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We present here our results of the temporal and spectral analysis of a sample of 52 bright and hard gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) observed with the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) during its first year of operation (July 2008-July 2009). Our…

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are extremely high-energy events that can be observed at very high redshift. In addition to gamma rays, they can emit in X-ray, optical, and sometimes radio wavelengths. Here, following the approach in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-07 M. G. Dainotti , D. Levine , D. Warren , N. Fraija , S. Sourav

We perform a blind search for the variability of the gamma-ray sky in the energy range E>1 GeV using 308 weeks of the Fermi-LAT data. We use the technique based on the comparison of the weekly photon counts and exposures in sky pixels by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-22 M. S. Pshirkov , G. I. Rubtsov

The X-ray light curves of many gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) observed by the Swift X-Ray Telescope (XRT) have a very steep-decay component (tail) following the prompt gamma-rays in the early phase and have some erratic flares occurring at a time…

Well-sampled optical light curves of 50 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) with plateau features are compiled from the literature. By empirical fitting, we obtained the parameters of the optical plateaus, such as the decay slopes ($\alpha_{\rm 1}$ and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-15 Shu-Kun Si , Yan-Qing Qi , Feng-Xia Xue , Ya-Jie Liu , Xiao Wu , Shuang-Xi Yi , Qing-Wen Tang , Yuan-Chuan Zou , Fei-Fei Wang , Xiang-Gao Wang

Long-term \textit{Fermi}-LAT monitoring makes it possible to ask whether a blazar light curve shows signs of an upcoming flare before the flare becomes obvious in the $\gamma$-ray emission. We present a strictly causal machine-learning…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-11 Zahir Shah , Sikandar Akbar

We present a comprehensive statistical analysis of Swift X-ray light-curves of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) collecting data from more than 650 GRBs discovered by Swift and other facilities. The unprecedented sample size allows us to constrain…

We examine the Swift/X-ray Telescope (XRT) light curves from the first ~150 gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglows. Although we expected to find jet breaks at typical times of 1-2 days after the GRB, we find that these appear to be extremely…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 David N. Burrows , Judith Racusin

X-ray flares, lasting for $\sim 100 - 1000$ s in the X-ray band, are often observed following gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). The physical origin of X-ray flares is still unknown merely with the temporal/spectral information. On the other hand,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-08 Jin-Jun Geng , Yong-Feng Huang , Xue-Feng Wu , Li-Ming Song , Hong-Shi Zong

We present two main results, based on the models and the statistical analyses of 1672 U-band flares. We also discuss the behaviours of the white-light flares. In addition, the parameters of the flares detected from two years of observations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 H. A. Dal

The flare activity that is observed in GRBs soon after the prompt emission with the XRT (0.3-10 KeV) instrument on board of the Swift satellite is leading to important clues in relation to the physical characteristics of the mechanism…

We present predictions of centimeter and millimeter radio emission from reverse shocks in the early afterglows of gamma-ray bursts with the goal of determining their detectability with current and future radio facilities. Using a range of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-31 D. Kopac , C. G. Mundell , S. Kobayashi , F. J. Virgili , R. Harrison , J. Japelj , C. Guidorzi , A. Melandri , A. Gomboc

We have analyzed the light curves of 519 short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) detected in the SPI-ACS/INTEGRAL experiment from December 2002 to May 2014 to search for precursors. Both the light curves of 519 individual events and the averaged…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-12 Pavel Minaev , Alexei Pozanenko

This study presents a statistical analysis of optical light curves (LCs) of 200 UVOT-detected GRBs from 2005 to 2018. We have categorised these LCs based on their distinct morphological features, including early flares, bumps, breaks,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-10 Amit K. Ror , S. B. Pandey , S. R. Oates , Rahul Gupta , Amar Aryan , A. J. Castro-Tirado , Sudhir Kumar

Until recently, X-ray flares during the afterglow of gamma ray bursts (GRBs) were a rarely detected phenomenon, thus their nature is unclear. During the afterglow of GRB 050502B, the largest X-ray flare ever recorded rose rapidly above the…

The detection of x-ray afterglows of gamma-ray burst (GRB) sources has enabled the optical discovery that GRBs are at cosmological distances, which confirms that the enormous luminosities required must produce a relativistically expanding…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Jonathan E. Grindlay

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are bright milliseconds-duration radio bursts from cosmological distances. Despite intense observational and theoretical studies, their physical origin is still mysterious. One major obstacle is the lack of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-12 Yi Xing , Wenfei Yu , Zhen Yan , Xian Zhang , Bing Zhang

In an attempt to constrain and understand the emission mechanism of gamma rays, we perform a cross-correlation analysis of 15 blazars using light curves in millimetre, optical and gamma rays. We use discrete correlation function and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-15 V. Ramakrishnan , T. Hovatta , M. Tornikoski , K. Nilsson , E. Lindfors , M. Baloković , A. Lähteenmäki , R. Reinthal , L. Takalo

Gamma Ray Bursts are being searched in many ground based experiments detecting the high energy component (GeV $\div$ TeV energy range) of the photon bursts. In this paper, Fluorescence Detectors are considered as possible candidate devices…

Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-11 R. Aloisio , D. Boncioli , A. F. Grillo , C. Macolino , S. Petrera , P. Privitera , V. Rizi , F. Salamida

We analyzed the light curves of 1376 early-to-late, nearby M dwarfs to search for white-light flares using photometry from the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN). We identified 480 M dwarfs with at least one potential flare…