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Recent advances in fitting prompt emission spectra in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are boosting our understanding of the still elusive origin of this radiation. These progresses have been possible thanks to a more detailed analysis of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-07 Lara Nava , Gor Oganesyan , Maria E. Ravasio , Lorenzo Amati , Giancarlo Ghirlanda , Paul O'Brien , Julian P. Osborne , Richard Willingale

In an effort to understand the puzzle of classifying gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), we perform a systematic study of {\it Swift} GRBs and investigate several short GRB issues. Though short GRBs have a short ($\lesssim2$ s) prompt duration as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-08-24 Lang Shao , Zi-Gao Dai , Yi-Zhong Fan , Fu-Wen Zhang , Zhi-Ping Jin , Da-Ming Wei

The accurate localization of gamma-ray bursts remains a crucial task. While historically, improved localization have led to the discovery of afterglow emission and the realization of their cosmological distribution via redshift…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-24 J. Greiner , U. Hugentobler , J. M. Burgess , F. Berlato , M. Rott , A. Tsvetkova

Gravitational waves (GW) can be emitted from coalescing neutron star (NS) and black hole-neutron star (BH-NS) binaries, which are thought to be the sources of short hard gamma ray bursts (SHBs). The gamma ray fireballs seem to be beamed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 Dafne Guetta , David Eichler

Gamma-ray Bursts (GRBs) are one of the most energetic phenomena in the cosmos, whose study probes physics extremes beyond the reach of laboratories on Earth. Our quest to unravel the origin of these events and understand their underlying…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-25 Michela Negro , Nicoló Cibrario , Eric Burns , Joshua Wood , Adam Goldstein , Tito Dal Canton

gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are likely sources of ultra-high energy, >10^{19} eV, protons and high energy, >1 TeV, neutrinos. Large volume detectors of ultra high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) and high energy neutrinos, which are already…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 E. Waxman

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are among the most energetic events in the universe, offering insights into stellar collapse, extreme matter behavior, and cosmic evolution. The advent of multi-messenger astronomy, combining electromagnetic,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-13 Nicolas De Angelis

A persistent, thin, micro-nano sr. beamed gamma jet, may be ejected from BH and Pulsars, powered by ultra-relativistic electron pairs. These jet while precessing and spinning are originated by Inverse Compton and-or Synchrotron Radiation at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 D. Fargion , O. Lanciano , P. Oliva

Gamma ray bursts (GRB) occur at random points in the sky at cosmological distances. The spectra evolve through X-ray, optical region to possibly radio frequency. Though there are some models, the origin and time evolution of GRB are not…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Manoj Thulasidas

Gamma-ray Bursts (GRBs) are bursts of $\gamma$-rays generated from relativistic jets launched from catastrophic events such as massive star core collapse or binary compact star coalescence. Previous studies suggested that GRB emission is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-29 Bin-Bin Zhang , Bing Zhang , Alberto J. Castro-Tirado

Short, hard gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are believed to originate from the coalescence of two neutron stars (NSs) or a NS and a black hole (BH). If this scenario is correct, then short GRBs will be accompanied by the emission of strong…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-04-26 Alexander Dietz , Nickolas Fotopoulos , Leo Singer , Curt Cutler

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), as extremely energetic explosions in the universe, are widely believed to consist of two stages: the prompt phase and the subsequent afterglow. Recent studies indicate that some high-energy photons are emitted…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-02 Yingtian Chen , Bo-Qiang Ma

The nature of Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) remains a complete mystery, despite the recent breakthrough discovery of low energy counterparts, although it is now generally believed that at least most GRBs are at cosmological distances. Virtually…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Bradley E. Schaefer

GRBs have remained a puzzle for many high-energy astrophysicists since their discovery in 1967. With the advent of the X-ray satellites BeppoSAX and RossiXTE, it has been possible to carry out deep multi-wavelength observations of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alberto J. Castro-Tirado

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

GRBs are the most energetic events in the Universe, associated with the death of massive stars (core-collapse supernovae) or the merging of neutron stars or black holes. Discovered in the early 1970s, their cosmological origin was…

We investigate the number of gamma-ray bursts in two particular strips of the sky using the data in 3B catalog of Burst and Transient Source Experiment (BATSE). One stripe is related to the plane in which the intergalactic globular clusters…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 Y. Chen , M. Wu , L. M. Song

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the ultimate cosmic lighthouses, capable of illuminating the universe at its earliest epochs. Could such events probe the properties of the first stars at z $\sim$ 20, the end of the cosmic Dark Ages? Previous…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-16 R. A. Mesler , Daniel J. Whalen , Joseph Smidt , Chris L. Fryer , N. M. Lloyd-Ronning , Y. M. Pihlström

We discuss several constraints on the properties of gamma-ray bursts (GRB) at cosmological distances. First we use the requirement that burst sources must be optically thin to pair production by photon-photon collisions in order to produce…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Eric Woods , Abraham Loeb

If gamma-ray bursts originate in galaxies at cosmological distances, the host galaxy should be detected if a burst error box is searched deep enough; are the host galaxies present? We present and implement a statistical methodology which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 David L. Band , Dieter H. Hartmann
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