English
Related papers

Related papers: Long-duration gamma-ray emissions from 2007 and 20…

200 papers

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) divide into two classes: "long", which typically have initial durations of T90>2s, and "short", with durations of T90<2s (where T90 is the time to detect 90% of the observed fluence). Long bursts, which on average…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-16 N. R. Tanvir , R. Chapman , A. J. Levan , R. S. Priddey

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

The first detection of a binary neutron star merger, GW170817, and an associated short gamma-ray burst confirmed that neutron star mergers are responsible for at least some of these bursts. The prompt gamma ray emission from these events is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-11 Daniel Williams , James A. Clark , Andrew R. Williamson , Ik Siong Heng

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the universe's most energetic phenomena (isotropic luminosity $\sim 10^{51} - 10^{54}$ ergs/s) lasting for a very short duration ($\sim$ milliseconds - a few seconds). Even after an average of one GRB detected…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-13 Soumya Gupta , Sunder Sahayanathan , Saharsh Shanu , Rishabh Nath

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) aboard the $Fermi$ spacecraft routinely observes high-energy emission from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Here we present the second catalog of LAT-detected GRBs, covering the first 10 years of operations, from 2008…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-28 M. Axelsson , E. Bissaldi , N. Omodei , G. Vianello

Relativistic runaway electron avalanches (RREAs) imply a large multiplication of high energy electrons (~1 MeV). Two factors are necessary for this phenomenon: a high electric field sustained over a large distance and an energetic particle…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2021-02-01 Gabriel Sousa Diniz , Ivan Soares Ferreira , Yuuki Wada , Teruaki Enoto

The Fermi observatory is advancing our knowledge of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) through pioneering observations at high energies, covering more than 7 decades in energy with the two on-board detectors, the Large Area Telescope (LAT) and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-07-21 Fermi-LAT , Fermi-GBM Collaborations

The origin of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) has been enigmatic since their discovery. The situation improved dramatically in 1997, when the rapid availability of precise coordinates for the bursts allowed the detection of faint optical and radio…

The Telescope Array (TA) of central Utah was designed to detect ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) and is the largest of its kind in the Northern hemisphere. Its capabilities, however, are not limited to extra-terrestrial sources.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-11 Jackson Remington

Since the launch of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope on June 11, 2008, 55 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have been observed at coordinates that fall within 66^\circ of the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) boresight with precise localizations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 C. W. Akerlof , W. Zheng , S. B. Pandey , T. A. McKay

Lightning in the solar nebula is considered to be one of the probable sources for producing the chondrules that are found in meteorites. Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) provide a large flux of gamma-rays that Compton scatter and create a charge…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 B. McBreen , E. Winston , S. McBreen , L. Hanlon

Proceeding from a stormy day of 22 September 2022, when 7 thunderstorm ground enhancements occurred (TGEs, 3 of them very large), we perform an analysis of the most important conditions, on which depend the origination of the large particle…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2023-05-24 A. Chilingarian , G. Hosepyan , T. Karapetyan , B. Sargsyan

In its first 2 years of operation, the ground-based Terrestrial gamma ray flash and Energetic Thunderstorm Rooftop Array(TETRA)-II array of gamma ray detectors has recorded 22 bursts of gamma rays of millisecond-scale duration associated…

Gamma-ray bursts are still not fully understood events. However, their exploration could provide a useful tool for a better understanding of the early Universe because they belong to the most distant and violent objects that astronomers…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-05-13 Jakub Ripa

In this catalog, we present the results of a systematic study of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) with reliable redshift estimates detected in the triggered mode of the Konus-Wind (KW) experiment during the period from 1997 February to 2016 June.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-30 A. Tsvetkova , D. Frederiks , S. Golenetskii , A. Lysenko , P. Oleynik , V. Pal'shin , D. Svinkin , M. Ulanov , T. Cline , K. Hurley , R. Aptekar

We present the results of a LIGO search for short-duration gravitational waves (GW) associated with soft gamma repeater (SGR) bursts. This is the first GW search sensitive to neutron star f-modes, usually considered the most efficient GW…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-04-29 Peter Kalmus

This paper presents a study on the spectral evolution of gamma-ray burst (GRB) prompt emissions observed with the Suzaku Wide-band All-sky Monitor (WAM). By making use of the WAM data archive, 6 bright GRBs exhibiting 7 well-separated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Makoto S. Tashiro , Kaori Onda , Kazutaka Yamaoka , Masahiro Ohno , Satoshi Sugita , Takeshi Uehara , Hiromi Seta

The recent coincident detection of gravitational waves (GW) from a binary neutron star merger with aLIGO/Virgo and short-lived gamma-ray emission with Fermi/GBM (called GW 170817) is a milestone for the establishment of multi-messenger…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-17 J. Michael Burgess , Jochen Greiner , Damien Begue , Dimitrios Giannios , Francesco Berlato , Vladimir M. Lipunov

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most energetic explosions in the universe, and their afterglow emission provides an opportunity to probe the physics of relativistic shock waves in an extreme environment. Several key pieces for completing…

In the Second part of The Konus-Wind Catalog of Gamma-Ray Bursts with Known Redshifts (first part: Tsvetkova et al. 2017; T17), we present the results of a systematic study of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) with reliable redshift estimates…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-19 A. Tsvetkova , D. Frederiks , D. Svinkin , R. Aptekar , T. L. Cline , S. Golenetskii , K. Hurley , A. Lysenko , A. Ridnaia , M. Ulanov
‹ Prev 1 3 4 5 6 7 10 Next ›