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Recent evidence appears to link gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) to star-forming regions in galaxies at cosmological distances. If short-lived massive stars are the progenitors of GRBs, the rate of events per unit cosmological volume should be an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Cristiano Porciani , Piero Madau

Since the early 1990s Gamma Ray Bursts have been accepted to be of extra-galactic origin due to the isotropic distribution observed by BATSE and the redshifts observed via absorption line spectroscopy. Nevertheless, upon further examination…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-01-23 J. C. Tello , A. J. Castro-Tirado , J. Gorosabel , D. Pérez-Ramírez , S. Guziy , R. Sánchez-Ramírez , M. Jelínek , P. Veres , Z. Bagoly

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) can be probes of the early universe, but currently, only 26% of GRBs observed by the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory GRBs have known redshifts ($z$) due to observational limitations. To address this, we estimated the…

In principle, the angular anisotropy in the extragalactic gamma-ray background (EGRB) places severe constraints upon putative populations of unresolved gamma-ray point sources. Existing estimates of the EGRB anisotropy have been constructed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-02 Avery E. Broderick , Christoph Pfrommer , Ewald Puchwein , Philip Chang , Kendrick M. Smith

Aims: In this paper we study the main spectral and temporal properties of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) observed by Fermi/GBM. We investigate these key properties of GRBs in the rest-frame of the progenitor and test for possible intra-parameter…

There still exists the possibility that the phenomenon of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is a mixture of events of different nature, even within the class of long (>2 s) bursts. We try to put statistical constraints on a possible non-cosmological…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ya. Tikhomirova , B. E. Stern , R. Svensson

A significant fraction of cosmological gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are characterised by a fast rise and exponential decay (FRED) temporal structure. This is not a distinctive feature of this class, since it is observed in many Galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-21 A. Clerici , C. Guidorzi , V. La Parola

Popular models for the origin of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) include short-lived massive stars as the progenitors of the fireballs. Hence the redshift distribution of GRBs should track the cosmic star formation rate of massive stars accurately.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Andrew W. Blain , Priyamvada Natarajan

Ever since the insightful analysis of the durations of GRBs by [Kouveliotou:93], GRBs have most often been classified into two populations: "short bursts" (shorter than 2.0 seconds) and "long bursts" (longer than 2.0 seconds). However,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-10 Hannachi Zitouni , Nidhal Guessoum , Khalid Madjid ALQassimi , Omar Alaryani

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration radio signals from unknown cosmic origin. Many models associate FRBs with high-energy astrophysical objects such as magnetars. In this attempt to find counterparts to FRBs, we explore…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-07 Halim Ashkar , Mehdi El Bouhaddouti , Stephen Fegan , Fabian Schüssler

We present the results of the spectral analysis of a sample of short bright $\gamma$--ray bursts (GRB) detected by BATSE and compare them with the average and time resolved spectral properties of long bright bursts. While the spectral…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Ghirlanda , G. Ghisellini , A. Celotti

The detection of six Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) has recently been reported. FRBs are short duration ($\sim$ 1 ms), highly dispersed radio pulses from astronomical sources. The physical interpretation for the FRBs remains unclear but is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Divya Palaniswamy , Randall B. Wayth , Cathryn M. Trott , Jamie N. McCallum , Steven J. Tingay , Cormac Reynolds

We present a comprehensive study to measure the locations of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) relative to their host galaxies. In total, we find the offsets of 20 long-duration GRBs from their apparent host galaxy centers utilizing ground-based…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. S. Bloom , S. R. Kulkarni , S. G. Djorgovski

Swift's remarkable ability to quickly localize gamma-ray bursts has led to the accumulation of a sizable burst sample for which both angular locations and redshifts are measured. This sample has become large enough that it can potentially…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-07-21 I. Horvath , Z. Bagoly , J. Hakkila , L. V. Toth

The present common view about GRB origin is related to cosmology. There are two evidences in favour of this interpretation. The first is connected with statistics, the second is based on measurements of the redshifts in the GRB optical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan

Gamma ray bursts (GRBs) are short and intense pulses of $\gamma$-rays arriving from random directions in the sky. Several years ago Amelino-Camelia et al. pointed out that a comparison of time of arrival of photons at different energies…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Tsvi Piran

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are divided into short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs) and long gamma-ray bursts (LGRBs) based on the bimodal distribution of their durations. LGRBs and SGRBs are typically characterized by different statistical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-01 Yun Wang , Lu-Yao Jiang , Jia Ren

In order to better understand the physical origin of short duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), we perform time-resolved spectral analysis on a sample of 70 pulses in 68 short GRBs with burst duration $T_{90}\lesssim2$ s detected by the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-22 Hüsne Dereli-Bégué , Asaf Pe'er , Felix Ryde

We analyze the properties of a sample of long gamma-ray bursts (LGRBs) detected by the Fermi satellite that have a spectroscopic redshift and good follow-up coverage at both X-ray and optical/nIR wavelengths. The evolution of LGRB…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-31 B. P. Gompertz , A. S. Fruchter , A. Pe'er

The empirical classification of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) is based on their distribution in the plane of burst duration and spectral hardness. Two distinct distributions, long-soft and short-hard bursts, are observed in this plane, forming…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-15 Sreelakshmi P Chakyar , Sarath Prabhavu J , Lekshmi Resmi