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We estimate the luminosity evolution and formation rate for over 900 GRBs by using redshift and luminosity data calculated by Band, Norris, $&$ Bonnell (2004) via the lag-luminosity correlation. By applying maximum likelihood techniques, we…

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Combining the `time-delay distance' ($D_{\Delta t}$) measurements from galaxy lenses and other distance indicators provides model-independent determinations of the Hubble constant ($H_0$) and spatial curvature ($\Omega_{K,0}$), only based…

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Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are bright, mostly millisecond-duration transients of extragalactic origin whose emission mechanisms remain unknown. As FRB signals propagate through ionized media, they experience frequency-dependent delays…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-21 Hosein Rajabi , Zhejian Liu , Fereshteh Rajabi , Martin Houde

In this work, we propose a novel ensemble of recurrent neural networks (RNNs) that considers the multiband and non-uniform cadence without having to compute complex features. Our proposed model consists of an ensemble of RNNs, which do not…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-27 I. Becker , P. Protopapas , M. Catelan , K. Pichara

Standard candles are one of the most important tools to study the universe. In this paper, the constraints of standards candles on the cosmological parameters are estimated for different cases. The dependence of the constraints on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-25 Shi Qi

Long duration Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) have eight luminosity relations where observable burst properties can yield the burst luminosity and hence distance. This turns GRBs into useful tools of cosmology. Recently, two tests have been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Bradley E. Schaefer , Andrew C. Collazzi

A new method of measuring cosmology with gamma-ray bursts(GRBs) has been proposed by Liang and Zhang recently. In this method, only observable quantities including the rest frame peak energy of the \nu F_\nu spectrum (E'_p), the isotropic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. Y. Wang , Z. G. Dai

We discuss possible tests of the constancy of the velocity of light using distant astrophysical sources such as gamma-ray bursters (GRBs), Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) and pulsars. This speculative quest may be motivated by some models of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Ellis , K. Farakos , N. E. Mavromatos , V. Mitsou , D. V. Nanopoulos

Tight constraints on cosmological parameters can be obtained with standard candles spanning a range of redshifts as large as possible. We propose to treat SN Ia and long Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) as a single class of candles. Taking advantage…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Firmani , V. Avila-Reese , G. Ghisellini , G. Ghirlanda

We present a new method aimed to handle long Gamma-Ray Burst (GRBs) as cosmic rulers. The recent discovery of a tight correlation between the collimation corrected GRB energy and the peak of the gamma-ray spectrum has opened the possibility…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Firmani , G. Ghisellini , G. Ghirlanda , V. Avila-Reese

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are cosmological explosions which carry valuable information from the distant past of the expanding universe. One of the greatest discoveries in modern cosmology is the finding of the accelerated expansion of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-15 Rupal Basak , A. R. Rao

The mechanism responsible for the prompt emission of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is still a debated issue. The prompt phase-related GRB correlations can allow to discriminate among the most plausible theoretical models explaining this emission.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-01 Maria Dainotti , Roberta Del Vecchio , Mariusz Tarnopolski

Model-independent bounds on the Hubble constant $H_0$ are important to shed light on cosmological tensions. We work out a model-independent analysis based on the sum rule, which is applied to late- and early-time data catalogs to determine…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-17 Orlando Luongo , Marco Muccino

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) serve as important cosmological probes, whose X-ray afterglow light curves (LCs) may exhibit a plateau phase (with temporal slope $\alpha$ between 0 and 0.5) that may originate from magnetar energy injection. Similar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-21 Yu-Qi Zhou , Shuang-Xi Yi , Yu-Peng Yang , Jia-Lun Li , Jian-Ping Hu , Yan-Kun Qu , Fa-Yin Wang

In the present work, by the help of the newly released Union2 compilation which consists of 557 Type Ia supernovae (SNIa), we calibrate 109 long Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) with the well-known Amati relation, using the cosmology-independent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Hao Wei

Gamma-ray bursts represent some of the most energetic and complex phenomena in the universe, characterized by highly variable light curves that often contain observational gaps. Reconstructing these light curves is essential for gaining…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-30 Zhunuskanov A. , Sakan A. , Akhmetali A. , Zaidyn M. , Ussipov N

Gamma-ray Bursts (GRBs) are valuable probes of cosmic star formation reaching back into the epoch of reionization, and a large dataset with known redshifts ($z$) is an important ingredient for these studies. Usually, $z$ is measured using…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-13 Dhruv S. Bal , Aditya Narendra , Maria Giovanna Dainotti , Nikita S. Khatiya , Aleksander L. Lenart , Dieter H. Hartmann

In this paper, we examine the spacial distribution of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) using a sample of 373 objects. We subdivide the GRB data into two redshift intervals over the redshift range $0<z< 6.7$. We measure the two-point correlation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-07 Ming-Hua Li , Hai-Nan Lin

We show how the redshift and peak-flux distributions of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have an observation time dependence that can be used to discriminate between different burst populations. We demonstrate how observation time relations can be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-02-20 E. J. Howell , D. M. Coward

We use the possible Cepheid-like luminosity estimator for the long-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) developed by Reichart et al. (2000) to estimate the intrinsic luminosity, and thus the redshift, of 907 long-duration GRBs from the BATSE 4B…

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