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Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) rank among the most powerful astrophysical phenomena, characterized by complex and highly variable prompt emission light curves that reflect the dynamics of their central engines. In this work, we analyze a sample of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-28 Ruo-Yu Guan , Fei-Fei Wang , Yuan-Chuan Zou

Compact plasmas, that exist near black-hole candidates and in gamma ray burst sources, commonly exhibit self-organized non-linear behavior. A model that simulates the non-linear behavior of compact radiative plasmas is constructed directly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Ran Sivron

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most powerful electromagnetic outbursts in the Universe and emit a vast amount of their energy in the form of gamma rays. Their duration is extremely short on cosmic timescales, but they show a wealth of time…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-11 Else Magnus , Jannes Loonen , Rose S. Stanley , Paul Coppin , Krijn D. de Vries , Nick van Eijndhoven

Gamma-ray burst (GRB) 130427A is one of the most energetic GRBs ever observed. The initial pulse up to 2.5 s is possibly the brightest well-isolated pulse observed to date. A fine time resolution spectral analysis shows power-law decays of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-11-25 R. Preece , J. Michael Burgess , A. von Kienlin , P. N. Bhat , M. S. Briggs , D. Byrne , V. Chaplin , W. Cleveland , A. C. Collazzi , V. Connaughton , A. Diekmann , G. Fitzpatrick , S. Foley , M. Gibby , M. Giles , A. Goldstein , J. Greiner , D. Gruber , P. Jenke , R. M. Kippen , C. Kouveliotou , S. McBreen , C. Meegan , W. S. Paciesas , V. Pelassa , D. Tierney , A. J. van der Horst , C. Wilson-Hodge , S. Xiong , G. Younes , H. -F. Yu , M. Ackermann , M. Ajello , M. Axelsson , L. Baldini , G. Barbiellini , M. G. Baring , D. Bastieri , R. Bellazzini , E. Bissaldi , E. Bonamente , J. Bregeon , M. Brigida , P. Bruel , R. Buehler , S. Buson , G. A. Caliandro , R. A. Cameron , P. A. Caraveo , C. Cecchi , E. Charles , A. Chekhtman , J. Chiang , G. Chiaro , S. Ciprini , R. Claus , J. Cohen-Tanugi , L. R. Cominsky , J. Conrad , F. D'Ammando , A. de Angelis , F. de Palma , C. D. Dermer , R. Desiante , S. W. Digel , L. Di Venere , P. S. Drell , A. Drlica-Wagner , C. Favuzzi , A. Franckowiak , Y. Fukazawa , P. Fusco , F. Gargano , N. Gehrels , S. Germani , N. Giglietto , F. Giordano , M. Giroletti , G. Godfrey , J. Granot , I. A. Grenier , S. Guiriec , D. Hadasch , Y. Hanabata , A. K. Harding , M. Hayashida , S. Iyyani , T. Jogler , G. Jóannesson , T. Kawano , J. Knödlseder , D. Kocevski , M. Kuss , J. Lande , J. Larsson , S. Larsson , L. Latronico , F. Longo , F. Loparco , M. N. Lovellette , P. Lubrano , M. Mayer , M. N. Mazziotta , P. F. Michelson , T. Mizuno , M. E. Monzani , E. Moretti , A. Morselli , S. Murgia , R. Nemmen , E. Nuss , T. Nymark , M. Ohno , T. Ohsugi , A. Okumura , N. Omodei , M. Orienti , D. Paneque , J. S. Perkins , M. Pesce-Rollins , F. Piron , G. Pivato , T. A. Porter , J. L. Racusin , S. Rainò , R. Rando , M. Razzano , S. Razzaque , A. Reimer , O. Reimer , S. Ritz , M. Roth , F. Ryde , A. Sartori , J. D. Scargle , A. Schulz , C. Sgrò , E. J. Siskind , G. Spandre , P. Spinelli , D. J. Suson , H. Tajima , H. Takahashi , J. G. Thayer , J. B. Thayer , L. Tibaldo , M. Tinivella , D. F. Torres , G. Tosti , E. Troja , T. L. Usher , J. Vandenbroucke , V. Vasileiou , G. Vianello , V. Vitale , M. Werner , B. L. Winer , K. S. Wood , S. Zhu

Two different multivariate clustering techniques, the K-means partitioning method and the Dirichlet process of mixture modeling, have been applied to the BATSE Gamma-ray burst (GRB) catalog, to obtain the optimum number of coherent groups.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-06-22 Tanuka Chattopadhyay , Ranjeev Misra , Asis Kumar Chattopadhyay , Malay Naskar

A multivariate analysis of gamma-ray burst (GRB) bulk properties is presented to discriminate between distinct classes of GRBs. Several variables representing burst duration, fluence and spectral hardness are considered. Two multivariate…

Long-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are widely believed to be highly-collimated explosions (opening angle theta ~ 1-10 deg). As a result of this beaming factor, the true energy release from a GRB is usually several orders of magnitude…

Very-high-energy (VHE; >~100 GeV) gamma-rays are expected from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) in some scenarios. Exploring this photon energy regime is necessary for understanding the energetics and properties of GRBs. GRBs have been one of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-02-27 F. Aharonian

Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs), short and intense pulses of low energy gamma-rays, have fascinated astronomers and astrophysicists since their unexpected discovery in the late sixties. During the last decade, several space missions: BATSE (Burst…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Tsvi Piran

We study the synchrotron and synchrotron self-Compton (SSC) emission from internal shocks that are responsible for the prompt gamma-ray emission in GRBs, and consider the relation between these two components, taking into account the high…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Dafne Guetta , Jonathan Granot

We study the properties of short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), based on the assumption that they are all connected to the binary neutron star mergers, whose formation mechanism contains a large amount of uncertainty. In particular, the merger…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-15 Shin'ichiro Ando

Gamma-ray burst (GRB) engines are probed most intimately during the prompt gamma-ray luminous phase when the expanding blast wave is closest to the explosion center. Using GRBs 990123 and 940217 as guides, we briefly review observations of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Charles D. Dermer , James Chiang

The Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment (ROTSE) seeks to measure contemporaneous and early afterglow optical emission from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). The ROTSE-I telescope array has been fully automated and responding to burst alerts…

As one class of the most important objects in the universe, magnetars can produce a lot of different frequency bursts including X-ray bursts. In \cite{2022ApJS..260...24C}, 75 X-ray bursts produced by magnetar SGR J1935+2154 during an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-11 Wen-Long Zhang , Xiu-Juan Li , Yu-Peng Yang , Shuang-Xi Yi , Cheng-Kui Li , Qing-Wen Tang , Ying Qin , Fa-Yin Wang

Gamma-ray bursts (GRB) are extremely energetic events and produce highly diverse light curves. Light curves are believed to be resulting from internal shocks reflecting the activities of the GRB central engine. Hence their temporal studies…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-07-30 P. N. Bhat

We have searched for prompt radio emission from nine Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) with a 12 m telescope at 1.4 GHz, with a time resolution of 64 us to 1 s. We detected single dispersed radio pulses with significances >6 sigma in the few minutes…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Keith W. Bannister , Tara Murphy , Bryan M. Gaensler , John E. Reynolds

Four years after the launch the Swift satellite the nature of the Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) broadband afterglow behaviour is still an open issue ad the standard external shock fireball models cannot easily explain the puzzling combined…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-08-05 M. Nardini , G. Ghisellini , G. Ghirlanda , A. Celotti

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are intense bursts of high-energy photons (prompt emissions) caused by relativistic jets. After the emissions, multi-wavelength afterglows, from radio to very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray, last for more than a few…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-10 Yuri Sato , Kaori Obayashi , B. Theodre Zhang , Shuta J. Tanaka , Kohta Murase , Yutaka Ohira , Ryo Yamazaki

Characterising and distinguishing gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) has interested astronomers for many decades. While some authors have found two or three groups of GRBs by analyzing only a few parameters, recent work identified five…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-28 Fan Dai , Ranjan Maitra

The \emph{Swift} Burst Alert Telescope (BAT), operating in the 15--150 keV energy band, struggles to detect the peak energy ($E_{\rm p}$) of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), as most GRBs have $E_{\rm p}$ values typically distributed between 200-300…

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