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The emission mechanism during the prompt phase in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) can be investigated through correlations between spectral properties. Here, we revisit the correlation relating the instantaneous flux, $F$, and the photon index…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-16 Felix Ryde , Hoi-Fung Yu , Hüsne Dereli-Bégué , Christoffer Lundman , Asaf Pe'er , Liang Li

The prompt emission mechanism of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is still unclear, and the time-resolved spectral analysis of GRBs is a powerful tool for studying their underlying physical processes. We performed a detailed time-resolved spectral…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-29 Wan-Kai Wang , Wei Xie , Zhi-Fu Gao , Shuo Xiao , Ai-Jun Dong , Bin Zhang , Qi-Jun Zhi

Gamma-ray burst detectors are sensitive at different energies, complicating the comparison of the burst populations that they detect. The instrument teams often report their detector sensitivities in their instruments' energy band. I…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 David L. Band

We develop a new method for simultaneous timing and spectral studies of Gamma Ray Burst (GRB) prompt emission and apply it to make a pulse-wise description of the prompt emission of GRB 090618, the brightest GRB detected in the Fermi era.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Rupal Basak , A. R. Rao

[Abridged] Very recently, relations between the peak energy of Gamma-Ray Burst burst spectra, the isotropic-equivalent energy of the burst, and the radiated energy of the burst have been found. In a way that is exactly analogous to the way…

We use a nearly complete sample of Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) detected by the Swift satellite to study the correlations between the spectral peak energy Ep of the prompt emission, the isotropic energetics Eiso and the isotropic luminosity…

It is known that the soft tail of the gamma-ray bursts' spectra show excesses from the exact power-law dependence. In this article we show that this departure can be detected in the peak flux ratios of different BATSE DISCSC energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Z. Bagoly , I. Csabai , A. Mészáros , P. Mészáros , I. Horváth , L. G. Balázs , R. Vavrek

Thanks to more and more gamma-ray bursts with measured redshift and extended emission detected by the recent space telescopes, it is urgent and possible to check whether those previous energy correlations still satisfy for the particular…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-30 X. L. Zhang , C. T. Zhang , X. J. Li , F. F. S , X. F. Dong , H. Y. Chang , Z. B. Zhang

Compact binary system mergers are expected to generate gravitational radiation detectable by ground-based interferometers. A subset of these, the merger of a neutron star with another neutron star or a black hole, are also the most popular…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-17 Eric Burns , Valerie Connaughton , Bin-Bin Zhang , Amy Lien , Michael S. Briggs , Adam Goldstein , Veronique Pelassa , Eleonora Troja

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Gamma-ray Observatory is an extensive air shower detector operating in central Mexico, which has recently completed its first two years of full operations. If for a burst like GRB 130427A at a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-07 The HAWC collaboration , R. Alfaro , C. Alvarez , J. D. Álvarez , R. Arceo , J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez , D. Avila Rojas , H. A. Ayala Solares , A. S. Barber , N. Bautista-Elivar , A. Becerril , E. Belmont-Moreno , S. Y. BenZvi , A. Bernal , J. Braun , C. Brisbois , K. S. Caballero-Mora , T. Capistrán , A. Carramiñana , S. Casanova , M. Castillo , U. Cotti , J. Cotzomi , S. Coutiño de León , E. de la Fuente , C. De León , T. DeYoung , R. Diaz Hernandez , B. L. Dingus , M. A. DuVernois , J. C. Díaz-Vélez , R. W. Ellsworth , K. Engel , D. W. Fiorino , N. Fraija , J. A. García-González , F. Garfias , M. Gerhardt , A. González Muñoz , M. M. González , J. A. Goodman , Z. Hampel-Arias , J. P. Harding , A. Hernandez-Almada , S. Hernandez , B. Hona , C. M. Hui , P. Hüntemeyer , A. Iriarte , A. Jardin-Blicq , V. Joshi , S. Kaufmann , D. Kieda , R. J. Lauer , W. H. Lee , D. Lennarz , H. León Vargas , J. T. Linnemann , A. L. Longinotti , G. Luis Raya , R. Luna-García , K. Malone , S. S. Marinelli , O. Martinez , I. Martinez-Castellanos , J. Martínez-Castro , H. Martínez-Huerta , J. A. Matthews , P. Miranda-Romagnoli , E. Moreno , M. Mostafá , L. Nellen , M. Newbold , R. Noriega-Papaqui , R. Pelayo , E. G. Pérez-Pérez , J. Pretz , Z. Ren , C. D. Rho , C. Rivière , D. Rosa-González , M. Rosenberg , E. Ruiz-Velasco , H. Salazar , F. Salesa Greus , A. Sandoval , M. Schneider , H. Schoorlemmer , G. Sinnis , A. J. Smith , R. W. Springer , P. Surajbali , I. Taboada , O. Tibolla , K. Tollefson , I. Torres , T. N. Ukwatta , G. Vianello , T. Weisgarber , S. Westerhoff , J. Wood , T. Yapici , P. W. Younk , A. Zepeda , H. Zhou

It is often stated that gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have typical energies of several hundred keV. Is this a real feature of GRBs or is it due to an observational bias? We consider the possibility that bursts of a given bolometric luminosity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Tsvi Piran , Ramesh Narayan

The correlation between the photon energy at which the redshift corrected nFn spectrum peaks (hence called "peak energy", Ep,i) and the isotropic equivalent radiated energy (Eiso), is one of the most intriguing and debated observational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Lorenzo Amati

We study in details how the pulse width of gamma-ray bursts is related with energy under the assumption that the sources concerned are in the stage of fireballs. Due to the Doppler effect of fireballs, there exists a power law relationship…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Y. -P. Qin , Y. -M. Dong , R. -J. Lu , B. -B. Zhang , L. -W. Jia

A model is presented here that is capable of simultaneously describing the luminosity function and the underlying joint population distribution of the prompt spectral and temporal parameters of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs), subject to the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-05 Amir Shahmoradi

The cosmological expansion cannot produce the reported correlations of the gamma-ray burst timescale and spectral energy with peak flux if the burst model reproduces the BATSE 3B peak-flux distribution for a non-evolving burst source…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 J. J. Brainerd

Gamma-ray Bursts (GRB) were discovered by satellite-based detectors as powerful sources of transient $\gamma$-ray emission. The Fermi satellite detected an increasing number of these events with its dedicated Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM),…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-29 G. La Mura , U. Barres de Almeida , R. Conceição , A. De Angelis , F. Longo , M. Pimenta , E. Prandini , E. Ruiz-Velasco , B. Tomé

X-ray flares of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are usually observed in the soft X-ray range and the spectral coverage is limited. In this paper, we present an analysis of 32 GRB X-ray flares that are simultaneously observed by both BAT and XRT on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Fang-Kun Peng , En-Wei Liang , Xiang-Yu Wang , Shu-Jin Hou , Shao-Qiang Xi , Rui-Jing Lu , Jin Zhang , Bing Zhang

For over two decades, gamma-ray burst (GRB) prompt emission spectra were modelled with smoothly-broken power laws (Band function), and a positive and tight correlation between the spectral rest-frame peak energy $E_p$ and the total…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-16 Alessio Mei , Gor Oganesyan , Samanta Macera

It has been established that Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRB) can produce Very High Energy radiation (E > 100 GeV), opening a new window on the investigation of particle acceleration and radiation properties in the most energetic domain. We expect…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-03 G. La Mura

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