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The statistical tests - done by the authors - are surveyed, which verify the null-hypothesis of the intrinsic randomness in the angular distribution of gamma-ray bursts collected at BATSE Catalog. The tests use the counts-in-cells method,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 A. Meszaros , Z. Bagoly , L. G. Balazs , I. Horvath , R. Vavrek

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most powerful electromagnetic outbursts in the Universe and emit a vast amount of their energy in the form of gamma rays. Their duration is extremely short on cosmic timescales, but they show a wealth of time…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-11 Else Magnus , Jannes Loonen , Rose S. Stanley , Paul Coppin , Krijn D. de Vries , Nick van Eijndhoven

We investigate the angular distribution of the $\gamma$-ray bursts in the publicly available BATSE catalogue, using the measures of burst brightness $B$ and short time scale ($\simless$ 0.3 s) variability $V$ which we introduced earlier. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-08 J. M. Quashnock , D. Q. Lamb

The Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) has detected over 1400 Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) since it began science operations in July, 2008. We use a subset of over 300 GRBs localized by instruments such as Swift, the Fermi Large Area Telescope,…

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most powerful explosions in the universe and probe physics under extreme conditions. GRBs divide into two classes, of short and long duration, thought to originate from different types of progenitor systems.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 LAT Collaboration

The unrivalled, extreme luminosities of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) make them the favored beacons for sampling the high redshift Universe. To employ GRBs to study the cosmic terrain -- e.g., star and galaxy formation history -- GRB luminosities…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. P. Norris

The small angular scale fluctuations of the (on large scale) isotropic gamma-ray background (IGRB) carry information about the presence of unresolved source classes. A guaranteed contribution to the IGRB is expected from the unresolved…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 A. Cuoco , T. Linden , M. N. Mazziotta , J. M. Siegal-Gaskins , Vincenzo Vitale , E. Komatsu

Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) are among the most powerful sources in the Universe: they emit up to 10^54 erg in the hard X-ray band in few tens of seconds. The cosmological origin of GRBs has been confirmed by several spectroscopic measurements…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-19 G. Ghirlanda , G. Ghisellini , C. Firmani

Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) are bright, brief flashes of high energy photons that have fascinated scientists for 30 years. They come in two classes: long (>2 s), softspectrum bursts and short, hard events. The major progress to date on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-19 N. Gehrels

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…

We show that the brighter gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) in the BATSE 3B catalog concentrate slightly toward the Galactic plane and center, suggesting that at least some bursts originate within the Galaxy. To develop an interpretation of this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Bennett Link , Richard I. Epstein

The spatial distribution of short Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) in their host galaxies provide us an opportunity to investigate their origins. Based on the currently observed distribution of short GRBs relative to their host galaxies, we obtain…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 Xiao-Hong Cui , Junichi Aoi , Shigehiro Nagataki , Ren-Xin Xu

In an effort to understand the puzzle of classifying gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), we perform a systematic study of {\it Swift} GRBs and investigate several short GRB issues. Though short GRBs have a short ($\lesssim2$ s) prompt duration as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-08-24 Lang Shao , Zi-Gao Dai , Yi-Zhong Fan , Fu-Wen Zhang , Zhi-Ping Jin , Da-Ming Wei

Context. Research over the past three decades has revolutionized cosmology while supporting the standard cosmological model. However, the cosmological principle of Universal homogeneity and isotropy has always been in question, since…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-08 Istvan Horvath , Jon Hakkila , Zsolt Bagoly

It is known that some observed gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are produced at cosmological distances and that the GRB production rate may follow the star formation rate. We model the BATSE-detected intensity distribution of long GRBs in order to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. R. Lin , S. N. Zhang , T. P. Li

We presented the results of several statistical tests of the randomness in the angular sky-distribution of gamma-ray bursts in BATSE Catalog. Thirteen different tests were presented based on Voronoi tesselation, Minimal spanning tree and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-03 L. G. Balazs , I. Horvath , R. Vavrek , Z. Bagoly , A. Meszaros

We present a systematic search for short-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) in the local Universe based on 14 years of observations with the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory. We cross-correlate the GRB positions with the GLADE catalogue of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-12 S. Dichiara , E. Troja , B. O'Connor , F. E. Marshall , P. Beniamini , J. K. Cannizzo , A. Y. Lien , T. Sakamoto

We predict the redshift distribution of long Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) with Monte Carlo simulations. Our improved analysis constrains free parameters with three kinds of observation: (i) the log(N)-log(P) diagram of BATSE bursts; (ii) the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 F. Daigne , E. M. Rossi , R. Mochkovitch

Anomalies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) maps have been widely acquainted nowadays from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) satellite to the Planck satellite. One of the anomalies is a multipole alignment from $l=2$ to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-06-30 Lixiong Gan , Yuan-Chuan Zou , Zi-Gao Dai

We investigate whether Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) from the Current BATSE Catalog have been affected by weak lensing by the nearby large scale structure. The redshift distribution of GRBs is believed to be broad, extending to z~5, so most…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-19 Liliya L. R. Williams , Natalie Frey