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The discovery of X-ray, optical and radio afterglows of GRBs provides an important tool for understanding these sources. Most current models envisage GRB as arising in a cataclysmic stellar event leading to a relativistically expanding…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 P. Meszaros

A plateau phase in the X-ray afterglow is observed in a significant fraction of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Previously, it has been found that there exists a correlation among three key parameters concerning the plateau phase, i.e., the end…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-11-06 Chen-Han Tang , Yong-Feng Huang , Jin-Jun Geng , Zhi-Bin Zhang

Analysis is performed on ultra-high resolution large-scale cosmological radiation-hydrodynamic simulations to, for the first time, quantify the physical environment of long-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) at the epoch of reionization. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Renyue Cen , Taysun Kimm

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), as a possible probe to extend the Hubble diagram to high redshifts, have attracted much attention recently. In this paper, we select two samples of GRBs that have a plateau phase in X-ray afterglow. One is short…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-11 J. P. Hu , F. Y. Wang , Z. G. Dai

A large fraction of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) shows a plateau phase during the X-ray afterglow emission, whose physical origin is still debated. In this work we define a sample of 30 GRBs with simultaneous X-ray and optical data during and…

The arrival of gravitational wave astronomy and a growing number of time-domain focused observatories are set to lead to a increasing number of detections of short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) launched with a moderate inclination to Earth. Being…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-05 Geoffrey Ryan , Hendrik van Eerten , Eleonora Troja , Luigi Piro , Brendan O'Connor , Roberto Ricci

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) usually occurs in a dense star-forming region with massive circum-burst medium. The small-angle scattering of intense prompt X-ray emission off the surrounding dust grains will have observable consequences, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-06-20 Yi-Nan Zhao , Lang Shao

Observations of GRB afterglows ranging from radio to X-ray frequencies generate large data sets. Careful analysis of these broad-band data can give us insight into the nature of the GRB progenitor population by yielding such information…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 E. Berger , R. Sari , D. A. Frail , S. R. Kulkarni

The afterglow of a cosmological Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) should appear on the sky as a narrow emission ring of radius 3x10^{16}cm(t/day)^{5/8} which expands faster than light. After a day, the ring radius is comparable to the Einstein radius…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Abraham Loeb , Rosalba Perna

We present an analysis of the unusual optical light curve of the gamma-ray burst GRB 081029, a long-soft burst with a redshift of z = 3.8479. We combine X-ray and optical observations from the Swift X-Ray Telescope and the Swift…

We present the spectral analysis of 14 gamma-ray bursts (GRB) X-ray afterglows in order to investigate the properties of interstellar matter (ISM) along the line of sight of GRB. We carried out a simultaneous analysis of the NIR-optical and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 M. L Conciatore , L. A. Antonelli , G. Stratta , F. Fiore , R. Perna

The onset of GRB afterglow is characterized by a smooth bump in the early afterglow lightcurve. We make an extensive search for such a feature. Twenty optically selected GRBs and 12 X-ray selected GRBs are found, among which 17 optically…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-12-09 En-Wei Liang , Shuang-xi Yi , Jin Zhang , Hou-Jun LV , Bin-Bin Zhang , Bing Zhang

We extend the standard fireball model, widely used to interpret gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglow light curves, to include energy injections, and apply the model to the afterglow light curves of GRB 990510, GRB 000301C and GRB 010222. We show…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Gudlaugur Johannesson , Gunnlaugur Bjornsson , Einar H. Gudmundsson

In this paper we further investigate the relationship, reported by Oates et al., 2012, between the optical/UV afterglow luminosity (measured at restframe 200s) and average afterglow decay rate (measured from restframe 200s onwards) of long…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-30 S. R. Oates , J. L. Racusin , M. De Pasquale , M. J. Page , A. J. Castro-Tirado , J. Gorosabel , P. J. Smith , A. A. Breeveld , N. P. M Kuin

We present a detailed broadband afterglow study of GRB 220101A ($10^4\lesssim\Delta T\lesssim10^7$ s) combining multi-wavelength data from soft X-rays until 6 GHz. The afterglow light curves in both X-ray and optical show distinct…

Observations of very early multi-wavelength afterglows are critical to reveal the properties of the radiating fireball and its environment as well as the central engine of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). We report our optical observations of GRB…

Gamma-ray bursts produce afterglows that can be observed across the electromagnetic spectrum and can provide insight into the nature of their progenitors. While most telescopes that observe afterglows are designed to rapidly react to…

Despite a generally accepted framework for describing the Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) afterglows, the nature of the compact object at the central engine and the mechanism behind the prompt emission remain debated. The striped jet model is a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-27 Michail Damoulakis , Rodolfo Barniol Duran , Dimitrios Giannios

We investigate the expected radio emission from the reverse shock of short GRBs, using the afterglow parameters derived from the observed short GRB light curves. In light of recent results suggesting that in some cases the radio afterglow…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-06 Nicole M. Lloyd-Ronning

For gravitational wave (GW) detected neutron star mergers, one of the leading candidates for electromagnetic (EM) counterparts is the afterglow from an ultra-relativistic jet. Where this afterglow is observed, it will likely be viewed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-02 Gavin P Lamb , Joseph J Fernández , Fergus Hayes , Albert K H Kong , En-Tzu Lin , Nial R Tanvir , Martin Hendry , Ik Siong Heng , Surojit Saha , John Veitch