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Distinct X-ray plateau and flare phases have been observed in the afterglows of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), and most of them should be related to central engine activities. In this paper, we collect 174 GRBs with X-ray plateau phases and 106…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-19 Shuang-Xi Yi , Mei Du , Tong Liu

It is now generally accepted that long-duration gamma ray bursts (GRBs) are due to the collapse of massive rotating stars. The precise collapse process itself, however, is not yet fully understood. Strong winds, outbursts, and intense…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Robert A. Mesler , Daniel J. Whalen , Nicole M. Lloyd-Ronning , Chris L. Fryer , Ylva M. Pihlström

We predict the rate at which Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) afterglows should be detected in supernova searches as a function of limiting flux. Although GRB afterglows are rarer than supernovae, they are detectable at greater distances because of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Eric Woods , Abraham Loeb

We present a set of seventeen Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) with known redshifts and X-ray afterglow emission. We apply cosmological corrections in order to compare their fluxes normalized at a redshift of 1. Two classes of GRB can be defined…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 B. Gendre , M. Boer

We present the first statistical analysis of 27 UVOT optical/ultra-violet lightcurves of GRB afterglows. We have found, through analysis of the lightcurves in the observer's frame, that a significant fraction rise in the first 500s after…

Most studies of quasi-periodic pulsations in solar flares have identified characteristic periods in the 5 - 300s range. Due to observational limitations there have been few attempts to probe the < 5s period regime and understand the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-12 Andrew R. Inglis , Laura A. Hayes

We analyze several recently detected gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) with late X-ray flares in the context of late internal shock and late external shock models. We find that the X-ray flares in GRB 050421 and GRB 050502B originate from late…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 X. F. Wu , Z. G. Dai , X. Y. Wang , Y. F. Huang , L. L. Feng , T. Lu

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) rank among the most powerful astrophysical phenomena, characterized by complex and highly variable prompt emission light curves that reflect the dynamics of their central engines. In this work, we analyze a sample of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-28 Ruo-Yu Guan , Fei-Fei Wang , Yuan-Chuan Zou

In order to obtain an overview of the gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), we need a full sample. In this paper, we collected 6289 GRBs (from GRB 910421 to GRB 160509A) from the literature, including prompt emission, afterglow and host galaxy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-13 Feifei Wang , Yuan-Chuan Zou , Fuxiang Liu , Bin Liao , Yu Liu , Yating Chai , Lei Xia

We present new observations of the early X-ray afterglows of the first 27 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) detected with the Swift X-ray Telescope (XRT). The early X-ray afterglows show a canonical behavior, where the light curve broadly consists of…

We report on a search for X-ray afterglows from gamma-ray bursts using the ROSAT all-sky survey (RASS) data. If the emission in the soft X-ray band is significantly less beamed than in the gamma-ray band, we expect to detect many afterglows…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Greiner , D. H. Hartmann , W. Voges , Th. Boller , R. Schwarz , S. Zharykov

We have searched for gamma-ray bursts (GRB) in the BATSE DISCLA data covering the period TJD 8365-10528. We employ an algorithm that uses the background both before and after the onset of the burst, and that requires an excess of at least 5…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Schmidt

We present a flare rate analysis of 50,130 M dwarf light curves in SDSS Stripe 82. We identified 271 flares using a customized variability index to search ~2.5 million photometric observations for flux increases in the u- and g-bands. Every…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-28 A. F. Kowalski , S. L. Hawley , E. J. Hilton , A. C. Becker , A. A. West , J. J. Bochanski , B. Sesar

We compute the average luminosity of X-ray flares as a function of time, for a sample of 10 long-duration gamma-ray burst afterglows. The mean luminosity, averaged over a timescale longer than the duration of the individual flares, declines…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Davide Lazzati , Rosalba Perna , Mitchell C. Begelman

We present an optical flux vs. X-ray flux diagram for all known gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) for which an X-ray afterglow has been detected. We propose an operational definition of dark bursts as those bursts that are optically subluminous with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Jakobsson , J. Hjorth , J. P. U. Fynbo , D. Watson , K. Pedersen , G. Bjornsson , J. Gorosabel

Aims: We characterize individual and ensemble properties of X-ray flares from stars in the CygOB2 and ONC star-forming regions. Method: We analyzed X-ray lightcurves of 1003 CygOB2 sources observed with Chandra for 100 ksec and of 1616 ONC…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. F. Albacete Colombo , M. Caramazza , E. Flaccomio , G. Micela , S. Sciortino

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) show diverse X-ray afterglow light-curves, including breaks and plateaus, whose physical origins remain debated. Previous claims linked high-energy ($E \ge 100$ MeV) detection to X-ray afterglow complexity or plateau…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-27 A. A. Vigliano , F. Longo , Ž. Bošnjak

Observations of X-ray flares from Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) imply strong constraints on possible physical models. We provide a general discussion of these. In particular, we show that in order to account for the relatively flat and weak…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-03 Paz Beniamini , Pawan Kumar

Macrolensing of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is expected to manifest as a GRB recurring with the same light curve and spectrum as a previous one, but with a different flux and a slightly offset position. Identifying such lensed GRBs may give…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-22 Björn Ahlgren , Josefin Larsson

Using the generic hydrodynamic model of Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) afterglows, we calculate the radio afterglow light curves of low luminosity, high luminosity, failed and standard GRBs in different observational bands of FAST's energy window.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Zhi-Bin Zhang , Si-Wei Kong , Yong-Feng Huang , Di Li , Long-Biao Li