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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

Standard candles are one of the most important tools to study the universe. In this paper, the constraints of standards candles on the cosmological parameters are estimated for different cases. The dependence of the constraints on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-25 Shi Qi

Using gamma-ray bursts as standard candles for cosmological parameter constraints rely on their empirical luminosity relations and low-redshift calibration. In this paper, we examine the Amati relation and its potential corrections based on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-04 Yufen Han , Jiaze Gao , Gang Liu , Lixin Xu

Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) are the most energetic sources in the universe and among the farthest known astrophysical sources. These features make them appealing candidates as standard candles for cosmological applications so that studying the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-03-28 M. G. Dainotti , V. F. Cardone , S. Capozziello , M. Ostrowski , R. Willingale

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are a potential tool to probe high-redshift universe. However, the circularity problem enforces people to find model-independent methods to study the luminosity correlations of GRBs. Here, we present a new method…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-06 Yu-Yang Wang , F. Y. Wang

In order to test the efficacy of Gamma-ray Bursts (GRB) as cosmological probes, we characterize the scatter in the correlations between six pairs of GRB observables, which have previously also been studied in arXiv:2011.14040. However, some…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-28 Sarveshkumar Purohit , Shantanu Desai

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are among the most powerful sources in the universe. In the recent years, GRBs have been proposed as a complementary probe to type Ia supernovae (SNIa). However, as is well known, there is a circularity problem in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-10 Jing Liu , Hao Wei

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 actual knowledge of the structure and future evolution of our universe is based on the use of cosmological models, which can be tested through the so-called 'probes', namely astrophysical phenomena, objects or structures with peculiar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-27 Biagio De Simone , Via Nielson , Enrico Rinaldi , Maria Giovanna Dainotti

The $\Lambda$ Cold Dark Matter ($\Lambda$CDM) cosmological model has been highly successful in predicting cosmic structure and evolution, yet recent precision measurements have highlighted discrepancies, especially in the Hubble constant…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-08 Purba Mukherjee , Maria Giovanna Dainotti , Konstantinos F. Dialektopoulos , Jackson Levi Said , Jurgen Mifsud

Context. Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) reach redshifts beyond Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) and can extend distance measurements into the early Universe, but their use as distance indicators is limited by the circularity problem in calibrating…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-19 Wei Hong , Luca Izzo , Massimo Della Valle , Orlando Luongo , Marco Muccino , Tong-Jie Zhang

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

In this work, our focus is on exploring the potential of current GRB measurements to provide reliable constraints on cosmological model parameters at high redshift. This work is divided into two parts. First, we calibrate the Amati relation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-10 Darshan Kumar , Nisha Rani , Deepak Jain , Shobhit Mahajan , Amitabha Mukherjee

For the use of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) to probe cosmology in a cosmology-independent way, a new method has been proposed to obtain luminosity distances of GRBs by interpolating directly from the Hubble diagram of SNe Ia, and then…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 He Gao , Nan Liang , Zong-Hong Zhu

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) being the most luminous among known cosmic objects carry an essential potential for cosmological studies if properly used as standard candles. In this paper we test with GRBs the cosmological predictions of the…

We report estimates of the cosmological parameters $\Omega_m$ and $\Omega_{\Lambda}$ obtained using supernovae (SNe) associated with gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) at redshifts up to 0.606. Eight high-fidelity GRB-SNe with well-sampled light…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Xue Li , Jens Hjorth , Radosław Wojtak

We present a multi-variable regression analysis to several observable quantities for a sample of 15 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). The observables used in the analysis includes the isotropic gamma-ray energy (E_{gamma,iso}), the peak energy of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Enwei Liang , Bing Zhang

The variability of gamma-ray burst (GRB) is thought to be correlated with its absolute peak luminosity, and this relation had been used to derive an estimate of the redshifts of GRBs. Recently Amati et al. presented the results of spectral…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. M. Wei , W. H. Gao

For gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) with a plateau phase in the X-ray afterglow, a so called $L-T-E$ correlation has been found which tightly connects the isotropic energy of the prompt GRB ($E_{\gamma,\rm{iso}}$) with the end time of the X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-26 Fan Xu , Chen-Han Tang , Jin-Jun Geng , Fa-Yin Wang , Yu-Yang Wang , Abudushataer Kuerban , Yong-Feng Huang

The 2002 discovery of the "Amati Relation" of GRB spectra created the possibility that this and other correlations of GRB phenomenology might be used to make GRBs into standard candles. One recurring apparent difficulty with this program…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-08-16 Carlo Graziani