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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

The short GRB 120323A had the highest flux ever detected with the Fermi/GBM. Here we study its remarkable spectral properties and their evolution using two spectral models: (i) a single emission component scenario, where the spectrum is…

The typical detection rate of $\sim1$ gamma-ray burst (GRB) per day by the \emph{Fermi} Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) provides a valuable opportunity to further our understanding of GRB physics. However, the large uncertainty of the…

A simple physical model for long-duration gamma ray bursts (GRBs) is used to fit the redshift (z) and the jet opening-angle distributions measured with earlier GRB missions and with Swift. The effect of different sensitivities for GRB…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Truong Le , Charles D. Dermer

We compare the properties of optically dark GRBs, defined by the optical-to-X-ray spectral index beta_OX<0.5, and normal ones discovered by the Swift satellite before the year 2008 in a statistical way, using data collected from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-09-24 W. Zheng , J. Deng , J. Wang

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

The number of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) detected at high energies ($\sim\,0.1-100$ GeV) has seen a rapid increase over the last decade, thanks to observations from the Fermi-Large Area Telescope. The improved statistics and quality of data…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-17 Lara Nava

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are extremely energetic events at cosmological distances. They provide unique laboratory to investigate fundamental physical processes under extreme conditions. Due to extreme luminosities, GRBs are detectable at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-21 Poonam Chandra

The complex structure of the light curves of Swift GRBs has made their interpretation and that of the blast wave caused by the burst, more difficult than in the pre-Swift era. We aim to constrain the blast wave parameters: electron energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-06-25 P. A. Curran , A. J. van der Horst , R. L. C. Starling , R. A. M. J. Wijers

The non-repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) could arise from catastrophic stellar explosions or magnetar giant flares, so relativistic blast waves might be produced in these events. Motivated by this, we here search for GeV counterparts to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-28 Shao-Qiang Xi , Pak-Hin Thomas Tam , Fang-Kun Peng , Xiang-Yu Wang

A sample of almost 400 Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) detected by the RHESSI satellite is studied statistically. We focus on GRB duration and hardness ratio and use the statistical chi^2 test and the F-test to compare the number of GRB subgroups…

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

X-ray flares are generally supposed to be produced by the later central engine activities, and may share the similar physical origin with prompt emission of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). In this paper, we have analyzed all significant X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-08 Shuang-Xi Yi , Shao-Qiang Xi , Hai Yu , F. Y. Wang , Hui-Jun Mu , Lian-Zhong Lv , En-Wei Liang

The Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) detects gamma-rays in the energy range 8 keV - 40 MeV. We developed a new background fitting process of these data, based on the motion of the satellite. Here we summarize this method, called…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-03-14 Dorottya Szécsi , Zsolt Bagoly , József Kóbori , Lajos G. Balázs , István Horváth

The statistical distribution of energies among particles responsible for long Gamma Ray Burst (GRB) emission is analyzed in light of recent results of the Fermi Observatory. The allsky flux, $F_{\gamma}$, recorded by the Gamma Ray Burst…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-01-27 David Eichler , Dafne Guetta , Martin Pohl

Motivating by the discovery of association between GW 170817 and sGRB 170817A, we present a comprehensive analysis for sGRBs observed with Fermi/GBM in 9 operation years and study the properties of sGRB 170817A -like events. We derive a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-20 Rui-Jing Lu , Shen-Shi Du , Ji-Gui Cheng , Hou-Jun Lü , Hai-Ming Zhang , Lin Lan , En-Wei Liang

Observations of gamma ray bursts (GRBs) with Swift produced the initially surprising result that many bursts have large X-ray flares superimposed on the underlying afterglow. The flares were sometimes intense, had rapid rise and decay…

Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) are a powerful probe of the high redshift Universe. We present a tool to estimate the detection rate of high-z GRBs by a generic detector with defined energy band and sensitivity. We base this on a population model…

We study time-resolved spectra of the prompt emission of Swift Gamma-ray bursts (GRB). Our goal is to see if previous BATSE claims of the existence of a large amount of spectra with the low energy photon indices harder than 2/3 are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 V. Savchenko , A. Neronov

Gamma-ray bursts are traditionally classified as short and long bursts based on their $T_{\rm 90}$ value (the time interval during which an instrument observes $5\%$ to $95\%$ of gamma-ray/hard X-ray fluence). However, $T_{\rm 90}$ is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-10 Dimple , Kuntal Misra , Ankur Ghosh , K. G. Arun , Rahul Gupta , Amit Kumar , L. Resmi , S. B. Pandey , Lallan Yadav

After almost 4 years of operation, the two instruments onboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have shown that the number of gamma-ray bursts with high energy photon emission above 100 MeV cannot exceed roughly 9% of the total number of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Carl W. Akerlof , WeiKang Zheng