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GRB 131108A is a bright long Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) detected by the Large Area Telescope and the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Dedicated temporal and spectral analyses reveal three $\gamma$-ray flares…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-16 Donggeun Tak , Z. Lucas Uhm , Bing Zhang

The Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) detects gamma-rays in the energy range 8 keV - 40 MeV. We developed a new background fitting process of these data, based on the motion of the satellite. Here we summarize this method, called…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-03-14 Dorottya Szécsi , Zsolt Bagoly , József Kóbori , Lajos G. Balázs , István Horváth

We present the systematic spectral analyses of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) detected by the Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor (GBM) during its first ten years of operation. This catalog contains two types of spectra; time-integrated spectral fits…

We compare the prompt intrinsic spectral properties of a sample of short Gamma--ray Burst (GRB) with the first 0.3 seconds (rest frame) of long GRBs observed by Fermi/GBM. We find that short GRBs and the first part of long GRBs lie on the…

We present time-resolved spectral analysis of the steep decay segments of 29 bright X-ray flares of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) observed with the Swift/X-ray telescope, and model their lightcurves and spectral index evolution behaviors with the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-23 Hui-Jun Mu , Da-Bin Lin , Shao-Qiang Xi , Ting-Ting Lin , Yuan-Zhu Wang , Yun-Feng Liang , Lian-Zhong Lv , Jin Zhang , En-Wei Liang

The supporting instrument on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) is a wide-field gamma-ray monitor composed of 14 individual scintillation detectors, with a field of view which encompasses the entire…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Gerard Fitzpatrick , Sheila McBreen , Valerie Connaughton , Michael Briggs , the GBM Team

Detection of prompt emission by Swift-XRT provides a unique tool to study how the prompt spectrum of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) extends down to the soft X-ray band. This energy band is particularly important for prompt emission studies, since…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-05 Gor Oganesyan , Lara Nava , Giancarlo Ghirlanda , Annalisa Celotti

We calculate the prompt x-ray emission as a function of viewing angle for beamed Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) sources. Prompt x-rays are inevitable due to the less highly blueshifted photons emitted at angles greater than 1/gamma relative to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Eric Woods , Abraham Loeb

We present a comprehensive statistical analysis of Swift X-ray light-curves of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs), with more than 650 GRBs. Two questions drive this effort: (1) Does the X-ray emission retain any kind of memory of the prompt phase? (2)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Raffaella Margutti , E. Zaninoni , M. G. Bernardini , G. Chincarini

The sky distribution of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) has been intensively studied by various groups for more than two decades. Most of these studies test the isotropy of GRBs based on their sky number density distribution. In this work we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-25 Jakub Ripa , Arman Shafieloo

We have performed a systematic study of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs), which have various values in the peak energy of the ${\nu}F_{\nu}$ spectrum of the prompt emission, $E_{{\rm peak}}$, observed by \textsl{Swift}/BAT and \textsl{Fermi}/GBM,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-12 Daisuke Katsukura , Takanori Sakamoto , Makoto S. Tashiro , Yukikatsu Terada

Using the gamma-ray bursts simultaneously detected by Swift/BAT and Fermi/GBM we performed a joint spectral and temporal analysis of the prompt emission data and confirm the rough correlation between the BAT-band photon index Gamma_BAT and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Francisco Virgili , Ying Qin , Bing Zhang , Enwei Liang

The physical processes of the gamma-ray emission and particle acceleration during the prompt phase in GRBs are still unsettled. In order to perform an unambiguous physical modelling of observations, a clear identification of the emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-29 Felix Ryde , Shabnam Iyyani , Björn Ahlgren , Asaf Peer , Vidushi Sharma , Christoffer Lundman , Magnus Axelsson

Different forms of long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) Luminosity Functions are considered on the basis of an explicit physical model. The inferred flux distributions are compared with the observed ones from two samples of GRBs, Swift and Fermi…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-17 Shreya Banerjee , David Eichler , Dafne Guetta

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) show a bimodal distribution of durations, separated at a duration of ~2 s. Observations have confirmed the association of long GRBs with the collapse of massive stars. The origin of short GRBs is still being…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Anna Barnacka , Abraham Loeb

Since its launch in 2008, the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) has triggered and located on average approximately two gamma-ray bursts (GRB) every three days. Here we present the third of a series of catalogs of GRBs detected by GBM,…

We argue that recent observations of afterglows and some theoretical considerations indicate that the gamma-ray fluence may be a better measure of strength of a burst than its peak flux. We discuss how the distribution of the fluence, or…

Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-06 Vahe' Petrosian , Nicole M. Lloyd-Ronning

We examine 288 GRBs detected by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope's Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) that fell within the field-of-view of Fermi's Large Area Telescope (LAT) during the first 2.5 years of observations, which showed no…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 LAT Collaboration , GBM Collaboration

We present the results of our study of the variability time scales of a sample of 27 long Swift Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) with known redshifts. The variability time scale can help our understanding of fundamental GRB parameters such as the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-06-18 T. N. Ukwatta , K. S. Dhuga , W. C. Parke , T. Sakamoto , C. B. Markwardt , S. D. Barthelmy , D. F. Cioffi , A. Eskandarian , N. Gehrels , L. Maximon , D. C. Morris

On March 7th, 2023 the \textit{Fermi} Gamma-ray Burst Monitor observed the second highest fluence gamma-ray burst (GRB) ever, GRB~230307A. With a duration beyond 100~s, GRB~230307A contains a multitude of rapidly-varying peaks, and was so…