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Although the time profiles of gamma ray bursts (GRBs) show extremely diverse behavior, their average statistical properties such as the average peak-aligned profile and the auto-correlation function show simple stretched-exponential…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Boris E. Stern , Roland Svensson

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have variable lightcurves. Although most models attribute the observed variability to one physical origin (e.g. central engine activity, clumpy circumburst medium, relativistic turbulence), some models invoke two…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 He Gao , Bin-Bin Zhang , Bing Zhang

This manuscript presents a multilevel analysis of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). We focus on the plateau phase, which is often observed in the light curves (LCs) of GRBs. We discuss its observational properties and then thoroughly examine…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-09 Aleksander Ł. Lenart , Maria G. Dainotti , Nikita Khatiya , Dhruv Bal , Dieter H. Hartmann , Nissim Fraija , Bing Zhang

The observations of the prompt emission of gamma ray bursts (GRB) by GLAST Burst Monitor (GBM), on board Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, suggest the presence of a significant thermal spectral component, whose origin is not well understood.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-29 Priya Bharali , Sunder Sahayanathan , Ranjeev Misra , Kalyanee Boruah

The Gamma-Ray Bursts - GRBs are one of the most energetic astronomical events in the universe that have not yet an adequate explanation of what kind of mechanism is carried out. This question motivates the astronomical community to do…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-07-05 Camilo Delgado-Correal

Long-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are thought to come from the core-collapse of Wolf-Rayet stars. Whereas their stellar masses $M_*$ have a rather narrow distribution, the population of GRBs is very diverse, with gamma-ray luminosities…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Dimitrios Giannios

Two classes of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), short and long, have been determined without any doubts, and are usually ascribed to different progenitors, yet these classes overlap for a variety of descriptive parameters. A subsample of 46 long…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-05 Mariusz Tarnopolski

The study of temporal properties of variable sources can elucidate their physical processes. In this context, we present a critical study comparing three approaches to periodic or quasiperiodic behavior: Gaussian process, power spectrum,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-08 Fei-Fan Song , Jirong Mao

We determined the characteristic variability time scales (\Delta t_p) of 410 bright and long GRBs, by locating the peaks of their Power Density Spectra, defined and calculated in the time domain. We found that the averaged variability time…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 R. F. Shen , L. M. Song

We analyze pulse properties of Short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) from a new catalog containing 434 pulses from 387 BATSE Time-Tagged Event (TTE) GRBs. Short GRB pulses exhibit correlated properties of duration, fluence, hardness, and amplitude,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-28 Jon Hakkila , Istvan Horvath , Eric Hofesmann , Stephen Lesage

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

Gamma ray burst (GRB) afterglow light curves have the potential to inform us about presently unobserved stages in the aftermath of a neutron star merger. Using numerical simulations of short GRB afterglows we obtain an approximate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-07 Muhammed Diyaddin Ilhan , Kai Schwenzer

We show that the time variability of a gamma-ray burst (GRB) appears to be correlated with the absolute luminosity of the burst: smooth bursts are intrinsically less luminous. This Cepheid-like relationship can be used to determine the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. E. Fenimore , E. Ramirez-Ruiz

Recent observations have challenged the long-held opinion that the duration of gamma-ray burst (GRB) prompt emission is determined by the activity epochs of the central engine. Specifically, the observations of GRB 230307A have revealed a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-25 Shu-Xu Yi , Emre Seyit Yorgancioglu , S. -L. Xiong , S. -N. Zhang

In this work we study the distribution of temporal power-law decay indices, $\alpha$, in the Gamma Ray Burst (GRB) afterglow phase, fitted for $176$ GRBs (139 long GRBs, 12 short GRBs {\it with extended emission} and 25 X-Ray Flashes…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-07 Roberta Del Vecchio , Maria Giovanna Dainotti , Michał Ostrowski

Despite decades of polarization observations and high-significance polarized $\gamma$-ray, X-ray, optical, and radio emissions in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have been accumulating in dozens of cases, people have yet to find a consistent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-09 Liang Li , She-Sheng Xue , Zi-Gao Dai

We present a simple, semi-analytical model to explain GRB temporal and spectral properties in the context of the internal shock model. Each individual pulse in the temporal profiles is produced by the deceleration of fast moving material by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Frederic Daigne , Robert Mochkovitch

A temporal analysis was performed on a sample of 100 bright short GRBs with T90 < 2s from the BATSE Current Catalog along with a similar analysis on 319 long bright GRBs with T90 > 2s from the same catalog. The short GRBs were denoised…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. McBreen , F. Quilligan , B. McBreen , L. Hanlon , D. Watson

A theoretical attempt to identify the physical process responsible for the afterglow emission of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) is presented, leading to the occurrence of thermal emission in the comoving frame of the shock wave giving rise to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Ruffini , C. L. Bianco , P. Chardonnet , F. Fraschetti , V. Gurzadyan , S. -S. Xue

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are ultra-relativistic collimated outflows, which emit synchrotron radiation throughout the entire electromagnetic spectrum when they interact with their environment. This afterglow emission enables us to probe the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-09 M. D. Aksulu , R. A. M. J. Wijers , H. J. van Eerten , A. J. van der Horst