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Time-resolved spectroscopy is performed on eight bright, long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) dominated by single emission pulses that were observed with the {\it Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope}. Fitting the prompt radiation of GRBs by empirical…

A small fraction of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) exhibit blackbody emission in the X-ray spectra, the origin of which is debated. In order to gain a more complete understanding of this phenomenon, we present a search for blackbody components in…

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We argue that a nonthermally looking spectrum of a gamma-ray burst (GRB) can be formed as a superposition of a set of thermal blackbody spectra. This superposition may be done by time integration which is present even in `time resolved' GRB…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. I. Blinnikov , A. V. Kozyreva , I. E. Panchenko

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.…

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The radiation mechanism of the prompt emission of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) remains an open question. Although their spectra are usually well fitted with the empirical Band function, which is widely believed to be fully non-thermal and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-17 Shu-Jin Hou , Bin-Bin Zhang , Yan-Zhi Meng , Xue-Feng Wu , En-Wei Liang , Hou-Jun Lü , Tong Liu , Yun-Feng Liang , Lin Lin , Rui-jing Lu , Jin-Shu Huang , Bing Zhang

Blackbody-dominated (BBD) gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are events characterized by long durations and the presence of a significant thermal component following the prompt emission, as well as by the absence of a typical afterglow. GRB 101225A is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Carlos F. Cuesta-Martínez , Miguel-Ángel Aloy , Petar Mimica , Christina C. Thöne , Antonio de Ugarte-Postigo

The origin of gamma-ray burst (GRB) prompt emission, bursts of gamma-rays lasting from shorter than one second to thousands of seconds, remains not fully understood after more than 40 years of observations. The uncertainties lie in several…

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In recent years, our understanding of gamma-ray bursts (GRB) prompt emission has been revolutionized, due to a combination of new instruments, new analysis methods and novel ideas. In this review, I describe the most recent observational…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-23 Asaf Pe'er

The understanding of the prompt $\gamma$-ray spectra of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is of great importance to correctly interpreting the physical mechanisms that produce the underlying event as well as the structure of the relativistic jet from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 J. Michael Burgess

Tremendous information is hidden in the light curve of a gamma-ray burst (GRB). Based on CGRO/BATSE data, Hakkila (2021) found a majority of GRBs can be characterized by a smooth, single-peaked component superposed with a temporally…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-25 Dong-Jie Liu , Yuan-Chuan Zou

Gamma ray burst (GRB) time series is a non-stationary time series with all its statistical properties varying with time. Considering that each GRB is a different manifestation of the same stochastic process we studied the time dependent as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Nilay Bhatt , Subir Bhattacharyya

The prompt emission of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) could be composed of different spectral components, such as a dominant non-thermal Band component in the keV-MeV range, a subdominant quasi-thermal component, and an additional hard non-thermal…

The prompt emission mechanism of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is still unclear, and the time-resolved spectral analysis of GRBs is a powerful tool for studying their underlying physical processes. We performed a detailed time-resolved spectral…

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The prompt emission of gamma-ray bursts has yet defied any simple explanation, despite the presence of a rich observational material and great theoretical efforts. Here we show that all the types of spectral evolution and spectral shapes…

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Blackbody-dominated (BBD) gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are events characterized by the absence of a typical afterglow, long durations and the presence of a significant thermal component following the prompt gamma-ray emission. GRB 101225A (the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-02-26 Carlos F. Cuesta-Martínez , Miguel-Ángel Aloy , Petar Mimica , Christina C. Thöne , Antonio de Ugarte-Postigo

The quasi-thermal components found in many Fermi gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) imply that the photosphere emission indeed contributes to the prompt emission of many GRBs. But whether the observed spectra empirically fitted by the Band function or…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-02 Yan-Zhi Meng , Liang-Duan Liu , Jun-Jie Wei , Xue-Feng Wu , Bin-Bin Zhang

We aim to obtain high-quality time-resolved spectral fits of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) observed by the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. We perform time-resolved spectral analysis with high temporal…

We study 7 Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs), detected both by the BATSE instrument, on-board the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, and by the Wide Field Camera (WFC), on-board BeppoSAX. These bursts have measured spectroscopic redshifts and are a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 G. Ghirlanda , Z. Bosnjak , G. Ghisellini , F. Tavecchio , C. Firmani

A thermal component is suggested to be the physical composition of the ejecta of several bright gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Such a thermal component is discovered in the time-integrated spectra of several short GRBs as well as long GRBs. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-04 Ying-Yong Hu , Yao-Lin Huang , Jia-Wei Huang , Zan Zhu , Qing-Wen Tang

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are challenging to identify due to their transient nature, complex temporal profiles, and limited observational datasets. We address this with a one-dimensional convolutional neural network integrated with an…

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