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Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), as extremely energetic explosions in the universe, are widely believed to consist of two stages: the prompt phase and the subsequent afterglow. Recent studies indicate that some high-energy photons are emitted…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-02 Yingtian Chen , Bo-Qiang Ma

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) can be probes of the early universe, but currently, only 26% of GRBs observed by the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory GRBs have known redshifts ($z$) due to observational limitations. To address this, we estimated the…

Traditionally gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are classified in the $T_{90}$-hardness ratio two-dimensional plane into long/soft and short/hard GRBs. In this paper, we suggest to add the "amplitude" of GRB prompt emission as the third dimension as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Hou-Jun Lü , Bing Zhang , En-Wei Liang , Bin-Bin Zhang , Takanori Sakamoto

The characteristics of the Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) environment may reflect the differences in GRB progenitors: long GRBs are expected to be found in high-density star-forming regions of the GRB host galaxies, while short ones may be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-07-24 Dounia Saez , Diego Götz

Gamma-ray burst (GRBs) are the brightest events in the universe. For decades, astrophysicists have known about their cosmological nature. Every year, space missions such as Fermi and SWIFT detect hundreds of them. In spite of this large…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-10 Keneth Garcia-Cifuentes , Rosa L. Becerra , Fabio De Colle

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) can be classified with their linearly dependent parameters alongside the standard $T_{90}$ distribution. The Generalized linear mixture model(GLM) identifies the number of linear dependencies in a two-parameter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-10 Sourav Dutta , Sunanda , Reetanjali Moharana , Manish Kumar

One of the most surprising gamma-ray burst (GRB) features discovered with the Swift-X ray telescope (XRT) is a plateau phase in the early X-ray afterglow light curves. These plateaus are observed in the majority of long GRBs, while their…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-09 Luca Guglielmi , Giulia Stratta , Simone Dall'Osso , Paramvir Singh , Marcella Brusa , Rosalba Perna

Early X-ray emission of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) traces the transition between the prompt emission and the afterglow radiation, and its rapid flux decline is often interpreted as the tail of the prompt emission. As such, it can offer…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-08 Annarita Ierardi , Gor Oganesyan , Stefano Ascenzi , Marica Branchesi , Biswajit Banerjee , Samuele Ronchini

Short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) exhibiting a plateau phase provide valuable insights into the post-merger activity of their central engines. Although the physical origin of the plateau remains uncertain, the magnetar energy injection model…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-24 Chen Deng , Yong-Feng Huang , Abdusattar Kurban , Jin-Jun Geng , Fan Xu , Xiao-Fei Dong , Hao-Xuan Gao , En-Wei Liang , Liang Li

Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) have been conventionally bifurcated into two distinct categories dubbed "short" and "long", depending on whether their durations are less than or greater than two seconds respectively. However, many authors have…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-01 Soham Kulkarni , Shantanu Desai

In an effort to understand the puzzle of classifying gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), we perform a systematic study of {\it Swift} GRBs and investigate several short GRB issues. Though short GRBs have a short ($\lesssim2$ s) prompt duration as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-08-24 Lang Shao , Zi-Gao Dai , Yi-Zhong Fan , Fu-Wen Zhang , Zhi-Ping Jin , Da-Ming Wei

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are a mixed class of sources consisting of, at least, the long duration and short-hard subclasses, the X-ray flashes, and the low-luminosity GRBs. In all cases, the release of enormous amounts of energy on a short…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-09-24 Charles D. Dermer , Chris L. Fryer

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are widely believed to be from massive collapsars and/or compact binary mergers, which accordingly, would generate long and short GRBs, respectively. The details on this classification scheme have been in constant…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-02 Shuai Zhang , Lang Shao , Bin-Bin Zhang , Jin-Hang Zou , Hai-Yuan Sun , Yu-Jie Yao , Lin-Lin Li

Four years after the launch the Swift satellite the nature of the Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) broadband afterglow behaviour is still an open issue ad the standard external shock fireball models cannot easily explain the puzzling combined…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-08-05 M. Nardini , G. Ghisellini , G. Ghirlanda , A. Celotti

Gamma ray bursts (GRBs) are classified into long and short categories based on their durations. Broad band studies suggest that these two categories of objects roughly correspond to two different classes of progenitor systems, i.e. compact…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-15 Ye Li , Bing Zhang , Hou-Jun Lü

A multivariate analysis of gamma-ray burst (GRB) bulk properties is presented to discriminate between distinct classes of GRBs. Several variables representing burst duration, fluence and spectral hardness are considered. Two multivariate…

Correlation studies of prompt and afterglow emissions from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) between different spectral bands has been difficult to do in the past because few bursts had comprehensive and intercomparable afterglow measurements. In…

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are fascinating events due to their panchromatic nature. We study optical plateaus in GRB afterglows via an extended search into archival data. We comprehensively analyze all published GRBs with known redshifts and…

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…

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