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Gamma Ray Burst (GRB) afterglows close to their peak intensity are among the brightest X-ray sources in the sky. Despite their fast power-law like decay, when fluxes are integrated from minutes up to hours after the GRB event, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 F. Fiore , F. Nicastro , S. Savaglio , L. Stella , M. Vietri

In order to obtain an overview of the gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), we need a full sample. In this paper, we collected 6289 GRBs (from GRB 910421 to GRB 160509A) from the literature, including prompt emission, afterglow and host galaxy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-13 Feifei Wang , Yuan-Chuan Zou , Fuxiang Liu , Bin Liao , Yu Liu , Yating Chai , Lei Xia

The division of Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) into different classes, other than the "short" and "long", has been an active field of research. We investigate whether GRBs can be classified based on a broader set of parameters, including prompt…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-28 Shubham Bhardwaj , Maria G. Dainotti , Sachin Venkatesh , Aditya Narendra , Anish Kalsi , Enrico Rinaldi , Agnieszka Pollo

Context: Multiwavelength observations of gamma-ray burst prompt and afterglow emission are a key tool to disentangle the various possible emission processes and scenarios proposed to interpret the complex gamma-ray burst phenomenology.…

Short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) exhibiting a plateau phase provide valuable insights into the post-merger activity of their central engines. Although the physical origin of the plateau remains uncertain, the magnetar energy injection model…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-24 Chen Deng , Yong-Feng Huang , Abdusattar Kurban , Jin-Jun Geng , Fan Xu , Xiao-Fei Dong , Hao-Xuan Gao , En-Wei Liang , Liang Li

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), associated with the collapse of massive stars or the collisions of compact objects, are the most luminous events in our universe. However, there is still much to learn about the nature of the relativistic jets…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-10 Celia R. Tandon , Nicole M. Lloyd-Ronning

We consider whether the variability properties of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) that produce bright optical and longer wavelength transient afterglows (A-GRBs) are the same as a larger, inclusive sample of bright, long-duration GRBs, selected…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Joseph A. Munoz , Jonathan C. Tan

We present a powerful new tool for fitting broadband gamma-ray burst afterglow data, which can be used to determine the burst explosion parameters and the synchrotron radiation parameters. By making use of scale invariance between…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 H. J. van Eerten , A. J. van der Horst , A. I. MacFadyen

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

The detection of delayed X-ray, optical and radio emission, "afterglow", associated with $\gamma$-ray bursts (GRBs) is consistent with fireball models, where the emission are produced by relativistic expanding blast wave, driven by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 D. M. Wei , T. Lu

We calculate the magnification light curves due to stellar microlensing of gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglows. A GRB source appears on the sky as a thin ring which expands faster than the speed of light and is maximally magnified as it…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Shude Mao , Abraham Loeb

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are among the most luminous electromagnetic transients in the universe, providing unique insights into extreme astrophysical processes and serving as promising probes for cosmology. Unlike Type Ia supernovae, which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-28 Chen Deng , Yong-Feng Huang , Fan Xu , Abdusattar Kurban

Extensive observational campaigns of afterglow hunting have greatly enriched our understanding of the gamma-ray burst (GRB) phenomenon. Efforts have been made recently to explore some afterglow properties or signatures that will be tested…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Bing Zhang , Peter Meszaros , Junfeng Wang

Well-sampled optical lightcurves of 146 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are complied from the literature. Multiple optical emission components are extracted with power-law function fits to these lightcurves. We present a systematical analysis for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 En-Wei Liang , Liang Li , Qing-Wen Tang , Jie-Min Chen , Bing Zhang

Gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglows are well described by synchrotron emission originating from the interaction between a relativistic blast wave and the external medium surrounding the GRB progenitor. We introduce a code to reconstruct…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-02 H. J. van Eerten , R. A. M. J. Wijers

Models where relativistic jets from merger or accretion induced collapse in compact binary systems produce cosmological gamma ray bursts (GRBs) also predict that GRBs are accompanied by delayed emission of high energy photons, TeV…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 Arnon Dar

Gamma-ray burst (GRB) prompt emission is highly beamed, and understanding the jet geometry and beaming configuration can provide information on the poorly understood central engine and circum-burst environment. Prior to the advent of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-21 Sylvia Biscoveanu , Eric Thrane , Salvatore Vitale

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

We present a multi-variable regression analysis to several observable quantities for a sample of 15 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). The observables used in the analysis includes the isotropic gamma-ray energy (E_{gamma,iso}), the peak energy of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Enwei Liang , Bing Zhang

We describe our attempt to determine if gamma-ray burst (GRB) and afterglow emissions could both arise in external shocks for simple GRBs--bursts consisting of just a few peaks in their lightcurves. We calculate peak flux and peak frequency…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 E. McMahon , P. Kumar , A. Panaitescu