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We demonstrate that distinguishable gamma-ray burst pulses exhibit similar behaviors as evidenced by correlations among the observable pulse properties of duration, peak luminosity, fluence, spectral hardness, energy-dependent lag, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Jon Hakkila , Robert D. Preece

Long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have been discussed as a potential tool to probe the cosmic star formation rate (SFR) for a long time. Some studies found an enhancement in the GRB rate relative to the galaxy-inferred SFR at high redshifts,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-26 Guang-Xuan Lan , Jun-Jie Wei , Ye Li , Hou-Dun Zeng , Xue-Feng Wu

We present the optical luminosity function (LF) of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) estimated from a uniform sample of 58 GRBs from observations with the Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment III (ROTSE-III). Our GRB sample is divided into two…

We present a possible Cepheid-like luminosity estimator for the long gamma-ray bursts based on the variability of their light curves. To construct the luminosity estimator, we use CGRO/BATSE data for 13 bursts, Wind/KONUS data for 5 bursts,…

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…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-29 Wan-Kai Wang , Wei Xie , Zhi-Fu Gao , Shuo Xiao , Ai-Jun Dong , Bin Zhang , Qi-Jun Zhi

We studied the optical afterglows of the 24 pre-Swift Gamma-Ray Bursts with known spectroscopic redshift and published estimates of the optical extinction in the source frame. We find an unexpected clustering of the optical afterglow…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Nardini , G. Ghisellini , G. Ghirlanda , F. Tavecchio , C. Firmani , D. Lazzati

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

We constrain the isotropic luminosity function (LF) and formation rate of long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) by fitting models 'jointly' to both the observed differential peak flux and redshift distributions. We find evidence supporting an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Firmani , V. Avila-Reese , G. Ghisellini , A. V. Tutukov

Using 72 Short Gamma Ray Bursts (SGRBs) with well determined spectral data observed by BATSE, we determine their redshift and the luminosity by applying $E_p$--$L_p$ correlation for SGRBs found by \cite{tsutsui13}. For 53 SGRBs with the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-27 Daisuke Yonetoku , Takashi Nakamura , Tatsuya Sawano , Keitaro Takahashi , Asuka Toyanago

Timing analysis is a powerful tool with which to shed light on the still obscure emission physics and geometry of the prompt emission of GRBs. Fourier power density spectra (PDS) characterise time series as stochastic processes and can be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-20 C. Guidorzi , S. Dichiara , L. Amati

A comprehensive temporal analysis has been performed on the 319 brightest GRBs with T90>2s from the BATSE current catalog. The rise times, fall times, full-widths at half maximum (FWHM), pulse amplitudes and pulse areas were measured and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 F. Quilligan , B. McBreen , L. Hanlon , S. McBreen , K. J. Hurley , D. Watson

Since the launch of the highly successful and ongoing Swift mission, the field of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) has undergone a revolution. The arcsecond GRB localizations available within just a few minutes of the GRB alert has signified the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-09-26 Patricia Schady

Gamma-ray Bursts (GRBs) are valuable probes of cosmic star formation reaching back into the epoch of reionization, and a large dataset with known redshifts ($z$) is an important ingredient for these studies. Usually, $z$ is measured using…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-13 Dhruv S. Bal , Aditya Narendra , Maria Giovanna Dainotti , Nikita S. Khatiya , Aleksander L. Lenart , Dieter H. Hartmann

The exact relationship between the long gamma-ray burst (LGRB) rate and the cosmic star formation rate (CSFR) is essential for using LGRBs as cosmological probes. In this work, we collect a large sample composed of 371 Swift LGRBs with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-18 Jing-Meng Hao , Liang Cao , You-Jun Lu , Qing-Bo Chu , Jun-Hui Fan , Ye-Fei Yuan , Yu-Hai Yuan

The highly variable and energetic pulsed emission of a long gamma-ray burst (GRB) is thought to originate from local, rapid dissipation of kinetic or magnetic energy within an ultra-relativistic jet launched by a newborn compact object,…

A temporal analysis has been performed on a sample of 100 bright gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) with T90<2s from the BATSE current catalog. The GRBs were denoised using a median filter and subjected to an automated pulse selection algorithm as an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. McBreen , F. Quilligan , B. McBreen , L. Hanlon , D. Watson

In this work, we analyze the most recent short gamma-ray burst (sGRB) sample detected by the \emph{Fermi} satellite to reassess the sGRB luminosity function and formation rate. Using the empirical redshift-luminosity correlation, we first…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-03 Chong-Yu Gao , Jun-Jie Wei , Hou-Dun Zeng

We compare the luminosity function and rate inferred from the BATSE short hard bursts (SHBs) peak flux distribution with the redshift and luminosity distributions of SHBs observed by Swift/HETE II. While the Swift/HETE II SHB sample is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Dafne Guetta , Tsvi Piran

We compare the luminosity function and rate inferred from the BATSE short hard bursts (SHBs) peak flux distribution with the redshift and luminosity distributions of SHBs observed by Swift/HETE II. The Swift/HETE II SHB sample is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Tsvi Piran , Dafne Guetta

Gamma-ray burst (GRBs) are the brightest events in the universe. For decades, astrophysicists have known about their cosmological nature. Every year, space missions such as Fermi and SWIFT detect hundreds of them. In spite of this large…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-10 Keneth Garcia-Cifuentes , Rosa L. Becerra , Fabio De Colle
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