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Over the past decade our physical understanding of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) has progressed rapidly thanks to the discovery and observation of their long-lived afterglow emission. Long-duration (T < 2 s) GRBs are associated with the explosive…

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are traditionally classified into long (lGRBs) and short (sGRBs) durations based on their $T_{90}$, with lGRBs widely used as tracers of the cosmic star formation rate (SFR) due to their observed association with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-15 Qin-Mei Li , Qi-Bin Sun , Sheng-Bang Qian , Fu-Xing Li

Mergers of double neutron stars (DNSs) could lead to the formation of a long-lived massive remnant NS, which has been previously suggested to explain the AT 2017gfo kilonova emission in the famous GW170817 event. For an NS-affected…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-27 Guang-Lei Wu , Yun-Wei Yu , Jin-Ping Zhu

There is now good evidence linking short-hard GRBs with both elliptical and spiral galaxies at relatively low redshifts, redshift of about 0.2. This contrasts with the average redshift of about 2 of long-duration events, which also occur…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. R. Kulkarni

Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) and Supernovae (SNe) are among the brightest and most energetic physical processes in the universe. It is known that core-collapse SNe arise from the gravitational collapse and subsequent explosion of massive stars…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-08-02 Zach Cano

The recent discovery of a kilonova from the long duration gamma-ray burst, GRB 211211A, challenges classification schemes based on temporal information alone. Gamma-ray properties of GRB 211211A reveal an extreme event, which stands out…

Growing evidence connects the progenitor systems of the short-hard subclass of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) to the merger of compact object binaries composed by two neutron stars (NSs) or by a NS and a black hole (BH). The recent observation of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-17 Riccardo Ciolfi

Long-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are believed to be produced by the core collapse of massive stars and hence to be connected with supernovae (SNe). Indeed, for four pairs of GRBs and SNe, spectroscopically confirmed connection has been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Li-Xin Li

Context: GRB 211106A and GRB 211227A are recent gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) with initial X-ray positions suggesting associations with nearby galaxies (z < 0.7). Their prompt emission characteristics indicate GRB 211106A is a short-duration GRB…

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are generally believed to originate from two distinct progenitors, compact binary mergers and massive collapsars. Traditional and some recent machine learning-based classification schemes predominantly rely on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-22 Si-Yuan Zhu , Lang Shao , Pak-Hin Thomas Tam , Fu-Wen Zhang

GRB 060505 was the first well-known nearby (at redshift 0.089) "hybrid" gamma-ray burst that has a duration longer than 2 seconds but without the association of a supernova down to very stringent limits. The prompt $\gamma-$ray flash…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-17 Zhi-Ping Jin , Hao Zhou , Stefano Covino , Neng-Hui Liao , Xiang Li , Lei Lei , Paolo D'Avanzo , Yi-Zhong Fan , Da-Ming Wei

Precursor emission has been observed seconds to minutes before some short gamma-ray bursts. While the origins of these precursors remain unknown, one potential explanation relies on the resonance of neutron star pulsational modes with the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-21 Andrew G. Sullivan , Lucas M. B. Alves , Zsuzsa Márka , Imre Bartos , Szabolcs Márka

Gamma ray bursts (GRBs) are known to come in two duration classes, separated at ~2 s. Long bursts originate from star forming regions in galaxies, have accompanying supernovae (SNe) when near enough to observe and are likely caused by…

The favored progenitor model for Gamma-ray Bursts (GRBs) with Supernova (SN) association is the core collapse of massive stars. One possible outcome of such a collapse is a rapidly spinning, strongly magnetized neutron star ("magnetar"). We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-08 Hou-Jun Lü , Lin Lan , Bing Zhang , En-Wei Liang , David Alexander Kann , Shen-Shi Du , Jun Shen

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have traditionally been classified by their prompt emission duration and spectral hardness, with short GRBs (sGRB; $\lesssim2 \ \rm{s}$) originating from compact object mergers and long GRBs (LGRB; $\gtrsim2 \…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-09 Hannah Skobe , Brendan O'Connor , Antonella Palmese , Lewi Westcott , Christopher J. Conselice , Katelyn Breivik

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are classified as long and short events. Long GRBs (LGRBs) are associated with the end states of very massive stars, while short GRBs (SGRBs) are linked to the merger of compact objects. GRB 200826A was a peculiar…

GRB 250221A is a short gamma-ray burst (GRB) at redshift $z=0.768$, with a duration of 1.8 s and no extended emission in either Swift/Burst Alert Telescope or Konus-Wind bands. A remarkable rebrightening feature in both optical and X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-03 Xiao Tian , Hou-Jun Lü , Xiao-Xuan Liu , Xiao-Fei Dong , Jia Ren , Wen-Long Zhang , En-Wei Liang

The recent detections of the $\sim10$-s long $\gamma$-ray bursts (GRBs) 211211A and 230307A followed by softer temporally extended emission (EE) and kilonovae, point to a new GRB class. Using state-of-the-art first-principles simulations,…

It has been observationally established that supernovae (SNe) of Type Ic produce long duration gamma ray bursts (GRBs) and that neutron star mergers generate short hard GRBs. SN-Less GRBs presumably originate in a phase transition of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-06 Shlomo Dado , Arnon Dar , A. De Rújula