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We present broad-band radio observations of the afterglow of GRB000301C, spanning from 1.4 to 350 GHz for the period of 3 to 83 days after the burst. This radio data, in addition to measurements at the optical bands, suggest that the…

We present a comprehensive multiwavelength analysis of the bright, long duration gamma-ray burst GRB 070125, comprised of observations in $\gamma$-ray, X-ray, optical, millimeter and centimeter wavebands. Simultaneous fits to the optical…

The steepening (break) of the power-law fall-off observed in the optical emission of some GRB afterglows at epoch ~1 day is often attributed to a collimated outflow (jet), undergoing lateral spreading. Wider opening GRB ejecta with a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 A. Panaitescu

A correlation is presented between the pulse lag and the jet-break time for seven BATSE gamma-ray bursts with known redshifts. This is, to our best knowledge, the first known direct tight correlation between a property of the gamma-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jay D. Salmonson , Titus J. Galama

Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are fascinating events due to their panchromatic nature. Their afterglow emission is observed from sub-TeV energies to radio wavelengths. We investigate GRBs that present an optical plateau, leveraging on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-06 M. G. Dainotti , S. Livermore , D. A. Kann , L. Li , S. Oates , S. Yi , B. Zhang , B. Gendre , B. Cenko , N. Fraija

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) associated with gravitational wave events are, and will likely continue to be, viewed at a larger inclination than GRBs without gravitational wave detections. As demonstrated by the afterglow of GW170817, this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-01 Geoffrey Ryan , Hendrik van Eerten , Luigi Piro , Eleonora Troja

If gamma-ray burst (GRB) emission is strongly collimated then GRBs occur throughout the Universe at a rate much higher than is detected. Since the emission from the optical afterglow is thought to be more isotropic than the gamma-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Neal Dalal , Kim Griest , Jason Pruet

Using deep and high-cadence gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglow data from RATIR, we observe a sharp and achromatic light curve break 12.6 days after the GRB, accompanied by an approximately achromatic bump. Fitting of the optical, NIR, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-06 Robert Strausbaugh , Nathaniel Butler , William H. Lee , Eleonora Troja , Alan M. Watson

When a massive star explodes as a Gamma Ray Burst information about this explosion is retained in the properties of the prompt and afterglow emission. We report on new relationships between the prompt and X-ray afterglow emission of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Dirk Grupe , John A. Nousek , Peter Veres , Binbin Zhang , Neil Gehrels

Context: The link between the duration of GRBs and the nature of their progenitors remains disputed. Short bursts (with durations of less than ~2 s) are less frequently observed, technically more difficult to localize, and exhibit…

The interaction between the relativistic jet and the circumburst medium produces a multiwavelength afterglow of a gamma-ray burst (GRBs). In this work, we present multiwavelength properties of GRB~250101A based on the observations of Swift,…

Early X-ray emission of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) traces the transition between the prompt emission and the afterglow radiation, and its rapid flux decline is often interpreted as the tail of the prompt emission. As such, it can offer…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-08 Annarita Ierardi , Gor Oganesyan , Stefano Ascenzi , Marica Branchesi , Biswajit Banerjee , Samuele Ronchini

We report the results of our observing campaign on GRB140903A, a nearby (z=0.351) short duration (T90~0.3 s) gamma-ray burst discovered by Swift. We monitored the X-ray afterglow with Chandra up to 21 days after the burst, and detected a…

The conventional derivation of the gamma-ray burst afterglow jet break time uses only the blast wave fluid Lorentz factor and therefore leads to an achromatic break. We show that in general gamma-ray burst afterglow jet breaks are chromatic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 H. J. van Eerten , Z. Meliani , R. A. M. J. Wijers , R. Keppens

A class of long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) with a plateau phase in their X-ray afterglows obeys a three-dimensional (3D) relation (Dainotti et al. 2016), between the rest-frame time at the end of the plateau, Ta, its corresponding X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-01 Maria Dainotti , Christian Gilbertson , Sergey Postnikov , Shigehiro Nagataki , Richard Willingale

We present an analysis of the unusual optical light curve of the gamma-ray burst GRB 081029, a long-soft burst with a redshift of z = 3.8479. We combine X-ray and optical observations from the Swift X-Ray Telescope and the Swift…

Gamma-ray bursts (GRB) are short and intense bursts of $\sim$100 keV$-$1MeV photons, usually followed by long-lasting decaying afterglow emission in a wide range of electromagnetic wavelengths from radio to X-ray and, sometimes, even to GeV…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-05 Yun-Wei Yu , He Gao , Fa-Yin Wang , Bin-Bin Zhang

Regardless of their different types of progenitors and central engines, gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) were always assumed to be standalone systems after they formed. Little attention has been paid to the possibility that a stellar companion can…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-10 Ze-Cheng Zou , Bin-Bin Zhang , Yong-Feng Huang , Xiao-Hong Zhao

Direct multi-dimensional numerical simulation is the most reliable approach for calculating the fluid dynamics and observational signatures of relativistic jets in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). We present a two-dimensional relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-05-29 Weiqun Zhang , Andrew MacFadyen

Gamma-ray burst (GRB) prompt emission is highly beamed, and understanding the jet geometry and beaming configuration can provide information on the poorly understood central engine and circum-burst environment. Prior to the advent of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-21 Sylvia Biscoveanu , Eric Thrane , Salvatore Vitale