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We discuss gamma-ray bursts that have very hard spectra, consistent with black-body radiation, throughout their duration. We find that the temperature decay during a pulse can be well described by a broken power-law in time, with an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Felix Ryde

A simple scheme delineates Long GRBs with similar time histories using the Internal Luminosity Function power-law index and the spectral lag. Several generalizations are made about time history morphologies: 1) GRBs with long spectral lags…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Jon Hakkila , Timothy W. Giblin

Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) are notorious for their diversity. Yet, they have a series of common features. The typical energy of their $\gamma$ rays is a fraction of an MeV. The energy distributions are well described by a ``Band spectrum'',…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Arnon Dar , A. De Rujula

The energy spectra of pulses of GRBs are modeled for synchrotron and multiple self-inverse Compton scatterings from a population of thermal and non-thermal $e^-$s. The contribution from pairs that result from annihilation is also taken into…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Papathanassiou

In this paper, we study a sample of 65 short duration bursts contained in the 3B catalogue. We fit the time profiles of these GRBs with lognormal functions and study various temporal properties. In most of the multi-peaked bursts, our…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Varsha Gupta , Patrick Das Gupta , P. N. Bhat

In several GRBs afterglows, rapid temporal decay is observed which is inconsistent with spherical (isotropic) blast-wave models. In particular, GRB 980519 had the most rapidly fading of the well-documented GRB afterglows, with t^{-2.05\pm…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Re'em Sari , Tsvi Piran , Jules Halpern

The Swift-XRT observations of the early X-ray afterglow of GRBs show that it usually begins with a steep decay phase. A possible origin of this early steep decay is the high latitude emission that subsists when the on-axis emission of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-06-29 R. Hascoët , F. Daigne , R. Mochkovitch

A comprehensive study is given to short gamma-ray bursts (sGRBs) in the third Swift/BAT GRB Catalog from December 2004 to July 2019. We examine in details the temporal properties of the three components in the prompt gamma-ray emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-17 X. J. Li , Z. B. Zhang , X. L. Zhang , H. Y. Zhen

The X-ray light curves of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) display complex features, including plateaus and flares, that challenge theoretical models. Here, we study the properties of flares that are observed in the early afterglow phase (up to a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-17 H. Dereli-Bégué , A. Pe'er , D. Bégué , F. Ryde

Using a theoretical model describing pulse shapes, we have clarified the relations between the observed pulses and their corresponding timescales, such as the angular spreading time, the dynamic time as well as the cooling time. We find…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Zhibin Zhang , G. Z. Xie , J. G. Deng , B. T. Wei

The properties of the spectral evolution during the prompt emission phase of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), which are closely related to the radiation mechanism (synchrotron or photosphere), are still a subject of debate. Two spectral evolution…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-21 Liang Li

Non conventional localized pulses, like offset bipolars have been reported in the Earths magnetosphere. The reports were sporadic and the theoretical interpretations were mainly event based which differ for slow or fast moving pulses. Here…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-07-23 S. V. Steffy , S. S. Ghosh

We present a detailed study of GRB090111, focusing on its extra soft power-law photon index Gamma>5 at the very steep decay phase emission (power-law index alpha=5.1, steeper than 96% of GRBs detected by Swift) and the following peculiar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 R. Margutti , T. Sakamoto , G. Chincarini , C. Guidorzi , J. Mao , F. Pasotti , D. Burrows , P. D'Avanzo , S. Campana , S. D. Barthelmy , N. Gehrels

In spite of the complicated behavior in the time domain, long GRBs show a simpler behavior in the Fourier domain of frequencies, represented by power density spectra, PDS. Recently, there are some relations found between GRBs properties and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-07 S. Boçi , M. Hafizi

Considering the shortage of comparative studies on pulse temporal characteristics between single-peaked short gamma-ray bursts (sGRBs) and double-peaked sGRBs, we examine the pulse properties of a sample of 100 BATSE sGRBs using the BATSE…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-15 X. J. Li , Z. B. Zhang , C. T. Zhang , K. Zhang , Y. Zhang , X. F. Dong

This paper reports statistically significant correlations between various burst parameters, observed in a sample of 156 GRBs belonging to BATSE 4B catalog with T90 less than 2 s. The number of subpulses in a burst is strongly correlated not…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Varsha Gupta , Patrick Das Gupta , P. N. Bhat

Pulse-pileup affects most photon counting systems and occurs when photon detections occur faster than the detector's registration and recovery time. At high input rates, shaped pulses interfere and the source spectrum, as well as intensity…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-30 Vandiver Chaplin , Narayana Bhat , Michael Briggs , Valerie Connaughton

Magnetars, isolated neutron stars with magnetic field strengths typically $\gtrsim10^{14}$~G, exhibit distinctive months-long outburst epochs during which strong evolution of soft X-ray pulse profiles, along with nonthermal magnetospheric…

We have conducted a thorough and blind search for emission lines in >70 Swift X-ray afterglows of total exposure ~10^7s. We find that most afterglows are consistent with pure power-laws plus extinction. Significant outliers to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Nathaniel R. Butler

The temporal behaviour of the early optical emission from Gamma-Ray Burst afterglows can be divided in four classes: fast-rising with an early peak, slow-rising with a late peak, flat plateaus, and rapid decays since first measurement. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Panaitescu , W. T. Vestrand