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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

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

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

A simple physical model for long-duration gamma ray bursts (GRBs) is used to fit the redshift (z) and the jet opening-angle distributions measured with earlier GRB missions and with Swift. The effect of different sensitivities for GRB…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Truong Le , Charles D. Dermer

We derive the luminosity function and redshift distribution of short Gamma Ray Bursts (SGRBs) using (i) all the available observer-frame constraints (i.e. peak flux, fluence, peak energy and duration distributions) of the large population…

The cosmic evolution of gamma-ray burst (GRB) luminosity is essential for revealing the GRB physics and for using GRBs as cosmological probes. We investigate the luminosity evolution of long GRBs with a large sample of 258 {\em Swift}/BAT…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-06 Can-Min Deng , Xiang-Gao Wang , Bei-Bei Guo , Rui-Jing Lu , Yuan-Zhu Wang , Jun-Jie Wei , Xue-Feng Wu , En-Wei Liang

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

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

While the available set of Gamma-ray Burst (GRB) data with known redshift is currently limited, a much larger set of GRB data without redshift is available from different instruments. This data includes well-measured prompt gamma-ray flux…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-25 Tamador Aldowma , Soebur Razzaque

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

Luminosity correlations of long Gamma-ray bursts (GRB) are extensively proposed as an effective complementarity to trace the Hubble diagram of Universe at high redshifts, which is of great importance to explore properties of dark energy.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-22 Guo-Jian Wang , Hai Yu , Zheng-Xiang Li , Jun-Qing Xia , Zong-Hong Zhu

In this paper, we compile a \emph{Fermi} sample of the \emph{long} GRB observations from 15 years of GBM catalogue with identified redshift, in which the GOLD sample contains 123 long GRBs at $z\le5.6$ and the FULL sample contains 151 long…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-04 Huifeng Wang , Nan Liang

Starting from the Swift sample we define a complete sub-sample of 58 bright long Gamma Ray Bursts (GRB), 55 of them (95%) with a redshift determination, in order to characterize their properties. Our sample (BAT6) allows us to study the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-09-11 R. Salvaterra , S. Campana , S. Covino , P. D'Avanzo , G. Ghirlanda , G. Ghisellini , A. Melandi , G. Tagliaferri , L. Nava , S. Vergani

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

Using 220 Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) redshifts and luminosities derived from the luminosity-variability relationship of Fenimore & Ramirez-Ruiz (2000), we show that there exists a significant correlation between the GRB luminosity and redshift.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Nicole M. Lloyd-Ronning , Chris L. Fryer , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

Prompted by various analyses of long (Type II) GRB rates and their relationship to the cosmic star-formation history, metallicity and luminosity function evolution, we systematically analyze these effects with a Monte Carlo code. We test…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-19 Francisco J. Virgili , Bing Zhang , Kentaro Nagamine , Jun-Hwan Choi

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are generally categorized into long and short bursts based on their duration ($T_{90}$). Recently, it has been proposed that GRBs can also be classified into type I (merger) and type II (collapsar) bursts based on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-26 Yan-Kun Qu , Zhong-Xiao Man , Yu-Peng Yang , Shuang-Xi Yi , Fa-Yin Wang

The principal goal of this paper is to use attempts at reconciling the Swift long gamma-ray bursts (LGRBs) with the star formation history (SFH) to compare the predictions of $\Lambda$CDM with those in the $R_{\rm h}=ct$ Universe. In the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Jun-Jie Wei , Xue-Feng Wu , Fulvio Melia , Da-Ming Wei , Long-Long Feng

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have emerged as powerful cosmological probes for exploring the distant Universe, owing to their immense luminosities and detectability at high redshifts. Several empirical correlations have been established,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-13 T. K. M. Aldowma , S. Razzaque , R. Martinelli , R. Gupta , F. Longo , N. Omodei , N. Di Lalla , J. L. Racusin , A. H. Airasca

Long duration Gamma-Ray Bursts (LGRBs) may serve as standard candles to constrain cosmological parameters by probing the Hubble diagram well beyond the range of redshift currently accessible using type-Ia supernovae. The standardization of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-12-30 F. Fana Dirirsa , S. Razzaque , F. Piron , M. Arimoto , M. Axelsson , D. Kocevski , F. Longo , M. Ohno , S. Zhu