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Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are a promising probe of the high-redshift Universe, but their detection remains observationally challenging. In this work, we explore the detectability of high-$z$ GRBs by the Wide-field X-ray Telescope (WXT) aboard…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-21 Jun-Jie Wei , Xue-Feng Wu

Since its successful launch in June 2008, the {\it Fermi} Gamma-ray Space Telescope has made important breakthroughs in the understanding of the Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) phenomemon. The combination of the GBM and the LAT instruments onboard…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Frederic Piron , Valerie Connaughton

The immense power of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) make them ideal probes of the early universe. By using absorption lines in the afterglows of high-redshift GRBs, astronomers can study the evolution of metals in the early universe. With an…

I touch upon some of the discoveries made by the Swift Team during the first 18 months of operation focusing on a few critical points. In addition to the early afterglows and complete coverage of the light curves, we mention the discovery…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Chincarini

We compute the luminosity function (LF) and the formation rate of long gamma ray bursts (GRBs) by fitting the observed differential peak flux distribution obtained by the BATSE satellite in three different scenarios: i) GRBs follow the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. Salvaterra , C. Chincarini

If a small fraction of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are associated with Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs), as recently suggested by Zhang, the combination of redshift measurements of GRBs and dispersion measure (DM) measurements of FRBs opens a new…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-03-05 Wei Deng , Bing Zhang

Long-duration gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglow observations offer cutting-edge opportunities to characterise the star formation history of the Universe back to the epoch of reionisation, and to measure the chemical composition of…

The best measure of the Universe should be done using a standard "ruler" at any redshift. Type Ia Supernovae (SN Ia) probe the universe up to z$\sim$1.5, while the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) primary anisotropies concern basically…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Ghirlanda , G. Ghisellini , D. Lazzati , C. Firmani

We have computed the luminosity rest frame light curves of the first 40 Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) detected by Swift with well established redshift. We studied average properties of the light curves in the four subsamples of bursts given by…

A gamma-ray burst (GRB) is a strong and fast gamma-ray emission from the explosion of stellar systems (massive stars or coalescing binary compact stellar remnants), happening at any possible redshift, and detected by space missions.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-07-15 Sandra Savaglio

Studies of high-redshift gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) provide important information about the early Universe such as the rates of stellar collapsars and mergers, the metallicity content, constraints on the re-ionization period, and probes of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-23 T. N. Ukwatta , P. R. Wozniak , N. Gehrels

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most violent explosions in the Universe and can be used to explore the properties of high-redshift universe. It is believed that the long GRBs are associated with the deaths of massive stars. So it is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 H. Yu , F. Y. Wang , Z. G. Dai , K. S. Cheng

In this work, our focus is on exploring the potential of current GRB measurements to provide reliable constraints on cosmological model parameters at high redshift. This work is divided into two parts. First, we calibrate the Amati relation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-10 Darshan Kumar , Nisha Rani , Deepak Jain , Shobhit Mahajan , Amitabha Mukherjee

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have been detected up to GeV energies and are predicted by many models to emit in the very high energy (VHE, > 100 GeV) regime too. Detection of such emission would allow us to constrain GRB models. Since its launch,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-10-15 Milagro Collaboration , P. M. Saz Parkinson , B. L. Dingus

We exploit the 14 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) with known redshifts z and the 7 GRBs for which there are constraints on z to determine the GRB rate R_{GRB}(z), using a method based on Bayesian inference. We find that, despite the qualitative…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Nevin Weinberg , Carlo Graziani , Donald Q. Lamb , Daniel E. Reichart

Long-duration gamma-ray bursts (long-GRBs) can be detected throughout cosmic history and provide several unique insights into star-formation and galaxy evolution back to the era of reionization. They can be used to map star formation,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-07 N. R. Tanvir

The advent of large panoramic photometric surveys of the sky offers the possibly of exploring the association of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) with supernovae. To date, a few gamma-ray bursts have been connected possibly with supernovae: GRB…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jeremy S. Heyl

Gamma rays from extragalactic sources are attenuated by pair-production interactions with diffuse photons of the extragalactic background light (EBL). Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are a source of high-redshift photons above 10 GeV, and could be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Rudy C. Gilmore , Francisco Prada , Joel R. Primack

We present the results of our study of the variability time scales of a sample of 27 long Swift Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) with known redshifts. The variability time scale can help our understanding of fundamental GRB parameters such as the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-06-18 T. N. Ukwatta , K. S. Dhuga , W. C. Parke , T. Sakamoto , C. B. Markwardt , S. D. Barthelmy , D. F. Cioffi , A. Eskandarian , N. Gehrels , L. Maximon , D. C. Morris

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are cosmologically distributed, very energetic and very transient sources detected in the gamma-ray domain. The identification of their x-ray and optical afterglows allowed so far the redshift measurement of 150…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sandra Savaglio