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Several interesting correlations among Gamma Ray Bursts (GRB) prompt and afterglow properties have been found in the recent years. Some of these correlations have been proposed also to standardize GRB energetics to use them as standard…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-03 G. Ghirlanda

The energetics and emission mechanism of GRBs are not well understood. Here we demonstrate that the instantaneous peak flux or equivalent isotropic peak luminosity, L_iso ergs s^-1, rather than the integrated fluence or equivalent isotropic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-10-22 R. Willingale , P. T. O'Brien , M. R. Goad , J. P. Osborne , K. L. Page , N. R. Tanvir

In this work, we use angular diameter distances of 38 galaxy clusters with joint X-ray/SZE observation to circumvent the circularity problem in the Amati relation for Gamma-ray Bursts (GRBs). Assuming the validity of cosmic-distance duality…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-24 Gowri Govindaraj , Shantanu Desai

As one of the most energetic and brightest events, gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) can be treated as a promising probe of the high-redshift universe. Similar to type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia), GRBs with same physical origin could be treated as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-09 Jia-Lun Li , Yu-Peng Yang , Shuang-Xi Yi , Jian-Ping Hu , Fa-Yin Wang , Yan-Kun Qu

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are extremely high-energy events that can be observed at very high redshift. In addition to gamma rays, they can emit in X-ray, optical, and sometimes radio wavelengths. Here, following the approach in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-07 M. G. Dainotti , D. Levine , D. Warren , N. Fraija , S. Sourav

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

In this paper, we continue to build support for the proposal to use gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) as standard candles in constructing the Hubble Diagram at redshifts beyond the current reach of Type Ia supernova observations. We confirm that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Jun-Jie Wei , Xue-Feng Wu , Fulvio Melia

Luminosity correlations of long Gamma-ray bursts (GRB) are extensively proposed as an effective complementarity to trace the Hubble diagram of Universe at high redshifts, which is of great importance to explore properties of dark energy.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-22 Guo-Jian Wang , Hai Yu , Zheng-Xiang Li , Jun-Qing Xia , Zong-Hong Zhu

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

As one of the most energetic and brightest events, gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have been used as a standard candle for cosmological probe. Based on the relevant features of GRBs light curves, a plateau phase followed a decay phase, we obtain…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-18 Jia-Lun Li , Yu-Peng Yang , Shuang-Xi Yi , Jian-Ping Hu , Yan-Kun Qu , Fa-Yin Wang

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are cosmological explosions which carry valuable information from the distant past of the expanding universe. One of the greatest discoveries in modern cosmology is the finding of the accelerated expansion of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-15 Rupal Basak , A. R. Rao

Long duration Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) have eight luminosity relations where observable burst properties can yield the burst luminosity and hence distance. This turns GRBs into useful tools of cosmology. Recently, two tests have been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Bradley E. Schaefer , Andrew C. Collazzi

The correlations involving the long-GRB prompt emission energy represent a new key to understand the GRB physics. These correlations have been proved to be the tool which makes long-GRBs a new class of standard candles. Gamma Ray Bursts,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Ghirlanda

Using an \emph{empirical} description of a prompt GRB pulse, we analyze the individual pulses of all Fermi/GBM GRBs with known redshifts, till July 2009. This description is simultaneous in time and energy and allows one to determine the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-07-10 Rupal Basak , A. R. Rao

The correlation between the peak spectra energy ($E_p$) and the equivalent isotropic energy ($E_{\rm iso}$) of long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), the so-called Amati relation, is often used to constrain the high-redshift Hubble diagram. Assuming…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-16 Lu Huang , Zhiqi Huang , Xiaolin Luo , Xinbo He , Yuhong Fang

We present a new analysis of cosmic dipole anisotropy using gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) as high-redshift standardizable candles. GRBs are ideal probes for testing the cosmological principle thanks to their high luminosity, wide redshift range,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-25 Jessica Santiago , Kerkyra Asvesta , Maria Giovanna Dainotti , Pisin Chen

As soon as it was realized that long GRBs lie at cosmological distances, attempts have been made to use them as cosmological probes. Besides their use as lighthouses, a task that presents mainly the technological challenge of a rapid deep…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 D. Lazzati , G. Ghirlanda , G. Ghisellini , L. Nava , C. Firmani , Brian Morsony , M. C. Begelman

We here propose a new model-independent technique to overcome the circularity problem affecting the use of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) as distance indicators through the use of $E_{\rm p}$--$E_{\rm iso}$ correlation. We calibrate the $E_{\rm…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-27 Lorenzo Amati , Rocco D'Agostino , Orlando Luongo , Marco Muccino , Maria Tantalo

We present a sample of 74 Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) from the Fermi-GBM catalogue for which we compute the distance moduli and use them to constrain effective dark energy models. To overcome the circularity problem affecting GRBs as distance…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-01 Ariadna Montiel , J. I. Cabrera , Juan Carlos Hidalgo

By using gamma-ray burst (GRB) data to simultaneously constrain Amati correlation parameters and cosmological parameters in six spatially-flat and nonflat dark energy cosmological models, we show that an updated 220 GRB version of the Jia…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-28 Shulei Cao , Bharat Ratra