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GRB Astrophysics in the Swift Era and Beyond

Gamma-ray Bursts (GRBs) are relativistic cosmological beacons of transient high energy radiation whose afterglows span the electromagnetic spectrum. Theoretical expectations of correlated neutrino emission position GRBs at an astrophysical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-11-05 Michael Stamatikos

Six Years of Gamma Ray Burst Observations with BeppoSAX

I give a summary of the prompt X-/gamma-ray detections of Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) with the BeppoSAX satellite and discuss some significant results obtained from the study of the prompt emission of these GRBs obtained with the BeppoSAX Gamma…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Filippo Frontera

COBE Observations of the Microwave Counterparts of Gamma Ray Bursts

We have used the data from the COBE satellite to search for delayed microwave emission (31 - 90 GHz) from Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs). The large $7^\circ$ beam of COBE is well matched to the large positional uncertainties in the GRB locations,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 R. K. Schaefer , S. Ali , M. Limon , L. Piccirillo

GECAM Localization of High Energy Transients and the Systematic Error

Gravitational wave high-energy Electromagnetic Counterpart All-sky Monitor (GECAM) is a pair of microsatellites (i.e. GECAM-A and GECAM-B) dedicated to monitoring gamma-ray transients including gravitational waves high-energy…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-08 Yi Zhao , Wang-Chen Xue , Shao-Lin Xiong , Yuan-Hao Wang , Jia-Cong Liu , Qi Liuo , Yan-Qiu Zhang , Jian-Chao Sun , Xiao-Yun Zhao , Ce Cai , Shuo Xiao , Yue Huang , Xiao-Bo Li , Zhen Zhang , Jin-Yuan Liao , Sheng Yang , Rui Qiao , Dong-Ya Guo , Chao Zheng , Qi-Bin Yi , Sheng-Lun Xie , Zhi-Wei Guo , Chao-Yang Li , Chen-Wei Wang , Wen-Jun Tan , Yue Wang , Wen-Xi Peng , Shi-Jie Zheng , Jian-Jian He , Ping Wang , Jin Wang , Xiang Ma , Xin-Ying Song , Hong-Mei Zhang , Bing Li , Peng Zhang , Hong Wu , Yan-Qi Du , Jing Liang , Guo-Ying Zhao , Xin-Qiao Li , Xiang-Yang Wen , Zheng-Hua An , Xi-Lei Sun , Yan-Bing Xu , Fan Zhang , Da-Li Zhang , Ke Gong , Ya-Qing Liu , Xiao-Hua Liang , Xiao-Jing Liu , Min Gao , Jin-Zhou Wang , Li-Ming Song , Gang Chen , Ke-Ke Zhang , Xing-Bo Han , Hai-Yan Wu , Tai Hu , Hao Geng , Fang-Jun Lu , Shu Zhang , Shuang-Nan Zhang , Gao-Peng Lu , Ming Zeng , Heng Yu

Detection capability of Ultra-Long Gamma-Ray Bursts with the ECLAIRs telescope aboard the SVOM mission

Ultra-long gamma-ray bursts (ULGRBs) have very atypical durations of more than 2000 seconds. Even if their origins are discussed, the SVOM mission with its soft gamma-ray telescope ECLAIRs could detect ULGRBs and increase the sample of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-30 Nicolas Dagoneau , Stéphane Schanne , Alexandra Gros , Bertrand Cordier

Future Perspectives for Gamma-ray Burst Detection from Space

Since their first discovery in the late 1960s, Gamma-ray bursts have attracted an exponentially growing interest from the international community due to their central role in the most highly debated open questions of the modern research of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-19 Enrico Bozzo , Lorenzo Amati , Wayne Baumgartner , Tzu-Ching Chang , Bertrand Cordier , Nicolas De Angelis , Akihiro Doi , Marco Feroci , Cynthia Froning , Jessica Gaskin , Adam Goldstein , Diego Götz , Jon E. Grove , Sylvain Guiriec , Margarita Hernanz , C. Michelle Hui , Peter Jenke , Daniel Kocevski , Merlin Kole , Chryssa Kouveliotou , Thomas Maccarone , Mark L. McConnell , Hideo Matsuhara , Paul O'Brien , Nicolas Produit , Paul S. Ray , Peter Roming , Andrea Santangelo , Michael Seiffert , Hui Sun , Alexander van der Horst , Peter Veres , Jianyan Wei , Nicholas White , Colleen Wilson-Hodge , Daisuke Yonetoku , Weimin Yuan , Shuang-Nan Zhang

Gamma-Ray Burst observations by the high-energy charged particle detector on board the CSES-01 satellite between 2019 and 2021

In this paper we report the detection of five strong Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) by the High-Energy Particle Detector (HEPD-01) mounted on board the China Seismo-Electromagnetic Satellite (CSES-01), operational since 2018 on a Sun-synchronous…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-26 Francesco Palma , Matteo Martucci , Coralie Neubüser , Alessandro Sotgiu , Francesco Maria Follega , Pietro Ubertini , Angela Bazzano , James Rodi , Roberto Ammendola , Davide Badoni , Simona Bartocci , Roberto Battiston , Stefania Beolè , Igor Bertello , William Jerome Burger , Donatella Campana , Antonio Cicone , Piero Cipollone , Silvia Coli , Livio Conti , Andrea Contin , Marco Cristoforetti , Giulia D'Angelo , Fabrizio De Angelis , Cinzia De Donato , Cristian De Santis , Piero Diego , Andrea Di Luca , Emiliano Fiorenza , Giuseppe Gebbia , Roberto Iuppa , Alessandro Lega , Mauro Lolli , Bruno Martino , Giuseppe Masciantonio , Matteo Mergè , Marco Mese , Alfredo Morbidini , Francesco Nozzoli , Fabrizio Nuccilli , Alberto Oliva , Giuseppe Osteria , Federico Palmonari , Beatrice Panico , Emanuele Papini , Alexandra Parmentier , Stefania Perciballi , Francesco Perfetto , Alessio Perinelli , Piergiorgio Picozza , Mirko Piersanti , Michele Pozzato , Gianmaria Rebustini , Dario Recchiuti , Ester Ricci , Marco Ricci , Sergio Bruno Ricciarini , Andrea Russi , Zouleikha Sahnoun , Umberto Savino , Valentina Scotti , Xuhui Shen , Roberta Sparvoli , Silvia Tofani , Nello Vertolli , Veronica Vilona , Vincenzo Vitale , Ugo Zannoni , Zhima Zeren , Simona Zoffoli , Paolo Zuccon

Localization of Gamma-Ray Bursts using the Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor

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,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 V. Connaughton , M. S. Briggs , A. Goldstein , C. A. Meegan , W. S. Paciesas , R. D. Preece , C. A. Wilson-Hodge , M. H. Gibby , J. Greiner , D. Gruber , P. Jenke , R. M. Kippen , V. Pelassa , S. Xiong , H. -F. Yu , P. N. Bhat , J. M. Burgess , D. Byrne , G. Fitzpatrick , S. Foley , M. M. Giles , S. Guiriec , A. J. van der Horst , A. von Kienlin , S. McBreen , S. McGlynn , D. Tierney , B. -B. Zhang

Catching TeV emission from GRB 221009A and alike with LHAASO, LACT and SWGO

Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are the most energetic electromagnetic explosions in the universe. Recently, the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) reported the breakthrough observation of GRB 221009A with gamma-ray energies beyond…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-10 Yunlei Huang , Sujie Lin , Soebur Razzaque , Lili Yang , Zijie Huang

Gamma Ray Bursts Scaling Relations to test cosmological models

Gamma ray burst (GRBs) can be used to constrain cosmological parameters from medium up to very high redshift. These powerful systems could be the further reliable distance indicators after SNeIa supernovae. We consider GRBs samples to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-07-02 S. Capozziello , L. Consiglio , M. De Laurentis , G. De Rosa , C. Perna , D. Vivolo

Science Case for a Wide Field-of-View Very-High-Energy Gamma-Ray Observatory in the Southern Hemisphere

We outline the science motivation for SGSO, the Southern Gamma-Ray Survey Observatory. SGSO will be a next-generation wide field-of-view gamma-ray survey instrument, sensitive to gamma-rays in the energy range from 100 GeV to hundreds of…

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Study of SVOM/ECLAIRs inhomogeneities in the detection plane below 8 keV and their mitigation for the trigger performances

The Space-based multi-band astronomical Variable Objects Monitor (SVOM) is a Chinese-French mission dedicated to the study of the transient sky. It is scheduled to start operations in 2024. ECLAIRs is a coded-mask telescope with a large…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-25 Wenjin Xie , Bertrand Cordier , Nicolas Dagoneau , Stéphane Schanne , Jean-Luc Atteia , Laurent Bouchet , Olivier Godet

The Swift X-ray Telescope

The Swift Gamma-Ray Explorer is designed to make prompt multiwavelength observations of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) and GRB afterglows. The X-ray Telescope (XRT) enables Swift to determine GRB positions with a few arcseconds accuracy within 100…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 David N. Burrows , J. E. Hill , J. A. Nousek , J. A. Kennea , A. Wells , J. P. Osborne , A. F. Abbey , A. Beardmore , K Mukerjee , A. D. T. Short , G. Chincarini , S. Campana , O. Citterio , A. Moretti , C. Pagani , G. Tagliaferri , P. Giommi , M. Capalbi , F. Tamburelli , L. Angelini , G. Cusumano , H. W. Braeuninger , W. Burkert , G. D. Hartner

GRID: a Student Project to Monitor the Transient Gamma-Ray Sky in the Multi-Messenger Astronomy Era

The Gamma-Ray Integrated Detectors (GRID) is a space mission concept dedicated to monitoring the transient gamma-ray sky in the energy range from 10 keV to 2 MeV using scintillation detectors onboard CubeSats in low Earth orbits. The…

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Recent Results on Gamma-Ray Bursts with the Bepposax Satellite

Recent results on Gamma-Ray Bursts obtained with the X-ray Astronomy satellite BeppoSAX are reviewed. Main emphasis is given to the GRBs simultaneously detected with the Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor (40-700 keV) and the Wide Field Cameras…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Filippo Frontera

Gamma-Ray Bursts Overview

It is now more than 40 years since the discovery of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and in the last two decades there has been major progress in the observations of bursts, the afterglows and their host galaxies. This recent progress has been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-03-24 B. McBreen , S. Foley , L. Hanlon

Gamma-ray bursts as tracers of star-formation rate and metallicity evolution with THESEUS

The class of long gamma-ray bursts (LGRBs) is associated with the collapse of the most massive stars, making them a tool to investigate star formation in the early Universe. Furthermore, thanks to their exceptional brightness, LGRB…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-07 S. D. Vergani

Development of a micro-satellite TSUBAME for X-ray polarimetry of GRBs

TSUBAME is a micro-satellite that the students of Tokyo Institute of Technology took the lead to develop for measuring hard X-ray polarization of Gamma-Ray Bursts(GRBs) in order to reveal the nature of the central engine of GRBs. TSUBAME…

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Gamma-Ray Burst Detection with INTEGRAL/SPI

The spectrometer SPI, one of the two main instruments of the INTEGRAL spacecraft, has strong capabilities in the field of Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) detections. In its 16 deg field of view (FoV) SPI is able to trigger and to localize GRBs with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andreas von Kienlin , Nikolas Arend , Giselher Lichti , Andrew Strong , Paul Connell

Monitoring Gamma Ray Bursts with the Zir\`e instrument onboard the NUSES space mission

The Zir\`e experiment onboard NUSES space mission has several science goals, including the measurements of charged particles and light nuclei from few up to hundreds of MeVs, for the study of low-energy cosmic rays, space weather phenomena,…

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