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We show that all X-ray decay curves of GRBs measured by Swift can be fitted using one or two components both of which have exactly the same functional form comprised of an early falling exponential phase followed by a power law decay. The…

We predict the redshift of the first observable (i.e., in our past light cone) Gamma Ray Burst (GRB) and calculate the GRB-rate redshift distribution of the Population III stars at very early times (z=20-60). Using the last 2 years of data…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Smadar Naoz , Omer Bromberg

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are widely suggested as potential sources of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs). The kinetic energy of the jets dissipates, leading to the production of an enormous amount of $\gamma$-ray photons and possibly also…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-17 Xing-Fu Zhang , Ruo-Yu Liu , Hai-Ming Zhang , Yi-Yun Huang , B. Theodore Zhang , Xiang-Yu Wang

Relativistic jets generated in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) produce luminous transient events, yet the fundamentals of jet composition and radiation mechanisms remain unclear. One means of identifying a magnetically-dominated outflow would be…

We report the systematic analysis of the durations for Swift gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and compare the results with those of pre-Swift data. For 95 GRBs with known redshift, we show that the observed durations have two lognormal distributions…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Zhi-Bin Zhang , Chul-Sung Choi

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are traditionally classified into long (lGRBs) and short (sGRBs) durations based on their $T_{90}$, with lGRBs widely used as tracers of the cosmic star formation rate (SFR) due to their observed association with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-15 Qin-Mei Li , Qi-Bin Sun , Sheng-Bang Qian , Fu-Xing Li

GRB 080810 was one of the first bursts to trigger both Swift and the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. It was subsequently monitored over the X-ray and UV/optical bands by Swift, in the optical by ROTSE and a host of other telescopes and was…

The bright gamma-ray burst GRB050525a has been detected with the Swift observatory, providing unique multiwavelength coverage from the very earliest phases of the burst. The X-ray and optical/UV afterglow decay light curves both exhibit a…

The rapid follow-up of gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglows made possible by the multi-wavelength satellite Swift, launched in November 2004, has put under a microscope the GRB early post-burst behavior, This is leading to a significant…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 P. Meszaros

The interaction between the relativistic jet and the circumburst medium produces a multiwavelength afterglow of a gamma-ray burst (GRBs). In this work, we present multiwavelength properties of GRB~250101A based on the observations of Swift,…

Early multiwavelength observations offer crucial insights into the nature of the relativistic jets responsible for gamma-ray bursts and their interaction with the surrounding medium.We present data of GRB 240825A from 17 space- and…

To reveal and understand astrophysical processes responsible for the Gamma Ray Burst (GRB) phenomenon, it is crucial to discover and understand relations between their observational properties. The presented study is performed in the GRB…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Maria Giovanna Dainotti , Michal Ostrowski , Richard Willingale

Ten years of operations of the Swift satellite have allow us to collect a small sample of long Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) at redshift larger than six. I will review here the present status of this research field and discuss the possible use of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-12 R. Salvaterra

Swift is a satellite equipped with gamma-ray, X-ray, and optical-UV instruments aimed at discovering, localizing and collecting data from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Launched at the end of 2004, this small-size mission finds about a hundred…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 S. Savaglio , U. Grothkopf

We compute the probability to detect long Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) at z>5 with Swift, assuming that GRBs form preferentially in low-metallicity environments. The model fits well both the observed BATSE and Swift GRB differential peak flux…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Salvaterra , S. Campana , G. Chincarini , G. Tagliaferri , S. Covino

We propose a redshift estimator for the long ($T_{90} > 20$) gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) observed by the BATSE. It is based on an empirical relation between the redshift and the power-law index of power density spectra (PDSs) of the observed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Heon-Young Chang , Suk-Jin Yoon , Chul-Sung Choi

Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) offer a potential way to extend the Hubble diagram to very high redshifts and to constrain the nature of dark energy in a way complementary to distant type Ia supernovae. However, gravitational lensing systematically…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Masamune Oguri , Keitaro Takahashi

We investigated the prompt light curves (LCs) of long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) from the Swift/BAT catalog. We aimed to characterize their power spectral densities (PSDs), search for quasiperiodic oscillations (QPOs), and conduct novel…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-21 Mariusz Tarnopolski , Volodymyr Marchenko

Recently, DeLaunay et al. (2016) discovered a gamma-ray transient, Swift J0644.5-5111, associated with the fast radio burst (FRB) 131104. They also reported follow-up broadband observations beginning two days after the FRB and provided…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-06 Z. G. Dai , J. S. Wang , X. F. Wu

The Gamma Ray Burst (GRB) 180720B is one of the brightest events detected by the Fermi satellite and the first GRB detected by the H.E.S.S. telescope above 100 GeV. We analyse the Fermi (GBM and LAT) and Swift (XRT and BAT) data and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-22 M. Ronchi , F. Fumagalli , M. E. Ravasio , G. Oganesyan , M. Toffano , O. S. Salafia , L. Nava , S. Ascenzi , G. Ghirlanda , G. Ghisellini