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We use a wavelet technique to investigate the time variations in the light curves from a sample of GRBs detected by Fermi and Swift. We focus primarily on the behavior of the flaring region of Swift-XRT light curves in order to explore…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-08-12 E. Sonbas , G. A. MacLachlan , A. Shenoy , K. S. Dhuga , W. C. Parke

GRB080503 was classified as a short GRB with extended emission (Perley et al. 2009). The origin of such extended emission (found in about a quarter of Swift short GRBs) is still unclear and may provide some clues to the identity of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 Franck Genet , Nathaniel R. Butler , Jonathan Granot

A persistent, thin, micro-nano sr. beamed gamma jet, may be ejected from BH and Pulsars, powered by ultra-relativistic electron pairs. These jet while precessing and spinning are originated by Inverse Compton and-or Synchrotron Radiation at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 D. Fargion , O. Lanciano , P. Oliva

We present the first Swift Ultra-Violet/Optical Telescope (UVOT) gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglow catalog. The catalog contains data from over 64,000 independent UVOT image observations of 229 GRBs first detected by Swift, the High Energy…

A class of long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) with a plateau phase in their X-ray afterglows obeys a three-dimensional (3D) relation (Dainotti et al. 2016), between the rest-frame time at the end of the plateau, Ta, its corresponding X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-01 Maria Dainotti , Christian Gilbertson , Sergey Postnikov , Shigehiro Nagataki , Richard Willingale

Binary neutron star mergers are considered to be the most favorable sources that produce electromagnetic (EM) signals associated with gravitational waves (GWs). These mergers are the likely progenitors of short duration gamma-ray bursts…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-26 Adithan Kathirgamaraju , Rodolfo Barniol Duran , Dimitrios Giannios

Short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are explosive transients caused by binary mergers of compact objects containing at least one neutron star. Multi-wavelength afterglow observations provide constraints on the physical parameters of the jet, its…

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are one of the most extreme transients in the universe, but their explosion and emission mechanism remains unclear. To investigate the nature of GRB jets, here we focus on X-ray flares (XFs) and extended emissions…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-02 Riki Matsui , Shigeo S. Kimura , Kohta Murase , Bing Theodore Zhang

The GRB 991216 and its relevant data acquired from the BATSE experiment and RXTE and Chandra satellites are used as a prototypical case to test the theory linking the origin of gamma ray bursts (GRBs) to the process of vacuum polarization…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 R. Ruffini , C. L. Bianco , P. Chardonnet , F. Fraschetti , S. -S. Xue

In this paper we examine gamma-ray and optical data of GRB 091024, a gamma-ray burst (GRB) with an extremely long duration of T90~1020 s, as observed with the Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor (GBM). We present spectral analysis of all three…

We use a sample of 19 Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) that exhibit single-peaked optical light curves to test the standard fireball model by investigating the relationship between the time of the onset of the afterglow and the temporal rising…

Based on recent models of relativistic jet formation by thermal energy deposition around black hole-torus systems, the relation between the on- and off-axis appearance of short, hard gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is discussed in terms of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 H. -Th. Janka , M. -A. Aloy , P. A. Mazzali , E. Pian

Long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) frequently exhibit complex prompt emission structures with multiple temporally distinct episodes, such as a main emission (ME) phase followed by a weak extended emission (EE) tail. Whether these subcomponents…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-27 Liang Li , Xiao Wang , Zhi-Li Cui , Cheng-Long Xiao , Wen Li , Yu Wang , Zi-Gao Dai , Rong-Gen Cai

In Budai et al. (2020) we argued that angular non-stationarities of gamma-ray burst (GRB) jets can result in a statistical connection between the angle values deduced from jet break times and the variabilities of prompt light curves. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-28 Andor Budai , Peter Raffai , Balint Borgulya , Brian Albert Dawes , Gabor Szeifert

We develop a new method for simultaneous timing and spectral studies of Gamma Ray Burst (GRB) prompt emission and apply it to make a pulse-wise description of the prompt emission of GRB 090618, the brightest GRB detected in the Fermi era.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Rupal Basak , A. R. Rao

The detection of GW170817 in gravitational waves and gamma rays revealed that short gamma-ray bursts are associated with the merger of neutron-stars. Gamma rays are thought to result from the formation of collimated jets, but the details of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-10 Amanda Farah , Reed Essick , Zoheyr Doctor , Maya Fishbach , Daniel E. Holz

Lorentz-invariance violation (LV) at energy scales approaching the Planck regime serves as a critical probe for understanding quantum gravity phenomenology. Astrophysical observations of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) present a promising avenue…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-12 Hanlin Song , Bo-Qiang Ma

There have now been three supernova-associated gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) at redshift z < 0.17, namely 980425, 030329, and 031203, but the nearby and under-luminous GRBs 980425 and 031203 are distinctly different from the `classical' or…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 D. M. Coward

We have analyzed the prompt and afterglow characteristics of the intermediate luminosity burst ``GRB 210210A". Our prompt emission analysis indicates that GRB 210210A is among the softest long GRBs detected by the Swift-BAT. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-10 Rahul Gupta , A. K. Ror , S. B. Pandey , J. Racusin , M. Moss , A. Aryan , N. Klingler , A. J. Castro-Tirado

Short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs), occasionally followed by a long and spectrally soft extended emission, are associated with compact object mergers (COMs). Yet, a few recent long GRBs (LGRBs) show compelling evidence for a COM origin, in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-09 R. Maccary , C. Guidorzi , M. Maistrello , S. Kobayashi , M. Bulla , R. Moradi , S. -X. Yi , C. W. Wang , W. L. Zhang , W. -J. Tan , S. -L Xiong , S. -N. Zhang