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Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are traditionally classified into long (lGRBs) and short (sGRBs) durations based on their $T_{90}$, with lGRBs widely used as tracers of the cosmic star formation rate (SFR) due to their observed association with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-15 Qin-Mei Li , Qi-Bin Sun , Sheng-Bang Qian , Fu-Xing Li

We argue that the recent groundbreaking discovery by Badenes et al. (2009) of a nearby (~50 pc) white dwarf-neutron star (or black hole) binary (SDSS 1257+5428) with a merger timescale ~500 Myr implies that such systems are common; we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-12-02 Todd A. Thompson , Matthew D. Kistler , K. Z. Stanek

Neutron star binaries, such as the one observed in the famous binary pulsar PSR 1916+13, end their life in a catastrophic merge event (denoted here NS$^2$M). The merger releases $\approx 5 \cdot 10^{53}$ergs, mostly as neutrinos and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Tsvi Piran

In this letter we suggest a scenario for simultaneous emission of gravitational-wave and $\gamma$-ray bursts (GRBs) from soft gamma-ray repeaters (SGRs). we argue that both of the radiations can be generated by a super-Eddington accreting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-05-24 H. J. Mosquera Cuesta , J. C. N. de Araujo , O. D. Aguiar , J. E. Horvath

We analyze here late evolutionary stages of massive (with initial mass higher than 8 masses of the Sun) close binary stars. Our purposes are to study possible mechanisms of gamma ray bursts (GRBs) origin. We suppose in this paper that GRB…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-19 A. I. Bogomazov , V. M. Lipunov , A. V. Tutukov

Short Gamma-Ray Bursts (SGRBs) are expected to form from the coalescence of compact binaries, either of primordial origin or from dynamical interactions in globular clusters. In this paper, we investigate the possibility that the offset and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 R. Salvaterra , B. Devecchi , M. Colpi , P. D'Avanzo

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have been phenomenologically classified into long and short populations based on the observed bimodal distribution of duration. Multi-wavelength and multi-messenger observations in recent years have revealed that in…

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 first multimessenger discovery of a binary neutron star (BNS) merger, GW170817, proved that such mergers can source short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs) and produce \rprocess elements. The initial merger rate from this single event in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-08 Maya Fishbach , Alexander P. Ji , Wen-fai Fong , Tom Y. Wu , Jillian C. Rastinejad , Aditya Vijaykumar , Hsin-Yu Chen

The cosmic gamma-ray burst (GRB) formation rate, as derived from the variability-luminosity relation for long-duration GRBs, is compared with the cosmic star formation rate. If GRBs are related to the collapse of massive stars, one expects…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz , Edward E. Fenimore , Neil Trentham

We consider the possibility of observing supernova (SN) - gamma-ray burst (GRB) pairs separated by several years. These energetic events correspond to the second SN explosion in a double star system followed by the formation of the very…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-02-20 V. I. Dokuchaev , Yu. N. Eroshenko

In the last decade, enormous progress has been achieved in the understanding of the various facets of coalescing double neutron star and neutron black hole binary systems. One hopes that the mergers of such compact binaries can be routinely…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 S. Rosswog

The coalescence of a binary neutron star (NS) system may in some cases produce a massive NS remnant that is long-lived and, potentially, indefinitely stable to gravitational collapse. Such a remnant has been proposed as an explanation for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Brian D. Metzger , Geoffrey C. Bower

The jet breaks in the afterglow lightcurves of short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs), rarely detected so far, are crucial for estimating the half-opening angles of the ejecta ($\theta_{\rm j}$) and hence the neutron star merger rate. In this work…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-02 Zhi-Ping Jin , Xiang Li , Hao Wang , Yuan-Zhu Wang , Hao-Ning He , Qiang Yuan , Fu-Wen Zhang , Yuan-Chuan Zou , Yi-Zhong Fan , Da-Ming Wei

Short gamma-ray bursts are expected to be associated with compact object mergers, such as binary neutron star or neutron star-black hole systems, and are key high-energy multimessenger events. The detection of GRB 170817A, coinciding with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-25 I. F. Giudice , L. Izzo , R. Martone , M. T. Botticella , E. Cappellaro , R. De Rosa , M. Della Valle

Context. The coincident detection of GW170817 and GRB170817A marked a milestone for the connection between binary neutron star (BNS) mergers and short gamma-ray bursts (sGRBs). These mergers can lead to the formation of a black hole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-29 V. Mpisketzis , A. Nathanail

We combine sophisticated high precision scattering experiments, together with results from the Millenium-II simulation, to compute the cosmic merger rate of bound compact object (CO) binaries dynamically interacting with supermassive black…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-16 Yi-Han Wang , Nathan Leigh , Alberto Sesana , Rosalba Perna

The most popular progenitor model for short duration Gamma-Ray bursts (sGRBs) is the merger of two compact objects. However, the short GRB population exhibit a certain diversity: some bursts display an extended emission (EE), continuing in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-26 Nikhil Anand , Mustafa Shahid , Lekshmi Resmi

Observational follow-up of well localized short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs) has left $20-30\%$ of the population without a coincident host galaxy association to deep optical and NIR limits ($\gtrsim 26$ mag). These SGRBs have been classified…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-03 Brendan O'Connor , Paz Beniamini , Chryssa Kouveliotou