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The prompt emission mechanism of gamma-ray bursts (GRB) even after several decades remains a mystery. However, it is believed that correlations between observable GRB properties given their huge luminosity/radiated energy and redshift…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-25 Maria Dainotti

The distributions of spectral characteristics and their correlations with fluence, peak flux, or duration, are essential in understanding the nature of GRBs. However, the selection effects involved in detecting GRBs can distort these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-06 Nicole M. Lloyd-Ronning , Vahe' Petrosian

Owing to lack of multiple components of prompt $\gamma$-ray emissions in short gamma-ray bursts (sGRBs), how these distinct components are correlated still keeps unclear. In this paper, we investigate the spectral and temporal properties of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-26 X. J. Li , Z. B. Zhang , K. Zhang

Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are very energetic cosmological transients. Long GRBs are usually associated with Type Ib/c Supernovae (SNe), and we refer to them as GRB-SNe. Since the associated SN for a given GRB is observed only at low redshift,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-13 M. G. Dainotti , B. De Simone , M. I. Khadir , K. Kawaguchi , T. J. Moriya , T. Takiwaki , N. Tominaga , A. Gangopadhyay

One of the most prominent, yet controversial associations derived from the ensemble of prompt-phase observations of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is the apparent correlation in the source frame between the peak energy Epeak) of the nu-F(nu)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 H. A. Krimm , K. Yamaoka , S. Sugita , M. Ohno , T. Sakamoto , S. D. Barthelmy , N. Gehrels , R. Hara , J. P. Norris , N. Ohmori , K. Onda , G. Sato , H. Tanaka , M. Tashiro , M. Yamauchi

The analysis of 176 gamma ray burst (GRB) afterglow plateaus observed by Swift from GRBs with known redshifts revealed that the subsample of long GRBs associated with supernovae (LONG-SNe) - 19 events - presents a very high correlation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-12 Maria G. Dainotti , Shigehiro Nagataki , Keichi Maeda , Sergey Postnikov , Elena Pian

We have discovered a correlation between the observed peak spectral energy E_pk,obs and the average Euclidean value of V/V_max of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). We present the evidence for the correlation in the GUSBAD catalog and use it to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-06 Maarten Schmidt

Context. In the context of an in-depth understanding of GRBs and their possible use in cosmology, some important correlations between the parameters that describe their emission have been discovered, among which the "Ep,i-Eiso" correlation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-13 Renato Martone , Luca Izzo , Massimo Della Valle , Lorenzo Amati , Giuseppe Longo , Diego Götz

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) show diverse X-ray afterglow light-curves, including breaks and plateaus, whose physical origins remain debated. Previous claims linked high-energy ($E \ge 100$ MeV) detection to X-ray afterglow complexity or plateau…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-27 A. A. Vigliano , F. Longo , Ž. Bošnjak

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are among the most energetic explosive phenomena in the Universe, and their peak energy ($E_{\rm p}$) is a key physical quantity for understanding the prompt emission mechanism. However, due to the limited energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-08 Wan-Peng Sun , Si-Yuan Zhu , Da-Ling Ma , Fu-Wen Zhang

I investigate the origin of the observed correlation between a GRB's nuFnu spectral peak Epk and its isotropic equivalent energy Eiso through the use of a population synthesis code to model the prompt gamma-ray emission from GRBs. By using…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Daniel Kocevski

We examined the properties of a sample of BATSE Gamma--Ray Bursts (GRBs) comprising events which have indications of association with a supernova (SN), some on the basis of indications of re--brightening in the optical afterglow light…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Z. Bosnjak , A. Celotti , G. Ghirlanda , M. Della Valle , E. Pian

Detection of prompt emission by Swift-XRT provides a unique tool to study how the prompt spectrum of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) extends down to the soft X-ray band. This energy band is particularly important for prompt emission studies, since…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-05 Gor Oganesyan , Lara Nava , Giancarlo Ghirlanda , Annalisa Celotti

The complex structure of the light curves of Swift GRBs has made their interpretation and that of the blast wave caused by the burst, more difficult than in the pre-Swift era. We aim to constrain the blast wave parameters: electron energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-06-25 P. A. Curran , A. J. van der Horst , R. L. C. Starling , R. A. M. J. Wijers

Using the gamma-ray bursts simultaneously detected by Swift/BAT and Fermi/GBM we performed a joint spectral and temporal analysis of the prompt emission data and confirm the rough correlation between the BAT-band photon index Gamma_BAT and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Francisco Virgili , Ying Qin , Bing Zhang , Enwei Liang

We present the results of a comprehensive study of the luminosity function, energetics, prompt gamma-ray correlations, and classification methodology of short-hard and long-soft GRBs (SGRBs and LGRBs), based on observational data in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-06 Amir Shahmoradi , Robert J. Nemiroff

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 origin of the gamma-ray burst (GRB) prompt emission still defies explanation, in spite of recent progress made, for example, on the occasional presence of a thermal component in the spectrum along with the ubiquitous non-thermal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-23 S. Dichiara , C. Guidorzi , L. Amati , F. Frontera , R. Margutti

Spectral lag, the time difference between the arrival of high-energy and low-energy photons, is a common feature in Gamma-ray Bursts (GRBs). Norris et al. 2000 reported a correlation between the spectral lag and the isotropic peak…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 T. N. Ukwatta , M. Stamatikos , K. S. Dhuga , T. Sakamoto , S. D. Barthelmy , A. Eskandarian , N. Gehrels , L. C. Maximon , J. P. Norris , W. C. Parke

We discuss the preliminary results of spectral analysis simulations involving anticipated correlated multi-wavelength observations of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) using Swift's Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) and the Gamma-Ray Large Area Space…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Michael Stamatikos , Takanori Sakamoto , David L. Band