics in extreme…

Gamma-ray bursts are the most luminous explosions in the Universe, whose origin and mechanism is the focus of intense interest. They appear connected to supernova remnants from massive stars or the merger of their remnants, and their…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Peter Mészáros , Neil Gehrels

Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) are the most explosive events after the big bang: their energy output corresponds to a sizeable fraction of a solar mass entirely converted into energy in a few seconds. Although many questions about their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Ghisellini

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are bright flashes of gamma-rays coming from the cosmos. They occur roughly once per day, last typically 10s of seconds and are the most luminous events in the universe. More than three decades after their discovery,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-09-03 Neil Gehrels , Peter Meszaros
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