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The recent association of several short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) with early type galaxies with low star formation rate demonstrates that short bursts arise from a different progenitor mechanism than long bursts. However, since the duration…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-30 Jay P. Norris , Jerry T. Bonnell

Short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs) with extended emission (EE) are composed of initial main emission (ME) with a short-hard spike, followed by a long-lasting EE. Whether the ME and EE originated from the same origin or not, as well as the jet…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-07 Xue-Zhao Chang , Hou-Jun Lü , Xing Yang , Jia-Ming Chen , En-Wei Liang

Long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) frequently exhibit complex prompt emission structures with multiple temporally distinct episodes, such as a main emission (ME) phase followed by a weak extended emission (EE) tail. Whether these subcomponents…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-27 Liang Li , Xiao Wang , Zhi-Li Cui , Cheng-Long Xiao , Wen Li , Yu Wang , Zi-Gao Dai , Rong-Gen Cai

Some short GRBs are followed by longer extended emission, lasting anywhere from ~10 to ~100 s. These short GRBs with extended emission (EE) can possess observational characteristics of both short and long GRBs (as represented by GRB…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-07 Y. Kaneko , Z. F. Bostanci , E. Gogus , L. Lin

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are one of the most extreme transients in the universe, but their explosion and emission mechanism remains unclear. To investigate the nature of GRB jets, here we focus on X-ray flares (XFs) and extended emissions…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-02 Riki Matsui , Shigeo S. Kimura , Kohta Murase , Bing Theodore Zhang

The origin of extended emissions following prompt emissions of short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs) is in mystery. The long-term activity of the extended emission is responsible for promising electromagnetic counterparts to gravitational waves…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-12 Yasuaki Kagawa , Daisuke Yonetoku , Tatsuya Sawano , Makoto Arimoto , Shota Kisaka , Ryo Yamazaki

Extended emission (EE) is a high-energy, early time rebrightening sometimes seen in the light curves of short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). We present the first contiguous fits to the EE tail and the later X-ray plateau, unified within a single…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 B. P. Gompertz , P. T. O'Brien , G. A. Wynn

It is demonstrated here that if the prompt GRB emission is produced by the simplest version of the external shock model, a specific relation should prevail between the observed duration, isotropic equivalent energy, and photon peak energy.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz , Jonathan Granot

We investigate the possible origin of extended emissions (EEs) of short gamma-ray bursts with an isotropic energy of ~ 10^(50-51) erg and a duration of a few 10 s to ~ 100 s, based on a compact binary (neutron star (NS)-NS or NS-black hole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Takashi Nakamura , Kazumi Kashiyama , Daisuke Nakauchi , Yudai Suwa , Takanori Sakamoto , Nobuyuki Kawai

Owing to lack of multiple components of prompt $\gamma$-ray emissions in short gamma-ray bursts (sGRBs), how these distinct components are correlated still keeps unclear. In this paper, we investigate the spectral and temporal properties of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-26 X. J. Li , Z. B. Zhang , K. Zhang

The merger of compact binary stars produces short gamma-ray bursts (sGRBs), involving channels such as neutron star - neutron star (BNS) and neutron star - black hole (NS-BH). The association between sGRB 170817A and gravitational wave GW…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-14 Qin-Mei Li , Qi-Bin Sun

Approximately 1/4-1/2 of short duration Gamma-Ray Bursts are followed by variable X-ray emission lasting ~ 100 s with a fluence comparable or exceeding that of the initial burst itself. The long duration and significant energy of this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 N. Bucciantini , B. D. Metzger , T. A. Thompson , E. Quataert

Short GRBs with extended emission (EE) that are composed initially of a short-hard spike and followed by a long-lasting EE, are thought to be classified as a subsection of short GRBs. The narrow energy band available during the {\em Swift}…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-05 Lin Lan , Rui-Jing Lu , Hou-Jun Lü , Jun Shen , Jared Rice , Long Li , En-Wei Liang

A comprehensive study is given to short gamma-ray bursts (sGRBs) in the third Swift/BAT GRB Catalog from December 2004 to July 2019. We examine in details the temporal properties of the three components in the prompt gamma-ray emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-17 X. J. Li , Z. B. Zhang , X. L. Zhang , H. Y. Zhen

The most popular progenitor model for short duration Gamma-Ray bursts (sGRBs) is the merger of two compact objects. However, the short GRB population exhibit a certain diversity: some bursts display an extended emission (EE), continuing in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-26 Nikhil Anand , Mustafa Shahid , Lekshmi Resmi

The initial pulse complex (IPC) in short gamma-ray bursts is sometimes accompanied by a softer, low-intensity extended emission (EE) component. In cases where such a component is not observed, it is not clear if it is present but below the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-06-25 Jay P. Norris , Neil Gehrels , Jeffrey D. Scargle

The connection between Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) and their afterglows is currently not well understood. Afterglow models of synchrotron emission generated by external shocks in the GRB fireball model predict emission detectable in the…

The X-ray emission of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is often characterized by an initial steep decay, followed by a nearly constant emission phase (so called "plateau") which can extend up to thousands of seconds. While the steep decay is usually…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-27 Stefano Ascenzi , Gor Oganesyan , Om S. Salafia , Marica Branchesi , Giancarlo Ghirlanda , Simone Dall'Osso

The energy release in gamma-ray bursts is one of the most interesting clues on the nature of their "inner engines". We show here that the total energy release in GRBs varies by less than one order of magnitude from one burst to another…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tsvi Piran , Pawan Kumar , Alin Panaitescu , Luigi Piro

Long-lasting emission of short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is crucial to reveal the physical origin of the central engine as well as to detect electromagnetic (EM) counterparts to gravitational waves (GWs) from neutron star binary mergers. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-20 Shota Kisaka , Kunihito Ioka , Takanori Sakamoto
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