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GRB 080503: Implications of a Naked Short Gamma-Ray Burst Dominated by Extended Emission

We report on observations of GRB 080503, a short gamma-ray burst with very bright extended emission (about 30 times the gamma-ray fluence of the initial spike) in conjunction with a thorough comparison to other short Swift events. In spite…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 D. A. Perley , B. D. Metzger , J. Granot , N. R. Butler , T. Sakamoto , E. Ramirez-Ruiz , A. J. Levan , J. S. Bloom , A. A. Miller , A. Bunker , H. -W. Chen , A. V. Filippenko , N. Gehrels , K. Glazebrook , P. B. Hall , K. C. Hurley , D. Kocevski , W. Li , S. Lopez , J. Norris , A. L. Piro , D. Poznanski , J. X. Prochaska , E. Quataert , N. Tanvir

GRB 050505: A high redshift burst discovered by Swift

We report the discovery and subsequent multi-wavelength afterglow behaviour of the high redshift (z = 4.27) Gamma Ray Burst GRB 050505. This burst is the third most distant burst, measured by spectroscopic redshift, discovered after GRB…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-19 C. P. Hurkett , J. P. Osborne , K. L. Page , E. Rol , M. R. Goad , P. T. O'Brien , A. Beardmore , O. Godet , D. N. Burrows , N. R. Tanvir , A. Levan , B. Zhang , D. Malesani , J. E. Hill , J. A. Kennea , R. Chapman , V. La Parola , M. Perri , P. Romano , R. Smith , N. Gehrels

Testing GRB models with the afterglow of GRB 090102

We present the observations of the afterglow of gamma-ray burst GRB 090102. Optical data taken by the TAROT, REM, GROND, together with publicly available data from Palomar, IAC and NOT telescopes, and X-ray data taken by the XRT instrument…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 B. Gendre , A. Klotz , E. Palazzi , T. Kruhler , S. Covino , P. Afonso , L. A. Antonelli , J. L. Atteia , P. D'Avanzo , M. Boer , J. Greiner , S. Klose

Deep Photometry of GRB 041006 Afterglow: Hypernova Bump at Redshift z=0.716

We present deep optical photometry of the afterglow of gamma-ray burst (GRB) 041006 and its associated hypernova obtained over 65 days after detection (55 R-band epochs on 10 different nights). Our early data (t<4 days) joined with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 K. Z. Stanek , P. M. Garnavich , P. A. Nutzman , J. D. Hartman , A. Garg , K. Adelberger , P. Berlind , A. Z. Bonanos , M. L. Calkins , P. Challis , B. S. Gaudi , M. J. Holman , R. P. Kirshner , B. A. McLeod , D. Osip , T. Pimenova T. H. Reiprich , W. Romanishin , T. Spahr , S. C. Tegler , X. Zhao

The complex light-curve of the afterglow of GRB071010A

We present and discuss the results of an extensive observational campaign devoted to GRB071010A, a long-duration gamma-ray burst detected by the Swift satellite. This event was followed for almost a month in the optical/near-infrared (NIR)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-06 S. Covino , P. D'Avanzo , A. Klotz , D. A. Perley , L. Amati , S. Campana , G. Chincarini , A. Cucchiara , V. D'Elia , D. Guetta , C. Guidorzi , D. A. Kann , A. Küpcü Yoldaş , K. Misra , G. Olofsson , G. Tagliaferri , L. A. Antonelli , E. Berger , J. S. Bloom , M. Böer , C. Clemens , F. D'Alessio , M. Della Valle , S. di Serego Alighieri , A. V. Filippenko , R. J. Foley , D. B. Fox , D. Fugazza , J. Fynbo , B. Gendre , P. Goldoni , J. Greiner , D. Kocevksi , E. Maiorano , N. Masetti , E. Meurs , M. Modjaz , E. Molinari , A. Moretti , E. Palazzi , S. B. Pandey , S. Piranomonte , D. Poznanski , N. Primak , P. Romano , E. Rossi , R. Roy , J. M. Silverman , L. Stella , G. Stratta , V. Testa , S. D. Vergani , F. Vitali , F. Zerbi

Swift and XMM observations of the dark GRB 050326

We present Swift and XMM observations of GRB 050326, detected by Swift-BAT. The fluence was 7.7x10^-6 erg cm^-2 (20-150 keV), and its spectrum was hard, with a power law photon index 1.25. The afterglow light curve did not show any break…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-19 A. Moretti , A. De Luca , D. Malesani , S. Campana , A. Tiengo , A. Cucchiara , J. N. Reeves , G. Chincarini , C. Pagani , P. Romano , G. Tagliaferri , P. Banat , M. Capalbi , M. Perri , G. Cusumano , V. Mangano , T. Mineo , V. La Parola , A. Beardmore , M. Goad , J. P. Osborne , J. E. Hill , L. Angelini , D. N. Burrows , S. Kobayashi , P. Meszaros , B. Zhang , S. D. Barthelmy , L. Barbier , N. E. White , E. E. Fenimore , L. R. Cominsky , N. Gehrels

GRB 050117: Simultaneous Gamma-ray and X-ray Observations with the Swift Satellite

The Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Explorer performed its first autonomous, X-ray follow-up to a newly detected GRB on 2005 January 17, within 193 seconds of the burst trigger by the Swift Burst Alert Telescope. While the burst was still in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 J. E. Hill , D. C. Morris , T. Sakamoto , G. Sato , D. N. Burrows , L. Angelini , C. Pagani , A. Moretti , A. F. Abbey , S. Barthelmy , A. P. Beardmore , V. V. Biryukov , S. Campana , M. Capalbi , G. Cusumano , P. Giommi , M. A. Ibrahimov , J. Kennea , S. Kobayashi , K. Ioka , C. Markwardt , P. Meszaros , P. T. O'Brien , J. P. Osborne , A. S. Pozanenko , M. Perri , V. V. Rumyantsev , P. Shady , D. A. Sharapov , G. Tagliaferri , B. Zhang , G. Chincarini , N. Gehrels , A. Wells , J. A. Nousek

A Reverse-Shock Model for the Early Afterglow of GRB 050525A

The prompt localization of gamma-ray burst (GRB) 050525A by {\em Swift} allowed the rapid follow-up of the afterglow. The observations revealed that the optical afterglow had a major rebrightening starting at $\sim 0.01$ days and ending at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 L. Shao , Z. G. Dai

Extreme Properties Of GRB061007: A Highly Energetic Or A Highly Collimated Burst?

GRB061007 is the brightest gamma-ray burst (GRB) to be detected by Swift and is accompanied by an exceptionally luminous afterglow that had a V-band magnitude <11.1 at 80s after the prompt emission. From the start of the Swift observations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-19 P. Schady , M. De Pasquale , M. J. Page , L. Vetere , S. B. Pandey , X. Y. Wang , J. Cummings , B. Zhang , S. Zane , A. Breeveld , D. N. Burrows , N. Gehrels. C. Gronwall , S. Hunsberger , C. Markwardt , K. O. Mason , P. Meszaros , J. P. Norris , S. R. Oates , C. Pagani , T. S. Poole , P. W. A. Roming , P. J. Smith , D. E. Vanden Berk

The Afterglow of GRB 130427A from 1 to 10^16 GHz

We present multiwavelength observations of the afterglow of GRB 130427A, the brightest (in total fluence) gamma-ray burst of the past 29 years. Optical spectroscopy from Gemini-North reveals the redshift of the GRB to be z=0.340, indicating…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-01-14 D. A. Perley , S. B. Cenko , A. Corsi , N. R. Tanvir , A. J. Levan , D. A. Kann , E. Sonbas , K. Wiersema , W. Zheng , X. -H. Zhao , J. -M. Bai , M. Bremer , A. J. Castro-Tirado , L. Chang , K. I. Clubb , D. Frail , A. Fruchter , E. Göğüş , J. Greiner , T. Güver , A. Horesh , A. V. Filippenko , S. Klose , J. Mao , A. N. Morgan , A. S. Pozanenko , S. Schmidl , B. Stecklum , M. Tanga , A. A. Volnova , A. E. Volvach , J. -G. Wang , J. -M. Winters , Y. -X. Xin

Long-term monitoring of the X-ray afterglow of GRB 050408 with Swift/XRT

We present observations of the X-ray afterglow of GRB 050408, a gamma-ray burst discovered by HETE-II. Swift began observing the field 42 min after the burst, performing follow-up over a period of 38 d (thus spanning three decades in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-19 M. Capalbi , D. Malesani , M. Perri , P. Giommi , S. Covino , G. Cusumano , V. Mangano , T. Mineo , S. Campana , G. Chincarini , V. La Parola , A. Moretti , P. Romano , G. Tagliaferri , L. Angelini , P. Boyd , D. N. Burrows , O. Godet , J. E. Hill , J. A. Kennea , F. Marshall , P. T. O'Brien , N. Gehrels

GRB050223: A faint Gamma-Ray Burst discovered by Swift

GRB050223 was discovered by the Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Explorer on 23 February 2005 and was the first Gamma-Ray Burst to be observed by both Swift and XMM-Newton. At the time of writing (May 2005), it has one of the faintest GRB afterglows…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 K. L. Page , E. Rol , A. J. Levan , B. Zhang , J. P. Osborne , P. T. O'Brien , A. P. Beardmore , D. N. Burrows , S. Campana , G. Chincharini , J. R. Cummings , G. Cusumano , N. Gehrels , P. Giommi , M. R. Goad , O. Godet , V. Mangano , G. Tagliaferri , A. A. Wells

The radio afterglow of the ultra-long GRB 220627A

We present the discovery of the radio afterglow of the most distant ultra-long gamma-ray burst (GRB) detected to date, GRB~220627A at redshift $z=3.084$. Its prompt gamma-ray light curve shows a double-pulse profile, with the pulses…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-04 James K. Leung , Om Sharan Salafia , Cristiana Spingola , Giancarlo Ghirlanda , Stefano Giarratana , Marcello Giroletti , Cormac Reynolds , Ziteng Wang , Tao An , Adam Deller , Maria R. Drout , David L. Kaplan , Emil Lenc , Tara Murphy , Miguel Perez-Torres , Lauren Rhodes

GRB 050509b: the elusive optical/nIR/mm afterglow of a short-duration GRB

We present multiwavelength (optical/near infrared/millimetre) observations of a short duration gamma-ray burst detected by Swift (GRB 050509b) collected between 0 seconds and ~18.8 days after the event. No optical, near infrared or…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. J. Castro-Tirado , A. de Ugarte Postigo , J. Gorosabel , T. Fatkhullin , V. Sokolov , M. Bremer , I. Márquez , A. J. Marin , S. Guziy , M. Jelinek , P. Kubanek , R. Hudec , S. Vitek , T. J. Mateo Sanguino , A. Eigenbrod , M. D. Pérez-Ramírez , A. Sota , J. Masegosa , F. Prada , M. Moles

Panchromatic study of GRB 060124: from precursor to afterglow

We present observations of GRB 060124, the first event for which both the prompt and the afterglow emission could be observed simultaneously and in their entirety by the three Swift instruments and by Konus-Wind. Thanks to these exceptional…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 P. Romano , S. Campana , G. Chincarini , J. Cummings , G. Cusumano , S. T. Holland , V. Mangano , T. Mineo , K. L. Page , V. Pal'shin , E. Rol , T. Sakamoto , B. Zhang , R. Aptekar , S. Barbier , S. Barthelmy , A. P. Beardmore , P. Boyd , D. N. Burrows , M. Capalbi , E. E. Fenimore , D. Frederiks , N. Gehrels , P. Giommi , M. R. Goad , O. Godet , S. Golenetskii , D. Guetta , J. A. Kennea , V. La Parola , D. Malesani , F. Marshall , A. Moretti , J. A. Nousek , P. T. O'Brien , J. P. Osborne , M. Perri , G. Tagliaferri

The Rapidly Fading Afterglow from the Gamma-Ray Burst of 1999 May 6

We report on the discovery of the radio afterglow from the gamma-ray burst (GRB) of 1999 May 6 (GRB 990506) using the Very Large Array (VLA). The radio afterglow was detected at early times (1.5 days), but began to fade rapidly sometime…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 G. B. Taylor , J. S. Bloom , D. A. Frail , S. R. Kulkarni , S. G. Djorgovski , B. A. Jacoby

Optical Afterglow Observations of the Unusual Short-Duration Gamma-Ray Burst 040924

The 1-m telescope at Lulin Observatory and the 0.76-m Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope at Lick Observatory were used to observe the optical afterglow of the short-duration (1.2--1.5 s) gamma-ray burst (GRB) 040924. This object has a soft…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 K. Y. Huang , Y. Urata , A. V. Filippenko , J. H. Hu , W. H. Ip , P. H. Kuo , W. Li , H. C. Lin , Z. Y. Lin , K. Makishima , K. Onda , Y. Qiu , T. Tamagawa

The red optical afterglow of GRB 030725

We present a photometric study of the optical counterpart of the long-duration Gamma Ray Burst (GRB) 030725, which triggered the HETE FREGATE and WXM instruments on July 25th, 2003, and lasted more than 160s. An optical counterpart was…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Pugliese , P. Møller , J. Gorosabel , B. L. Jensen , J. P. U. Fynbo , J. Hjorth , S. F. Jørgensen , B. Monard , C. Vinter

The redshift and afterglow of the extremely energetic gamma-ray burst GRB 080916C

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,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Greiner , C. Clemens , T. Kruehler , A. v. Kienlin , A. Rau , R. Sari , D. B. Fox , N. Kawai , P. Afonso , M. Ajello , E. Berger , S. B. Cenko , A. Cucchiara , R. Filgas , S. Klose , A. Kuepue Yoldas , G. G. Lichti , S. Loew , S. McBreen , T. Nagayama , A. Rossi , S. Sato , G. Szokoly , A. Yoldas , X. -L. Zhang

GRB990123: multiwavelength afterglow study

We report on the BeppoSAX and multiwavelength data analysis of the afterglow of Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) 990123. Mainly due to its exceptional brightness, this is the only source for which the Wide Field Cameras have allowed an early detection…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 E. Maiorano , N. Masetti , E. Palazzi , F. Frontera , P. Grandi , E. Pian , L. Amati , L. Nicastro , P. Soffitta , A. Corsi , L. Piro , L. A. Antonelli , E. Costa , M. Feroci , J. Heise , J. J. M. in 't Zand