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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

Due to the lack of low redshift long Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs), the circular problem has been a severe obstacle for using GRBs as cosmological candles. In this paper, we present a new method to deal with such a problem in MCMC global fitting…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 Hong Li , Jun-Qing Xia , Jie Liu , Gong-Bo Zhao , Zu-Hui Fan , Xinmin Zhang

Several correlations among Gamma Ray Burst (GRB) observables with available redshifts have been recently identified. Proper evaluation and calibration of these correlations may facilitate the use of GRBs as standard candles constraining the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-19 S. Basilakos , L. Perivolaropoulos

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are among the most luminous electromagnetic transients in the universe, providing unique insights into extreme astrophysical processes and serving as promising probes for cosmology. Unlike Type Ia supernovae, which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-28 Chen Deng , Yong-Feng Huang , Fan Xu , Abdusattar Kurban

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are widely proposed as an effective probe to trace the Hubble diagram of the Universe in high redshift range. However, the calibration of GRBs is not as easy as that of type-Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). Most calibrating…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-21 Hai-Nan Lin , Xin Li , Sai Wang , Zhe Chang

Apparently, Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are all but standard candles. Their emission is collimated into a cone and the received flux depends on the cone aperture angle. Fortunately we can derive the aperture angle through an achromatic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 G. Ghisellini , G. Ghirlanda , C. Firmani , D. Lazzati , V. Avila-Reese , .

The mechanism responsible for the prompt emission of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is still a debated issue. The prompt phase-related GRB correlations can allow to discriminate among the most plausible theoretical models explaining this emission.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-01 Maria Dainotti , Roberta Del Vecchio , Mariusz Tarnopolski

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have long been proposed as a complementary probe to type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) and cosmic microwave background to explore the expansion history of the high-redshift universe, mainly because they are bright enough to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-11 Yan Dai , Xiao-Gang Zheng , Zheng-Xiang Li , He Gao , Zong-Hong Zhu

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) offer a powerful probe of the cosmic expansion history far beyond the redshift range accessible to Type Ia supernovae. However, the study of cosmological models using GRBs is hindered by the circularity problem,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-11 Nilanjana Bagchi Aurpa , Abha Dev Habib , Nisha Rani

Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) are among the most powerful sources in the Universe: they emit up to 10^54 erg in the hard X-ray band in few tens of seconds. The cosmological origin of GRBs has been confirmed by several spectroscopic measurements…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-19 G. Ghirlanda , G. Ghisellini , C. Firmani

The prompt emission mechanism of gamma-ray bursts (GRB) even after several decades remains a mystery. However, it is believed that correlations between observable GRB properties given their huge luminosity/radiated energy and redshift…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-25 Maria Dainotti

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

Long duration Gamma-Ray Bursts (LGRBs) may serve as standard candles to constrain cosmological parameters by probing the Hubble diagram well beyond the range of redshift currently accessible using type-Ia supernovae. The standardization of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-12-30 F. Fana Dirirsa , S. Razzaque , F. Piron , M. Arimoto , M. Axelsson , D. Kocevski , F. Longo , M. Ohno , S. Zhu

By dividing a sample of 48 long-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) into four groups with redshift from low to high and fitting each group with the Amati relation log Eiso = a + b log Epeak, I find that parameters a and b vary with the mean…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-31 Li-Xin Li

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

GRB satellites are relatively inefficient detectors of dim hard bursts because they trigger on photon counts, which are number-biased against hard photons. Therefore, for example, given two bursts of identical peak luminosity near the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-11-07 A. Shahmoradi , R. J. Nemiroff

Empirical correlations between various key parameters have been extensively explored ever since the discovery of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and have been widely used as standard candles to probe the Universe. The Amati relation and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-03 Fan Xu , Yong-Feng Huang , Jin-Jun Geng , Xue-Feng Wu , Xiu-Juan Li , Zhi-Bin Zhang

Following our previous work, we conclude that a GRB standard candle constructed from the Ghirlanda et al. power-law relation between the geometry-corrected energy (E_gamma) and the peak of the rest-frame prompt burst spectrum (E_p) is not…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 Andrew S. Friedman , Joshua S. Bloom

The determination of distances is highly constrained to a small number of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) because it requires observations at different wavelengths. Some empirical functions to estimate redshifts have been identified using…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-04 J. Rodrigo Sacahui , M. Antonio Morales , M. Magdalena González

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
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