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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 experiment in two different scenarios: i) the GRB luminosity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 R. Salvaterra , C. Guidorzi , S. Campana , G. Chincarini , G. Tagliaferri

The determination of luminosity function (LF) of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is of an important role for the cosmological applications of the GRBs, which is however hindered seriously by some selection effects due to redshift measurements. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-10-17 Wei-Wei Tan , Xiao-Feng Cao , Yun-Wei Yu

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

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

In this work, we update and enlarge the long gamma-ray burst (GRB) sample detected by the {\it Swift} satellite. Given the incomplete sampling of the faint bursts and the low completeness in redshift measurement, we carefully select a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-15 Guang-Xuan Lan , Jun-Jie Wei , Hou-Dun Zeng , Ye Li , Xue-Feng Wu

The accumulation of {\it Swift} observed gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) gradually makes it possible to directly derive a GRB luminosity function (LF) from observational luminosity distribution, where however two complexities must be involved as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-07-11 Xiao-Feng Cao , Yun-Wei Yu , K. S. Cheng , Xiao-Ping Zheng

We study the luminosity function and formation rate of long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) by using a maximum likelihood method. This is the first time this method is applied to a well-defined sample of GRBs that is complete in redshift. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-31 Guang-Xuan Lan , Hou-Dun Zeng , Jun-Jie Wei , Xue-Feng Wu

We employ realistic constraints on astrophysical and instrumental selection effects to model the Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) redshift distribution using {\it Swift} triggered redshift samples acquired from optical afterglows (OA) and the TOUGH…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 David Coward , Eric Howell , Marica Branchesi , Giulia Strata , Dafne Guetta , Bruce Gendre , Damien Macpherson

We study the luminosity function (LF), the comoving rate and the detection rate of Long Gamma-Ray Burst (LGRBs) to high redshift, using galaxy catalogues constructed by combining high-resolution N-body simulations with semi-analytic models…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 M. A. Campisi , L. -X. Li , P. Jakobsson

We compute the luminosity function (LF) and the formation rate of long gamma ray bursts (GRBs) in three different scenarios: i) GRBs follow the cosmic star formation and their LF is constant in time; ii) GRBs follow the cosmic star…

We derive, adopting a direct method, the luminosity function and the formation rate of long Gamma Ray Bursts through a complete, flux-limited, sample of Swift bursts which has a high level of completeness in redshift z (~82%). We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-17 A. Pescalli , G. Ghirlanda , R. Salvaterra , G. Ghisellini , S. D. Vergani , F. Nappo , O. S. Salafia , A. Melandri , S. Covino , D. Götz

We compute the intrinsic isotropic peak luminosity function (LF) and formation rate of long gamma-ray bursts (LGRBs) using a novel approach. We complement a standard log\,$N$\,--\,log\,$P$ brightness distribution and $V_{\mathrm{max}}$…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 E. J. Howell , D. M. Coward , G. Stratta , B. Gendre , H. Zhou

The cosmic formation rate of long Gamma Ray Bursts (LGRBs) encodes the evolution, across cosmic times, of their progenitors' properties and of their environment. The LGRB formation rate and the luminosity function, with its redshift…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-15 G. Ghirlanda , R. Salvaterra

Long gamma-ray bursts (LGRBs) are typically thought to result from the collapse of massive stars. Nonetheless, recent observations of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) 211211A and 230307A, coupled with the low-redshift excess of LGRB event rates…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-12 Yan-Kun Qu , Zhong-Xiao Man , Zhi-Bin Zhang

In this work, we restudy the dependence of luminosity function and event rates for different gamma-ray burst samples on the criteria of sample selection and threshold effect. To compare with many previous studies, we have chosen two samples…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-20 X. F. Dong , X. J. Li , Z. B. Zhang , X. L. Zhang

We are constructing a program to estimate the redshifts for GRBs from the original Swift light curves and spectra, aiming to get redshifts for the Swift bursts \textit{without} spectroscopic or photometric redshifts. We derive the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Limin Xiao , Bradley E. Schaefer

We present a carefully selected sub-sample of Swift Long Gamma-ray Bursts (GRBs), that is complete in redshift. The sample is constructed by considering only bursts with favorable observing conditions for ground-based follow-up searches,…

As of December 2023, the Swift satellite has detected more than 1600 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). We select 307 Type II GRBs for constructing the luminosity function (LF) based on the following criteria: (1) duration $T_{90} \geq 2 s$; (2)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-19 Yan-Kun Qu , Zhong-Xiao Man , Yu-Peng Yang , Shuang-Xi Yi , Mei Du , Fa-yin Wang

The long gamma-ray burst (GRB) rate is essential for revealing the connection between GRBs, supernovae and stellar evolution. Additionally, the GRB rate at high redshift provides a strong probe of star formation history in the early…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-20 Amy Lien , Takanori Sakamoto , Neil Gehrels , David M. Palmer , Scott D. Barthelmy , Carlo Graziani , John K. Cannizzo

Characterizing the evolution of the faint end of the cluster red sequence (RS) galaxy luminosity function (GLF) with redshift is a milestone in understanding galaxy evolution. However, the community is still divided in that respect,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-16 Nicolas Martinet , Florence Durret , Christophe Adami , Gregory Rudnick
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