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We predict the redshift of the first observable (i.e., in our past light cone) Gamma Ray Burst (GRB) and calculate the GRB-rate redshift distribution of the Population III stars at very early times (z=20-60). Using the last 2 years of data…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Smadar Naoz , Omer Bromberg

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are bright flashes of electromagnetic radiation originating from the core collapse of massive stars or the merger of compact objects. It has long been theorized that GRBs can emit very high-energy (VHE) gamma rays…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-12 Halim Ashkar , Stephen Fegan , Aurélie Sangaré

We have established a GRB follow-up observation system at Kiso observatory (Japan) in 2001. Since the east Asian area had been blank for the GRB follow-up observational network, this observational system is very important in studying the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 Y. Urata , Y. Nakada , T. Miyata , T. Aoki , T. Soyano , K. Tarusawa , H. Mito , S. Nishiura , T. Tamagawa , K. Makishima

We present the second Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) catalog of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), which contains 476 bursts detected by the BAT between 2004 December 19 and 2009 December 21. This catalog (hereafter the BAT2 catalog) presents…

Although more than 2000 astronomical gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have been detected, the precise progenitor responsible for these events is unknown. The temporal phenomenology observed in GRBs can significantly constrain the different models.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz , Andrea Merloni

We introduce the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) rapid-response mode by presenting the first successful trigger on the short-duration gamma-ray burst (GRB) 181123B. Early-time radio observations of short GRBs may provide vital…

Only one optical flash associated with a gamma-ray burst has been detected so far by ROTSE. There are also upper limits obtained by several groups for several bursts. Recent model calculations indicate a possibility that optical flash may…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Bohdan Paczynski

In this paper, we study the possibility of detection of short term terrestrial lower ionospheric response to gamma ray bursts (GRBs) using a statistical analysis of perturbations of six very low or low frequency (VLF/LF) radio signals…

Space Physics · Physics 2018-02-01 Aleksandra Nina , Saša Simić , Vladimir A. Srećković , Luka Č. Popović

Gamma rays at rest frame energies as high as 90 GeV have been reported from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). There is considerable hope that a confirmed GRB detection will be possible with the upcoming…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Rudy C. Gilmore , Aurelien Bouvier , Valerie Connaughton , Adam Goldstein , Nepomuk Otte , Joel R. Primack , David A. Williams

We present results of an analysis of a sample of bright Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) detected by Fermi-GBM up to more than 1 MeV, which were collected during six years of Fermi operations. In particular, we focus on the GRB durations over…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Elisabetta Bissaldi , Enrico Peretti , Francesco Longo

Observationally, there is a small fraction of Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) with prompt emission observed by Fermi/GBM that are composed of two pulses. Occasionally, the distance to a GRB may be lensed when a high mass astrophysical object…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-17 Xing Yang , Hou-Jun Lü , Hao-Yu Yuan , Jared Rice , Zhao Zhang , Bin-Bin Zhang , En-Wei Liang

Observations of gamma ray bursts (GRBs) with Swift produced the initially surprising result that many bursts have large X-ray flares superimposed on the underlying afterglow. These flares were sometimes intense, rapid, and late relative to…

Nearly 700 fast radio burst (FRB) sources have been detected till now, among which 29 FRBs are found to burst out repeatedly. Although a firm connection between at least some FRBs and magnetars has been established, the trigger mechanism…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-31 Chen-Ran Hu , Yong-Feng Huang

We present the first systematic investigation of the morphological and timing properties of flares in GRBs observed by Swift/XRT. We consider a large sample drawn from all GRBs detected by Swift, INTEGRAL and HETE-2 prior to 2006 Jan 31,…

We present a detailed evaluation of the expected rate of joint gravitational-wave and short gamma-ray burst (GRB) observations over the coming years. We begin by evaluating the improvement in distance sensitivity of the gravitational wave…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-14 J. Clark , H. Evans , S. Fairhurst , I. W. Harry , E. Macdonald , D. Macleod , P. J. Sutton , A. R. Williamson

Spectral lags are deduced for 1437 long GRBs with peak fluxes extending to near the BATSE trigger threshold. The lags are modeled to approximate the observed distribution in the peak flux-lag plane, realizing a noise-free representation.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jay P. Norris

We present the results of an analysis of the prompt gamma-ray emission from GRB 090618 using the RT-2 Experiment onboard the Coronas-Photon satellite. GRB 090618 shows multiple peaks and a detailed study of the temporal structure as a…

We investigated how Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) prompt emission measurements are affected by increasing distance to the source. We selected a sample of 26 bright GRBs with measured redshifts $z<1$ observed by the Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-04 Michael J. Moss , Amy Y. Lien , S. Bradley Cenko , Sylvain Guiriec , Craig B. Markwardt

The Liverpool Telescope, situated at Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, La Palma, Canaries, is the first 2-m, fully instrumented robotic telescope. It recently began observations. Among Liverpool Telescope's primary scientific goals is to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Gomboc , M. F. Bode , D. Carter , C. G. Mundell , A. M. Newsam , R. J. Smith , I. A. Steele

To draw inferences about gamma-ray burst (GRB) source populations based on Swift observations, it is essential to understand the detection efficiency of the Swift burst alert telescope (BAT). This study considers the problem of modeling the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-10 Philip B Graff , Amy Y Lien , John G Baker , Takanori Sakamoto