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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

We present a new method aimed to handle long Gamma-Ray Burst (GRBs) as cosmic rulers. The recent discovery of a tight correlation between the collimation corrected GRB energy and the peak of the gamma-ray spectrum has opened the possibility…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Firmani , G. Ghisellini , G. Ghirlanda , V. Avila-Reese

We compile 23 Gamma-ray Bursts (GRBs) and 21 blazars with estimated Doppler factors, and the Doppler factors of GRBs are estimated from their Lorentz factors by assuming their jet viewing angles \theta->0 degree. Using the conventional…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Qingwen Wu , Yuan-Chuan Zou , Xinwu Cao , Ding-Xiong Wang , Liang Chen

Two classes of Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), corresponding to the short/hard and the long/soft events, with a putative intermediate class, are typically considered in the observer frame. However, when considering GRB characteristics in the…

We present a comprehensive statistical analysis of Swift X-ray light-curves of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs), with more than 650 GRBs. Two questions drive this effort: (1) Does the X-ray emission retain any kind of memory of the prompt phase? (2)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Raffaella Margutti , E. Zaninoni , M. G. Bernardini , G. Chincarini

We use Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) data from Y. Wang (2008) to put additional constraints on a set of cosmological dark energy models based on the holographic principle. GRBs are among the most complex and energetic astrophysical events known…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-12 Alexander Bonilla Rivera , Jairo Ernesto Castillo Hernandez

The hard X-ray and gamma-ray phenomenology of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) can be explained by an external shock model where a single relativistic blast wave interacts with the surrounding medium. Besides reproducing the generic spectral…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Charles D. Dermer

The little we do know of the physical conditions in gamma-ray bursters makes them conducive to the acceleration of high-energy cosmic rays, especially if they are at cosmological distances. We find that, with the observed statistics and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Mordehai Milgrom , Vladimir Usov

Gamma-ray bursts are the most luminous explosions in the Universe. They appear connected to supernova remnants from massive stars or the merger of their remnants, and their brightness makes them temporarily detectable out to the larges…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-01-22 P. Meszaros , M. J. Rees

The source population of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) declines towards the present epoch being consistent with the measured decline of the star formation rate. We show this using the brightness distribution of 3255 long BATSE GRBs found in an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 B. E. Stern , Ya. Tikhomirova , R. Svensson

Active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are powerful astrophysical events with relativistic jets. In this Letter the broadband spectral properties are compared between GRBs and the well-observed blazars. The distribution…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 F. Y. Wang , S. X. Yi , Z. G. Dai

An important concern in the application of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) to cosmology is that the calibration of GRB luminosity/energy relations depends on the cosmological model, due to the lack of a sufficient low-redshift GRB sample. In this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Nan Liang , Wei Ke Xiao , Yuan Liu , Shuang Nan Zhang

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

Since their first discovery in the late 1960s, Gamma-ray bursts have attracted an exponentially growing interest from the international community due to their central role in the most highly debated open questions of the modern research of…

Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are the brightest objects observed. They are also the most relativistic objects known so far. GRBs occur when an ultrarelativisitic ejecta is slowed down by internal shocks within the flow. Relativistic particles…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Tsvi Piran

The recent discovery that faint gamma-ray bursts are stretched in time relative to bright ones has been interpreted as support for cosmological distances: faint bursts have their durations redshifted relative to bright ones. It was pointed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ralph A. M. J. Wijers , Bohdan Paczyński

Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are fascinating events due to their panchromatic nature. Their afterglow emission is observed from sub-TeV energies to radio wavelengths. We investigate GRBs that present an optical plateau, leveraging on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-06 M. G. Dainotti , S. Livermore , D. A. Kann , L. Li , S. Oates , S. Yi , B. Zhang , B. Gendre , B. Cenko , N. Fraija

Typical observational gamma-ray burst (GRB) spectra are discussed and, in this connection, what is the origin of the compactness problem and how it was solved at first. If the threshold for $e^{-}e^{+}$ pair production depends on an angle…

The use of GRB energetics for cosmography has long been advanced as a means to probe out to high redshifts, to the epoch of deceleration. However, the prompt energy release in GRBs, even when corrected for jetting geometry, is far from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Andrew S. Friedman , Joshua S. Bloom

In the external shock model, gamma-ray burst (GRB) emissions are produced by the energization and deceleration of a thin relativistic blast wave due to its interactions with the circumburst medium (CBM). We study the physical properties of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Charles D. Dermer , Markus Boettcher , J. Chiang