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We use the BD2 sample of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) based on 5.9 years of BATSE DISCLA data with a variety of models of the luminosity function to derive characteristic GRB luminosities, space densities and redshift distributions. Previously…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Maarten Schmidt

The gamma-ray burst (GRB) rate is essential for revealing the connection between GRBs, supernovae and stellar evolution. Additionally, the GRB rate at high redshift provides a strong probe of star formation history in the early universe.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-25 Amy Lien , Takanori Sakamoto , Neil Gehrels , David M. Palmer , Scott D. Barthelmy , Carlo Graziani , John K. Cannizzo

We study the spectral and energetics properties of 47 long-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) with known redshift, all of them detected by the Swift satellite. Due to the narrow energy range (15-150 keV) of the Swift-BAT detector, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. I. Cabrera , C. Firmani , V. Avila-Reese , G. Ghirlanda , G. Ghisellini , L. Nava

In the redshift range z = 0-1, the gamma ray burst (GRB) redshift distribution should increase rapidly because of increasing differential volume sizes and strong evolution in the star formation rate. This feature is not observed in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-05-24 D. M. Coward , D. Guetta , R. R. Burman , A. Imerito

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) by virtue of their high luminosities can be detected up to very high redshifts and therefore can be excellent probes of the early universe. This task is hampered by the fact that most of their characteristics have a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Vahe' Petrosian , Ellie Kitanidis , Daniel Kocevski

Luminosity function and event rate of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are easily biased by the instrument and selection effects. We select 115 Fermi/GBM GRBs with good spectra fitted by a smoothly broken power-law function. The $\tau$-statistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-23 Yang Liu , Zhi-Bin Zhang , Xiao-Fei Dong , Long-Biao Li , Xiu-Yun Du

We study the evolution with redshift of three measures of gamma-ray burst (GRB) duration ($T_{\rm 90}$, $T_{\rm 50}$ and $T_{\rm R45}$) in a fixed rest frame energy band for a sample of 232 Swift/BAT detected GRBs. Binning the data in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 O. M. Littlejohns , N. R. Butler

Long Gamma Ray Bursts hold the promise of probing star-formation and metal enrichment up to very high redshifts. The present GRB samples with redshift determination are largely incomplete and therefore a careful analysis of selection…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. Fiore , D. Guetta , S. Piranomonte , V. D'Elia , L. A. Antonelli

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

We use a homogeneous sample of gamma-ray bursts (GRB) extracted from 5.9 years of BATSE DISCLA data (astro-ph/9908190) and a variety of broken power-law luminosity functions to derive GRB luminosities and space densities. Luminosity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Maarten Schmidt

Prompted by various analyses of long (Type II) GRB rates and their relationship to the cosmic star-formation history, metallicity and luminosity function evolution, we systematically analyze these effects with a Monte Carlo code. We test…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-19 Francisco J. Virgili , Bing Zhang , Kentaro Nagamine , Jun-Hwan Choi

Luminosity correlations of long Gamma-ray bursts (GRB) are extensively proposed as an effective complementarity to trace the Hubble diagram of Universe at high redshifts, which is of great importance to explore properties of dark energy.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-22 Guo-Jian Wang , Hai Yu , Zheng-Xiang Li , Jun-Qing Xia , Zong-Hong Zhu

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

Redshift and luminosity distributions are essential for understanding the cosmic evolution of extragalactic objects and phenomena, such as galaxies, gamma-ray bursts, and fast radio bursts (FRBs). For FRBs, these distributions are primarily…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-12 Om Gupta , Paz Beniamini , Pawan Kumar , Steven L. Finkelstein

We present a catalog of the redshift estimates and probability distributions for 1366 individual Long-duration Gamma-Ray Bursts (LGRBs) detected by the Burst And Transient Source Experiment (BATSE). This result is based on a careful…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-19 Amir Shahmoradi , Robert J. Nemiroff

We compare the luminosity function and rate inferred from the BATSE long bursts peak flux distribution with those inferred from the Swift peak flux distribution. We find that both the BATSE and the Swift peak fluxes can be fitted by the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Dafne Guetta , Tsvi Piran

Recent evidence appears to link gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) to star-forming regions in galaxies at cosmological distances. If short-lived massive stars are the progenitors of GRBs, the rate of events per unit cosmological volume should be an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Cristiano Porciani , Piero Madau

We compare the detection rates and redshift distributions of low-luminosity (LL) GRBs localized by Swift with those expected to be observed by the new generation satellite detectors on GLAST (now Fermi) and, in future, EXIST. Although the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Imerito , D. Coward , R. Burman , D. Blair

Using a novel approach, the distribution of fluences of long gamma ray bursts derived from the Swift-BAT catalog, was reproduced by a jet-model characterized by the distribution of the total radiated energy in $\gamma$-rays and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-11-18 Chadia Kanaan , Jose A. de Freitas Pacheco

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