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Launched on June 11, 2008, the LAT instrument onboard the $Fermi$ Gamma-ray Space Telescope has provided a rare opportunity to study high energy photon emission from gamma-ray bursts. Although the majority of such events (27) have been iden…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Weikang Zheng , Carl W. Akerlof , Shashi B. Pandey , Timothy A. McKay , Binbin Zhang , Bing Zhang , Takanori Sakamoto

We report on the observation of the bright, long gamma-ray burst, GRB 090926A, by the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) and Large Area Telescope (LAT) instruments on board the \Fermi\ Gamma-ray Space Telescope. GRB 090926A shares several…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-17 Fermi-LAT , Fermi-GBM collaborations

Detection of spectral line in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is importance for studying GRB physics, as it provides insights into the composition and physical conditions of the GRB environment. However, progress in detecting X-ray or gamma-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-10 Lu-Yao Jiang , Yun Wang , Yu-Jia Wei , Da-Ming Wei , Xiang Li , Hao-Ning He , Jia Ren , Zhao-Qiang Shen , Zhi-Ping Jin

The extragalactic magnetic field (EGMF) could be probed with $\gamma$-ray observations of distant sources. Primary very high energy (VHE) $\gamma$-rays from these sources absorb on extragalactic background light photons, and secondary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-07 Timur A. Dzhatdoev , Egor I. Podlesnyi , Grigory I. Rubtsov

The dominant radiation mechanism that produces the prompt emission in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) remains a major open question. Spectral information alone has proven insufficient in elucidating its nature. Time-resolved linear polarization has…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-21 Ramandeep Gill , Jonathan Granot

The recently detected linear polarization in the optical lightcurve of GRB 990510 renewed the interest on how polarization can be produced in gamma-ray burst fireballs. Here we present a model based on the assumption that we are seeing a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Gabriele Ghisellini , Davide Lazzati

We report on a very bright, long-duration gamma-ray burst (GRB), GRB~220426A, observed by \emph{Fermi} satellite. GRB~220426A with total duration of $T_{90}=6$~s is composed with two main pulses and some sub-peaks. The spectral analysis of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-19 Li-Tao Deng , Da-Bin Lin , Li Zhou , Kai Wang , Xing Yang , Shu-Jin Hou , Jing Li , Xiang-Gao Wang , Rui-Jing Lu , En-Wei Liang

Millilensing of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) is expected to manifest as multiple emission episodes in a single triggered GRB with similar light-curve patterns and similar spectrum properties. Identifying such lensed GRBs could help improve…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-25 Shi-Jie Lin , An Li , He Gao , Lin Lin , Bin-Bin Zhang , Zi-Ke Liu , Jin-Hang Zou , Zhao Zhang , Huan Zhou , Zheng-Xiang Li , Lin Lan

The radiation mechanisms powering Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and their physical processes remain one of the unresolved questions in high-energy astrophysics. Spectro-polarimetric observations of exceptionally bright GRBs provide a powerful…

Simultaneous $\gamma$-ray measurements of gamma-ray burst (GRB) spectra and polarization offer a unique way to determine the underlying emission mechanism(s) in these objects as well as probing the particle acceleration mechanism(s) that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 J. Michael Burgess , M. Kole , F. Berlato , J. Greiner , G. Vianello , N. Produit , Z. H Li , J. C Sun

The detection of gravitational waves together with their electromagnetic counterpart, in the gamma-ray burst GRB 170817A, marked a new era of multi-messenger astronomy. Several theoretical models have been proposed to explain the atypical…

The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (FGST) has opened a new high-energy window in the study of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs). Here we present a thorough analysis of GRB 080825C, which triggered the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM), and was the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-12-04 LAT Collaboration

We report the first detection of radio polarization of a GRB afterglow with the first intensive combined use of telescopes in the millimeter and submillimeter ranges for GRB171205A. The linear polarization degree in the millimeter band at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-11-06 Y. Urata , K. Toma , K. Huang , K. Asada , H. Nagai , S. Takahashi , G. Petitpas , M. Tashiro , K. Yamaoka

We present an analysis of time-resolved optical emissions observed from the gamma-ray burst GRB 081126 during the prompt phase. The analysis employed time-resolved photometry using optical data obtained by the TAROT telescope, using BAT…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Alain Klotz , B. Gendre , J. L. Atteia , Michel Boër , David M. Coward , Alan C. Imerito

We report the discovery of GRB 221009A, the highest flux gamma-ray burst ever observed by the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM). This GRB has continuous prompt emission lasting more than 600 seconds which smoothly transitions to afterglow…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-09 S. Lesage , P. Veres , M. S. Briggs , A. Goldstein , D. Kocevski , E. Burns , C. A. Wilson-Hodge , P. N. Bhat , D. Huppenkothen , C. L. Fryer , R. Hamburg , J. Racusin , E. Bissaldi , W. H. Cleveland , S. Dalessi , C. Fletcher , M. M. Giles , B. A. Hristov , C. M. Hui , B. Mailyan , C. Malacaria , S. Poolakkil , O. J. Roberts , A. von Kienlin , J. Wood , M. Ajello , M. Arimoto , L. Baldini , J. Ballet , M. G. Baring , D. Bastieri , J. Becerra Gonzalez , R. Bellazzini , E. Bissaldi , R. D. Blandford , R. Bonino , P. Bruel , S. Buson , R. A. Cameron , R. Caputo , P. A. Caraveo , E. Cavazzuti , G. Chiaro , N. Cibrario , S. Ciprini , P. Cristarella Orestano , M. Crnogorcevic , A. Cuoco , S. Cutini , F. DAmmando , S. De Gaetano , N. Di Lalla , L. Di Venere , A. Dominguez , S. J. Fegan , E. C. Ferrara , H. Fleischhack , Y. Fukazawa , S. Funk , P. Fusco , G. Galanti , V. Gammaldi , F. Gargano , C. Gasbarra , D. Gasparrini , S. Germani , F. Giacchino , N. Giglietto , R. Gill , M. Giroletti , J. Granot , D. Green , I. A. Grenier , S. Guiriec , M. Gustafsson , E. Hays , J. W. Hewitt , D. Horan , X. Hou , M. Kuss , L. Latronico , A. Laviron , M. Lemoine-Goumard , J. Li , I. Liodakis , F. Longo , F. Loparco , L. Lorusso , M. N. Lovellette , P. Lubrano , S. Maldera , A. Manfreda , G. Marti-Devesa , M. N. Mazziotta , J. E. McEnery , I. Mereu , M. Meyer , P. F. Michelson , T. Mizuno , M. E. Monzani , A. Morselli , I. V. Moskalenko , M. Negro , E. Nuss , N. Omodei , E. Orlando , J. F. Ormes , D. Paneque , G. Panzarini , M. Persic , M. Pesce-Rollins , R. Pillera , F. Piron , H. Poon , T. A. Porter , G. Principe , S. Raino , R. Rando , B. Rani , M. Razzano , S. Razzaque , A. Reimer , O. Reimer , F. Ryde , M. Sanchez-Conde , P. M. Saz Parkinson , L. Scotton , D. Serini , C. Sgro , V. Sharma , E. J. Siskind , G. Spandre , P. Spinelli , H. Tajima , D. F. Torres , J. Valverde , T. Venters , Z. Wadiasingh , K. Wood , G. Zaharijas

On 2017 August 17, the gravitational-wave event GW170817 was observed by the Advanced LIGO and Virgo detectors, and the gamma-ray burst (GRB) GRB 170817A was observed independently by the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor, and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-03 LIGO Scientific Collaboration , Virgo Collaboration , Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor , INTEGRAL

The polarization of the optical afterglow (AG) of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) has only been measured in a few instances at various times after the GRB. In all cases except the best measured one (GRB 030329) the observed polarization and its…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Shlomo Dado , Arnon Dar , A. De Rujula

Previous research on Lorentz invariance violation in photons from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) suggested a scenario where multi-GeV photons could be emitted before lower-energy photons at the GRB source frame. This implies the existence of a new…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-17 Qing Liu , Hanlin Song , Bo-Qiang Ma

We present a complete analysis of Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) data of GRB 221009A, the brightest Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) ever detected. The burst emission above 30 MeV detected by the LAT preceded by 1 s the low-energy (< 10 MeV) pulse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-10 M. Axelsson , M. Ajello , M. Arimoto , L. Baldini , J. Ballet , M. G. Baring , C. Bartolini , D. Bastieri , J. Becerra Gonzalez , R. Bellazzini , B. Berenji , E. Bissaldi , R. D. Blandford , R. Bonino , P. Bruel , S. Buson , R. A. Cameron , R. Caputo , P. A. Caraveo , E. Cavazzuti , C. C. Cheung , G. Chiaro , N. Cibrario , S. Ciprini , G. Cozzolongo , P. Cristarella Orestano , M. Crnogorcevic , A. Cuoco , S. Cutini , F. D'Ammando , S. De Gaetano , N. Di Lalla , A. Dinesh , R. Di Tria , L. Di Venere , A. Domínguez , S. J. Fegan , E. C. Ferrara , A. Fiori , A. Franckowiak , Y. Fukazawa , S. Funk , P. Fusco , G. Galanti , F. Gargano , C. Gasbarra , S. Germani , F. Giacchino , N. Giglietto , M. Giliberti , R. Gill , F. Giordano , M. Giroletti , J. Granot , D. Green , I. A. Grenier , S. Guiriec , M. Gustafsson , M. Hashizume , E. Hays , J. W. Hewitt , D. Horan , T. Kayanoki , M. Kuss , A. Laviron , J. Li , I. Liodakis , F. Longo , F. Loparco , L. Lorusso , B. Lott , M. N. Lovellette , P. Lubrano , S. Maldera , D. Malyshev , A. Manfreda , G. Martí-Devesa , R. Martinelli , I. Martinez Castellanos , M. N. Mazziotta , J. E. McEnery , I. Mereu , M. Meyer , P. F. Michelson , N. Mirabal , W. Mitthumsiri , T. Mizuno , P. Monti-Guarnieri , M. E. Monzani , T. Morishita , A. Morselli , I. V. Moskalenko , M. Negro , R. Niwa , N. Omodei , M. Orienti , E. Orlando , D. Paneque , G. Panzarini , M. Persic , M. Pesce-Rollins , V. Petrosian , R. Pillera , F. Piron , T. A. Porter , G. Principe , J. L. Racusin , S. Rainò , R. Rando , B. Rani , M. Razzano , S. Razzaque , A. Reimer , O. Reimer , F. Ryde , M. Sánchez-Conde , P. M. Saz Parkinson , D. Serini , C. Sgrò , V. Sharma , E. J. Siskind , G. Spandre , P. Spinelli , D. J. Suson , H. Tajima , D. Tak , J. B. Thayer , D. F. Torres , J. Valverde , G. Zaharijas , S. Lesage , M. S. Briggs , E. Burns , S. Bala , P. N. Bhat , W. H. Cleveland , S. Dalessi , C. de Barra , M. Gibby , M. M. Giles , R. Hamburg , B. A. Hristov , C. M. Hui , D. Kocevski , B. Mailyan , C. Malacaria , S. McBreen , S. Poolakkil , O. J. Roberts , L. Scotton , P. Veres , A. von Kienlin , C. A. Wilson-Hodge , J. Wood

The physical composition of the ejecta of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) remains an open question. The radiation mechanism of the prompt gamma rays is also in debate. This problem can be solved for the bursts hosting distinct thermal radiation.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-07 Yun Wang , Tian-Ci Zheng , Zhi-Ping Jin