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The properties of the progenitors of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and of their environment are encoded in their luminosity function and cosmic formation rate. They are usually recovered from a flux-limited sample based on Lynden-Bell's $c^{-}$…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-03-18 Rui-Jing Lu , Wen-Hao Chen , Wen-Qiang Liang , Cheng-Feng Peng

We compute the luminosity function (LF) and the formation rate of long gamma ray bursts (GRBs) by fitting the observed differential peak flux distribution obtained by the BATSE experiment in two different scenarios: i) the GRB luminosity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 R. Salvaterra , C. Guidorzi , S. Campana , G. Chincarini , G. Tagliaferri

The lag-luminosity relation for gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is an anti-correlation between the time lag, tau_lag, which represents the delay between the arrival of hard and soft photons, and the isotropic peak luminosity, L. In this paper, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-03-30 Walid J. Azzam

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) offer a powerful probe of the cosmic expansion history far beyond the redshift range accessible to Type Ia supernovae. However, the study of cosmological models using GRBs is hindered by the circularity problem,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-11 Nilanjana Bagchi Aurpa , Abha Dev Habib , Nisha Rani

Context. Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), observed at redshifts as high as 9.4, could serve as valuable probes for investigating the distant Universe. However, this necessitates an increase in the number of GRBs with determined redshifts, as…

Studies of the cosmic gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and their host galaxies are starting to provide interesting or even unique new insights in observational cosmology. GRBs represent a new way of identifying a population of star-forming galaxies…

Long gamma-ray bursts (LGRBs) are typically thought to result from the collapse of massive stars. Nonetheless, recent observations of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) 211211A and 230307A, coupled with the low-redshift excess of LGRB event rates…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-12 Yan-Kun Qu , Zhong-Xiao Man , Zhi-Bin Zhang

Studies of high-redshift gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) provide important information about the early Universe such as the rates of stellar collapsars and mergers, the metallicity content, constraints on the re-ionization period, and probes of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-23 T. N. Ukwatta , P. R. Wozniak , N. Gehrels

In this paper, we firstly calibrate the Amati relation (the $E_{\rm p}-E_{\rm iso}$ correlation) of gamma ray bursts (GRBs) at low redshifts ($z<0.8$) via Gaussian process by using the type Ia supernovae samples from Pantheon+ under the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-12 Yuhao Mu , Baorong Chang , Lixin Xu

We review the uncertainties in high-z star-formation rate (SFR) measures and the constraints that one obtains from high-z gamma-ray burst (GRB) rates on them. We show that at the present time, the GRB rates per unit star-formation at z>3…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-10-20 R. Chary , P. Petitjean , B. Robertson , M. Trenti , E. Vangioni

The cosmic formation rate of long Gamma Ray Bursts (LGRBs) encodes the evolution, across cosmic times, of their progenitors' properties and of their environment. The LGRB formation rate and the luminosity function, with its redshift…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-15 G. Ghirlanda , R. Salvaterra

Gravitational microlensing of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) provides a unique opportunity to probe compact dark matter and small-scale structures in the Universe. However, identifying such microlensed GRBs within large data sets is a significant…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-20 Mohammad H. Zhoolideh Haghighi , Zeinab Kalantari , Sohrab Rahvar , Alaa Ibrahim

We use Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) data from Y. Wang (2008) to put additional constraints on a set of cosmological dark energy models based on the holographic principle. GRBs are among the most complex and energetic astrophysical events known…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-12 Alexander Bonilla Rivera , Jairo Ernesto Castillo Hernandez

We propose a novel method to extract the imprint of gravitational lensing by Pop III stars in the light curves of Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs). Significant portions of GRBs can originate in hypernovae of Pop III stars and be gravitationally…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Y. Hirose , M. Umemura , A. Yonehara , J. Sato

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are powerful probes of the high-redshift universe. However, the proportion of collapsar GRBs among long GRBs and their event rate relative to the star formation rate (SFR) remain contentious issues. We assume that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-02 Yan-Kun Qu , Zhong-Xiao Man , Shuang-Xi Yi , Yu-Peng Yang

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are cosmological explosions which carry valuable information from the distant past of the expanding universe. One of the greatest discoveries in modern cosmology is the finding of the accelerated expansion of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-15 Rupal Basak , A. R. Rao

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most violent explosions in the Universe and can be used to explore the properties of high-redshift universe. It is believed that the long GRBs are associated with the deaths of massive stars. So it is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 H. Yu , F. Y. Wang , Z. G. Dai , K. S. Cheng

The gamma-ray burst (GRB) rate is essential for revealing the connection between GRBs, supernovae and stellar evolution. Additionally, the GRB rate at high redshift provides a strong probe of star formation history in the early universe.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-25 Amy Lien , Takanori Sakamoto , Neil Gehrels , David M. Palmer , Scott D. Barthelmy , Carlo Graziani , John K. Cannizzo

We predict the redshift distribution of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) assuming that they trace the cosmic star formation history. We find that a fraction >~50% of all GRBs on the sky originate at a redshift z >~5, even though the fraction of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-19 Volker Bromm , Abraham Loeb

We show that the time variability of a gamma-ray burst (GRB) appears to be correlated with the absolute luminosity of the burst: smooth bursts are intrinsically less luminous. This Cepheid-like relationship can be used to determine the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. E. Fenimore , E. Ramirez-Ruiz