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We summarize our understanding of millisecond radio bursts from an extragalactic population of sources. FRBs occur at an extraordinary rate, thousands per day over the entire sky with radiation energy densities at the source about ten…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-11 James M. Cordes , Shami Chatterjee

[Abridged] The study of short-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) experienced a complete revolution in recent years thanks to the discovery of the first afterglows and host galaxies in May 2005. These observations demonstrated that short GRBs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-17 E. Berger

We present the results of numerical simulations of the prompt emission of short-duration gamma-ray bursts. We consider emission from the relativistic jet, the mildly relativistic cocoon, and the non-relativistic shocked ambient material. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-18 Davide Lazzati , Diego Lopez-Camara , Matteo Cantiello , Brian J. Morsony , Rosalba Perna , Jared C. Workman

Recent observations support the suggestion that short-duration gamma-ray bursts are produced by compact star mergers. The X-ray flares discovered in two short gamma-ray bursts last much longer than the previously proposed postmerger energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Z. G. Dai , X. Y. Wang , X. F. Wu , B. Zhang

Soft-gamma-ray repeaters (SGRs) are galactic X-ray stars that emit numerous short-duration (about 0.1 s) bursts of hard X-rays during sporadic active periods. They are thought to be magnetars: strongly magnetized neutron stars with…

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are brief flashes of gamma rays, considered to be the most energetic explosive phenomena in the Universe. The emission from GRBs comprises a short (typically tens of seconds) and bright prompt emission, followed by a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-11-21 H. Abdalla R. Adam F. Aharonian F. Ait Benkhali E. O. Anguener M. Arakawa , C. Arcaro , C. Armand , H. Ashkar , M. Backes , V. Barbosa Martins , M. Barnard Y. Becherini , D. Berge , K. Bernloehr , E. Bissaldi , R. Blackwell , M. Boettcher , C. Boisson , J. Bolmont , S. Bonnefoy , J. Bregeon , M. Breuhaus , F. Brun , P. Brun , M. Bryan , M. Buechele , T. Bulik , T. Bylund , M. Capasso , S. Caroff , A. Carosi , S. Casanova , M. Cerruti , T. Chand , S. Chandra , A. Chen , S. Colafrancesco , M. Curylo , I. D. Davids , C. Deil , J. Devin , P. deWilt , L. Dirson , A. Djannati-Atai , A. Dmytriiev , A. Donath , V. Doroshenko , J. Dyks , K. Egberts , G. Emery , J. -P. Ernenwein , S. Eschbach , K. Feijen , S. Fegan , A. Fiasson , G. Fontaine , S. Funk , M. Fuessling , S. Gabici , Y. A. Gallant , F. Gate , G. Giavitto , L. Giunti , D. Glawion , J. F. Glicenstein , D. Gottschall , M. -H. Grondin , J. Hahn , M. Haupt , G. Heinzelmann , G. Henri , G. Hermann , J. A. Hinton , W. Hofmann , C. Hoischen , T. L. Holch , M. Holler , D. Horns , D. Huber , H. Iwasaki , M. Jamrozy , D. Jankowsky , F. Jankowsky , A. Jardin-Blicq , I. Jung-Richardt , M. A. Kastendieck , K. Katarzynski , M. Katsuragawa , U. Katz , D. Khangulyan , B. Khelifi , J. King , S. Klepser , W. Kluzniak , N. Komin , K. Kosack , D. Kostunin , M. Kreter , G. Lamanna , A. Lemiere , M. Lemoine-Goumard , J. -P. Lenain , E. Leser , C. Levy , T. Lohse , I. Lypova , J. Mackey , J. Majumdar , D. Malyshev , V. Marandon , A. Marcowith , A. Mares , C. Mariaud , G. Marti-Devesa , R. Marx , G. Maurin , P. J. Meintjes , A. M. W. Mitchell , R. Moderski , M. Mohamed , L. Mohrmann , C. Moore , E. Moulin , J. Muller , T. Murach , S. Nakashima , M. de Naurois , H. Ndiyavala , F. Niederwanger , J. Niemiec , L. Oakes , P. O Brien , H. Odaka , S. Ohm , E. de Ona Wilhelmi , M. Ostrowski , I. Oya , M. Panter , R. D. Parsons , C. Perennes , P. -O. Petrucci , B. Peyaud , Q. Piel , S. Pita , V. Poireau , A. Priyana Noel , D. A. Prokhorov , H. Prokoph , G. Puehlhofer , M. Punch , A. Quirrenbach , S. Raab , R. Rauth , A. Reimer , O. Reimer , Q. Remy , M. Renaud , F. Rieger , L. Rinchiuso , C. Romoli , G. Rowell , B. Rudak , E. Ruiz-Velasco , V. Sahakian , S. Sailer , S. Saito , D. A. Sanchez , A. Santangelo , M. Sasaki , R. Schlickeiser , F. Schuessler , A. Schulz , H. M. Schutte , U. Schwanke , S. Schwemmer , M. Seglar-Arroyo , M. Senniappan , A. S. Seyffert , N. Shafi , K. Shiningayamwe , R. Simoni , A. Sinha , H. Sol , A. Specovius , M. Spir-Jacob , L. Stawarz , R. Steenkamp , C. Stegmann , C. Steppa , T. Takahashi , T. Tavernier , A. M. Taylor , R. Terrier , D. Tiziani , M. Tluczykont , C. Trichard , M. Tsirou , N. Tsuji , R. Tuffs , Y. Uchiyama , D. J. van der Walt , C. van Eldik , C. van Rensburg , B. van Soelen , G. Vasileiadis , J. Veh , C. Venter , P. Vincent , J. Vink , H. J. Voelk , T. Vuillaume , Z. Wadiasingh , S. J. Wagner , R. White , A. Wierzcholska , R. Yang , H. Yoneda , M. Zacharias , R. Zanin , A. A. Zdziarski , A. Zech , A. Ziegler , J. Zorn , N. Zywucka , F. de Palma , M. Axelsson , O. J. Roberts

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are violent explosions, coming from cosmological distances. They are detected in gamma-rays (also X-rays, UV, optical, radio) almost every day, and have typical durations of a few seconds to a few minutes. Some GRBs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-10 Antonios Nathanail , Ioannis Contopoulos

Supergiant Fast X-ray Transients (SFXTs) represent the most extreme case of X-ray variability in High Mass X-ray Binaries hosting blue supergiant companions. Mainly discovered thanks to the INTEGRAL monitoring of the Galactic plane, these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-11-28 L. Sidoli

The light curves of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are believed to result from internal shocks reflecting the activity of the GRB central engine. Their temporal deconvolution can reveal potential differences in the properties of the central…

If typical gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have X-ray counterparts similar to those detected by Ginga, then sensitive focusing X-ray telescopes will be able to detect GRBs three orders of magnitude fainter than the detection limit of the Burst and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 T. T. Hamilton , E. V. Gotthelf , D. J. Helfand

The extragalactic gamma-ray sky is dominated by two classes of sources: Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) and radio loud active galactic nuclei whose jets are pointing at us (blazars). We believe that the radiation we receive from them originates…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Gabriele Ghisellini

We call "prompt" emission of Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) the erratic and violent phase of hard X-ray and soft gamma-ray emission, usually lasting for tens of seconds in long GRBs. However, the central engine of GRBs may live much longer.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-07 G. Ghisellini , M. Nardini , G. Ghirlanda

In this paper we consider the fact that the simple criterion used to label fast radio transient events as either fast radio bursts (FRBs, thought to be extragalactic with as yet unknown progenitors) or rotating radio transients (RRATs,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-25 E. F. Keane

X-ray flashes (XRFs) are fast X-ray transients thought to be softer analogs of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). With its soft X-ray sensitivity, the Einstein Probe (EP) provides a unique opportunity to study these events. We report multiwavelength…

If Gamma-Ray-Bursts (GRBs) occur at high redshifts, then their bright afterglow emission can be used to probe the ionization and metal enrichment histories of the intervening intergalactic medium during the epoch of reionization. In…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Benedetta Ciardi , Abraham Loeb

A link between magnetars and fast radio burst (FRB) sources has finally been established. In this context, one of the open issues is whether/which sources of extra galactic FRBs exhibit X/gamma-ray outbursts and whether it is correlated…

Short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs) are thought to be primarily associated with binary neutron star (BNS) mergers. The SGRB population can therefore be scrutinized to look for signatures of the delay time between the formation of the progenitor…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-08 Matteo Pracchia , Om Sharan Salafia

Fast X-ray Transients (FXTs) are believed to be non-recurrent bright X-ray sources lasting less than a day and occuring at serendipitous positions, they can best detected and discovered by instruments having a sufficiently wide field of…

Gamma-ray bursts are flashes of high-energy radiation lasting from a fraction of a second to several hours. Military satellites made the first detections of GRBs in the late 1960s. The $\gamma$-ray emission forms from shocks in a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-08 Andrew J. Levan

If X-ray flashes (XRFs) and X-ray rich Gamma-ray Bursts(XRRGs) have the same origin with Gamma-ray Bursts (GRBs) but are viewed from larger angles of structured jets, their early afterglows may differ from those of GRBs. When the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Yan , D. M. Wei , Y. Z. Fan