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The sky distribution of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) has been intensively studied by various groups for more than two decades. Most of these studies test the isotropy of GRBs based on their sky number density distribution. In this work we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-25 Jakub Ripa , Arman Shafieloo

A sample of 286 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) detected by the Swift satellite and 358 GRBs detected by the RHESSI satellite are studied statistically. Previously published articles, based on the BATSE GRB Catalog, claimed the existence of an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 J. Ripa , D. Huja , A. Meszaros , R. Hudec , W. Hajdas , C. Wigger

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

Using a wavelet decomposition technique, we have extracted the Hurst exponent for a sample of 46 long and 22 short Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) detected by the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) aboard the Fermi satellite. This exponent is a scaling…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Glen MacLachlan , Ashwin Shenoy , Eda Sonbas , Rob Coyne , Kalvir Dhuga , Ali Eskandarian , Leonard Maximon , William Parke

We have used the 2- year Differential Microwave Radiometer data from the COsmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite to systematically search for millimetric (31 - 90 GHz) emission from the Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) in the Burst And Transient…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 S. Ali , R. K. Schaefer , M. Limon , L. Piccirillo

Since its early phases of operation, the AGILE satellite is observing Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) over an energy range potentially spanning six orders of magnitude. In the hard X-ray band the SuperAGILE imager provides localization of about one…

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…

A recent spectrum of the optical afterglow of GRB 970508 suggests that gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are cosmological in origin and it is of crucial importance to derive an accurate distance to each burst. If GRBs occur near their host galaxies…

We present a homogeneous X-ray analysis of all 318 Gamma Ray Bursts detected by the X-ray Telescope on the Swift satellite up to 2008 July 23; this represents the largest sample of X-ray GRB data published to date. In Sections 2--3 we…

Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) have been conventionally bifurcated into two distinct categories dubbed "short" and "long", depending on whether their durations are less than or greater than two seconds respectively. However, many authors have…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-01 Soham Kulkarni , Shantanu Desai

Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs), due to their high luminosities are detected up to redshift 10, and thus have the potential to be vital cosmological probes of early processes in the universe. Fulfilling this potential requires a large sample of…

A Band function has become the standard spectral function used to describe the prompt emission spectra of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). However, deviations from this function have previously been observed in GRBs detected by BATSE and in…

A systematic search for cosmic gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and other short hard X-ray events in the archival data from the IBIS/ISGRI telescope of the INTEGRAL observatory over 2003-2018 has been carried out. Seven previously unknown GRBs have…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-26 I. V. Chelovekov , S. A. Grebenev , A. S. Pozanenko , P. Yu. Minaev

The hard X-ray polarimeter POLAR aims to measure the linear polarization of the 50-500 keV photons arriving from the prompt emission of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). The position in the sky of the detected GRBs is needed to determine their level…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-17 E. Suarez-Garcia , D. Haas , W. Hajdas , G. Lamanna , C. Lechanoine-Leluc , R. Marcinkowski , A. Mtchedlishvili , S. Orsi , M. Pohl , N. Produit , D. Rapin , D. Rybka , J. -P. Vialle

Detection of short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs) is critically important for the research of compact object mergers and multi-messenger astrophysics, but a significant part of SGRBs fall below the trigger threshold of GRB detectors, and thus are…

Two classes of gamma-ray bursts have been identified in the BATSE catalogs characterized by durations shorter and longer than about 2 seconds. There are, however, some indications for the existence of a third type of burst. Swift satellite…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-07-20 I. Horvath , L. G. Balazs , Z. Bagoly , J. Kelemen , P. Veres , G. Tusnady

Very few detections have been made of optical flashes contemporaneous with prompt high-energy emission from a gamma-ray burst (GRB). In this work, we present and analyze light curves of GRB-associated optical flashes and afterglows from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-28 Rahul Jayaraman , Michael Fausnaugh , George R. Ricker , Roland Vanderspek

Luminosity function and event rate of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are easily biased by the instrument and selection effects. We select 115 Fermi/GBM GRBs with good spectra fitted by a smoothly broken power-law function. The $\tau$-statistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-23 Yang Liu , Zhi-Bin Zhang , Xiao-Fei Dong , Long-Biao Li , Xiu-Yun Du

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), particularly those detected by wide-field instruments such as the Fermi/GBM, pose a challenge for optical follow-up due to their large initial localisation regions, leaving many GRBs without identified afterglows.…

WXM gives GRB localizations in instrument coordinates. WXM localizations must be converted to celestial coordinates using spacecraft aspect information obtained by the optical cameras on HETE. We must therefore accurately determine the…

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