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The origin of prompt emission from gamma ray bursts remains to be an open question. Correlated prompt optical and gamma-ray emission observed in a handful of GRBs strongly suggests a common emission region, but failure to adequately fit the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-21 S. Guiriec , C. Kouveliotou , D. H. Hartmann , J. Granot , K. Asano , P. Meszaros , R. Gill , N. Gehrels , J. McEnery

The recent discoveries of X-ray and optical counterparts for GRBs, and a possible discovery of a host galaxy, implies that a direct measurement of the red-shift of some GRBs host galaxies is eminent. We discuss the implications of such…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Ehud Cohen , Tsvi Piran

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most luminous astrophysical events observed so far. They are conventionally classified into long and short ones depending on their time duration, $T_{90}$. Because of the advantage their high redshifts offer,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Shi Qi , Tan Lu

In this paper we consider the use of Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) as distance markers to study the unification of dark energy and dark matter in the context of the so-called Generalized Chaplygin Gas (GCG) model. We consider that the GRB…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 O. Bertolami , P. T. Silva

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are a promising probe of the high-redshift Universe, but their detection remains observationally challenging. In this work, we explore the detectability of high-$z$ GRBs by the Wide-field X-ray Telescope (WXT) aboard…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-21 Jun-Jie Wei , Xue-Feng Wu

Due to their highly luminous nature, gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are useful tools in studying the early Universe (up to z = 10). We consider whether the available subset of Swift high redshift GRBs are unusual when compared to analogous…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-08-27 O. M. Littlejohns , N. R. Tanvir , R. Willingale , P. T. O'Brien , P. A. Evans , A. J. Levan

The availability of a few dozen GRB redshifts now allows studies of the intrinsic properties of these high energy transients. Amati et al. recently discovered a correlation between Epeak, the intrinsic peak energy of the $\nu f \nu$…

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are characterised by a strong correlation between the instantaneous luminosity and the spectral peak energy within a burst. This correlation, which is known as the hardness-intensity correlation or the Golenetskii…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 J. Michael Burgess

We collect and reanalyze about 200 GRB data of prompt-emission with known redshift observed until the end of 2009, and select 101 GRBs which were well observed to have good spectral parameters to determine the spectral peak energy ($E_p$),…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Daisuke Yonetoku , Toshio Murakami , Ryo Tsutsui , Takashi Nakamura , Yoshiyuki Morihara , Keitaro Takahashi

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), observed to redshift $z=9.4$, are potential probes of the largely unexplored $z\sim 2.7-9.4$ part of the early Universe. Thus, finding relevant relations among GRB physical properties is crucial. We find that the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-09 Shulei Cao , Maria Dainotti , Bharat Ratra

Several luminosity indicators have been found for Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) wherein measurable light curve and spectral properties are well-correlated with the peak luminosity. Several papers have each applied one different luminosity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Teresa Ashcraft , Bradley E. Schaefer

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are intense pulses of high-energy emission associated with massive stars' death or compact objects' coalescence. Their multi-wavelength observations help verify the reliability of the standard fireball model. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-19 M. G. Dainotti , S. Bhardwaj , E. Bissaldi , N. Fraija , S. Sourav , A. Galvan-Gamez

The determination of luminosity function (LF) of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is of an important role for the cosmological applications of the GRBs, which is however hindered seriously by some selection effects due to redshift measurements. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-10-17 Wei-Wei Tan , Xiao-Feng Cao , Yun-Wei Yu

Recently, both theoretical arguments and observational evidence suggested that a small fraction of fast radio bursts (FRBs) could be associated with gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). If such FRB/GRB association systems are commonly detected in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 He Gao , Zhuo Li , Bing Zhang

The nature of Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) remains a complete mystery, despite the recent breakthrough discovery of low energy counterparts, although it is now generally believed that at least most GRBs are at cosmological distances. Virtually…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Bradley E. Schaefer

We exploit the 14 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) with known redshifts $z$ and the 7 GRBs for which there are constraints on $z$ to determine the GRB rate $R_{\rm GRB}(z)$, using a method based on Bayesian inference. We find that, despite the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Nevin Weinberg , Carlo Graziani , Donald Q. Lamb

We study the dark energy equation of state as a function of redshift in a non-parametric way, without imposing any {\it a priori} $w(z)$ (ratio of pressure over energy density) functional form. As a check of the method, we test our scheme…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-05 Sergey Postnikov , Maria Giovanna Dainotti , Xavier Hernandez , Salvatore Capozziello

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are detectable out to very large distances and as such are potentially powerful cosmological probes. Historically, the angular distribution of GRBs provided important information about their origin and physical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-11-11 T. N. Ukwatta , P. R. Wozniak

In this paper, we compile a \emph{Fermi} sample of the \emph{long} GRB observations from 15 years of GBM catalogue with identified redshift, in which the GOLD sample contains 123 long GRBs at $z\le5.6$ and the FULL sample contains 151 long…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-04 Huifeng Wang , Nan Liang

Observations of gamma-ray bursts up to $z\sim 9$ are best suited to study the possible evolution of the Universe equation of state at intermediate redshifts. We apply the Combo-relation to a sample of 174 gamma ray bursts to investigate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-03 M. Muccino , L. Izzo , O. Luongo , K. Boshkayev , L. Amati , M. Della Valle , G. B. Pisani , E. Zaninoni