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With the successful launch of the Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Explorer, people expected the prompt optical flash like GRB990123 would be easily detected. However the fact that early optical flash have not been detected for a number of GRBs…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 D. M. Wei

We present a multi-wavelength analysis of gamma-ray burst GRB 090727, for which optical emission was detected during the prompt gamma-ray emission by the 2-m autonomous robotic Liverpool Telescope and subsequently monitored for a further…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 D. Kopac , S. Kobayashi , A. Gomboc , J. Japelj , C. G. Mundell , C. Guidorzi , A. Melandri , D. Bersier , Z. Cano , R. J. Smith , I. A. Steele , F. J. Virgili

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) can be probes of the early universe, but currently, only 26% of GRBs observed by the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory GRBs have known redshifts ($z$) due to observational limitations. To address this, we estimated the…

Being able to quickly select among gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) seen by the Swift satellite those which are high-z candidates would give ground-based observers a better chance to determine a redshift for such distant GRBs. Information about…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-06-25 T. N. Ukwatta , T. Sakamoto , K. S. Dhuga , W. C. Parke , S. D. Barthelmy , N. Gehrels , M. Stamatikos , J. Tueller

We analyze the Swift XRT light curves and spectra of the gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) for which the redshift has been measured. The sample consists of seven GRBs. The soft X-ray light curves of all these GRBs are separated into at least two…

The first gravitational-wave event from the merger of a binary neutron star system (GW170817) was detected recently. The associated short gamma-ray burst (GRB 170817A) has a low isotropic luminosity ($\sim 10^{47}$ erg s$ ^{-1}$) and a peak…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-19 Yan-Zhi Meng , Jin-Jun Geng , Bin-Bin Zhang , Jun-Jie Wei , Di Xiao , Liang-Duan Liu , He Gao , Xue-Feng Wu , En-Wei Liang , Yong-Feng Huang , Zi-Gao Dai , Bing Zhang

To draw inferences about gamma-ray burst (GRB) source populations based on Swift observations, it is essential to understand the detection efficiency of the Swift burst alert telescope (BAT). This study considers the problem of modeling the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-10 Philip B Graff , Amy Y Lien , John G Baker , Takanori Sakamoto

We show the existence of two families of short GRBs, both originating from the merger of binary neutron stars (NSs): family-1 with $E_{iso}<10^{52}$ erg, leading to a massive NS as the merged core, and family-2 with $E_{iso}>10^{52}$ erg,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-19 R. Ruffini , M. Muccino , M. Kovacevic , F. G. Oliveira , J. A. Rueda , C. L. Bianco , M. Enderli , A. V. Penacchioni , G. B. Pisani , Y. Wang , E. Zaninoni

We aim to investigate the ability of simple spectral models to describe the GRB early afterglow emission. We performed a time resolved spectral analysis of a bright GRB sample detected by the Swift Burst Alert Telescope and promptly…

One favored progenitor model for short duration gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs) is the coalescence of two neutron stars (NS-NS). One possible outcome of such a merger would be a rapidly spinning, strongly magnetized neutron star (known as a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Hou-Jun Lü , Bing Zhang , Wei-Hua Lei , Ye Li , Paul D Lasky

Neutrino emission from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) has been sought for a long time, and stringent limits on the most accredited GRB emission models have been obtained from IceCube. Multi-wavelength GRB observations of the last decades improved…

GRB 160821B is a short gamma-ray burst (GRB) at redshift $z=0.16$, with a duration less than 1 second and without detection of any "extended emission" up to more than 100 seconds in both {\em Swift}/BAT and {\em Fermi}/GBM bands. An X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-08 Hou-Jun Lü , Hai-Ming Zhang , Shu-Qing Zhong , Shu-Jin Hou , Hui Sun , Jared Rice , En-Wei Liang

We have analyzed the prompt and afterglow characteristics of the intermediate luminosity burst ``GRB 210210A". Our prompt emission analysis indicates that GRB 210210A is among the softest long GRBs detected by the Swift-BAT. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-10 Rahul Gupta , A. K. Ror , S. B. Pandey , J. Racusin , M. Moss , A. Aryan , N. Klingler , A. J. Castro-Tirado

GRB 100418A is a long burst at z=0.624 without detection of any associated supernova (SN). Its lightcurves in both the prompt and afterglow phases are similar to GRB 060614, a nearby long GRB without an associated SN. We analyze the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Lan-Wei Jia , Xue-Feng Wu , Hou-Jun LV , Shu-Jin Hou , En-Wei Liang

The joint X and gamma-ray observations of GRB 090618 by a large number of satellites offer an unprecedented possibility of testing crucial aspects of theoretical models. In particular, it allows us to test (a) the formation of an optically…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 L. Izzo , R. Ruffini , A. V. Penacchioni , C. L. Bianco , L. Caito , S. K. Chakrabarti , Jorge A. Rueda , A. Nandi , B. Patricelli

Swift triggered on a precursor to the main burst of GRB 061121 (z=1.314), allowing observations to be made from the optical to gamma-ray bands. Many other telescopes, including Konus-Wind, XMM-Newton, ROTSE and the Faulkes Telescope North,…

We report on a comprehensive set of observations of Gamma Ray Burst 050716, detected by the Swift satellite and subsequently followed-up rapidly in X-ray, optical and near infra-red wavebands. The prompt emission is typical of long-duration…

The bright GRB 050408 was localized by HETE-II near local midnight, enabling an impressive ground-based followup effort as well as space-based followup from Swift. The Swift data from the X-Ray Telescope (XRT) and our own optical photometry…

As an interesting subclass of gamma-ray burst (GRB), Type IL GRB (such as GRB 211211A and GRB 230307A) features a long-duration prompt emission but originating from compact binary merger. The "long duration" emisison of Type IL GRB are…

Using the Swift data of GRB 050315, we progress on the uniqueness of our theoretically predicted Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) structure as composed by a proper-GRB (P-GRB), emitted at the transparency of an electron-positron plasma with suitable…