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Long-lasting emission of short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is crucial to reveal the physical origin of the central engine as well as to detect electromagnetic (EM) counterparts to gravitational waves (GWs) from neutron star binary mergers. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-20 Shota Kisaka , Kunihito Ioka , Takanori Sakamoto

Gamma-ray Burst (GRB) collimation has been inferred with the observations of achromatic steepening in GRB light curves, known as jet breaks. Identifying a jet break from a GRB afterglow lightcurve allows a measurement of the jet opening…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-13 Xiang-Gao Wang , Bing Zhang , En-Wei Liang , Rui-Jing Lu , Jing Li , Long Li

Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are thought to originate at cosmological distances from the most powerful explosions in the Universe. If GRBs are not beamed then the distribution of their number as a function of Gamma-ray flux implies that they…

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

The prompt emission mechanism of gamma-ray bursts (GRB) even after several decades remains a mystery. However, it is believed that correlations between observable GRB properties given their huge luminosity/radiated energy and redshift…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-25 Maria Dainotti

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are challenging to identify due to their transient nature, complex temporal profiles, and limited observational datasets. We address this with a one-dimensional convolutional neural network integrated with an…

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) can be divided into three subclasses: X-ray flash (XRF), X-ray rich (XRR), and classical GRB (C-GRB). An X-ray flare is the rebrightening emission shown in the early X-ray afterglow of some GRBs. In this paper, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-16 Chuanxi Liu , Jirong Mao

According to our present understanding, long GRBs originate from the collapse of massive stars while short bursts are due to the coalescence of compact stellar objects. Since the afterglow evolution is determined by the circumburst density…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 S. Schulze , S. Klose , G. Björnsson , P. Jakobsson , D. A. Kann , A. Rossi , T. Krühler , J. Greiner , P. Ferrero

The properties of the ambient medium in which GRBs go off are an important piece of the puzzle, not only as an issue in itself, but because of their link with the nature of the progenitor. In this review, I describe and critically comment…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Davide Lazzati

The redshift where the first stars formed is an important and unknown milestone in cosmological structure formation. The evidence linking gamma ray bursts (GRBs) with star formation activity implies that the first GRBs occurred shortly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 James E. Rhoads

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…

The recent detections of bright optical/infrared kilonova signals following two long-duration gamma-ray bursts (LGRBs), GRB 211211A and GRB 230307A, have significantly challenged the traditional classification of GRBs. These merger-driven…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-24 Yacheng Kang , Jin-Ping Zhu , Yu-Han Yang , Ziming Wang , Eleonora Troja , Bing Zhang , Lijing Shao , Zhuo Li

The recent localization of some short-hard gamma ray bursts (GRBs) in galaxies with low star formation rates has lent support to the suggestion that these events result from compact object binary mergers. We discuss how new simulations in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Joshua A. Faber , Thomas W. Baumgarte , Stuart L. Shapiro , Keisuke Taniguchi

Starting from the Swift sample we define a complete sub-sample of 58 bright long Gamma Ray Bursts (GRB), 55 of them (95%) with a redshift determination, in order to characterize their properties. Our sample (BAT6) allows us to study the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-09-11 R. Salvaterra , S. Campana , S. Covino , P. D'Avanzo , G. Ghirlanda , G. Ghisellini , A. Melandi , G. Tagliaferri , L. Nava , S. Vergani

It is now recognized that long-duration Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are linked to the collapse of massive stars, based on the association between (low-redshift) GRBs and (type Ic) core-collapse supernovae (SNe). The census of massive stars and…

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are known to be the most violent explosions in the universe, and a variety of correlations between observable GRB properties have been proposed in literature, but none of these correlations is valid for both long…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-24 Qi Guo , Da-Ming Wei , Yuan-Zhu Wang , Zhi-Ping Jin

Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs), due to their high luminosities are detected up to redshift 10, and thus have the potential to be vital cosmological probes of early processes in the universe. Fulfilling this potential requires a large sample of…

Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) - short bursts of 100-1MeV photons arriving from random directions in the sky are probably the most relativistic objects discovered so far. Still, somehow they did not attract the attention of the relativistic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-23 Tsvi Piran

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are ideal probes of the epoch of the first stars and galaxies. We review the recent theoretical understanding of the formation and evolution of the first (so-called Population III) stars, in light of their viability…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-27 Kenji Toma , Sung-Chul Yoon , Volker Bromm

A gamma-ray burst (GRB) releases an amount of energy similar to that of a supernova explosion, which combined with its rapid variability suggests an origin related to neutron stars or black holes. Since these compact stellar remnants form…

The fireshell model for Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) naturally leads to a canonical GRB composed of a proper-GRB (P-GRB) and an afterglow. P-GRBs, introduced by us in 2001, are sometimes considered "precursors" of the main GRB event in the…