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The X/$\gamma$ ray polarimetry of the Crab pulsar/nebula is believed to hold crucial information on their emission models. In the past, several missions have shown evidence of polarized emission from the Crab. The significance of these…

To achieve confident non-zero polarization measurements for gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) we need sensitive polarimeters and bright GRBs. Here we report on the polarimetric analysis of the bright GRB 180720B using the \Fermi Gamma-ray Burst…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-26 P. Veres , W. Duvall , A. Goldstein , M. S. Briggs , J. E. Grove

Polarimetry of Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) afterglows in the last few years has been considered one of the most effective tool to probe the geometry, energetic, dynamics and the environment of GRBs. We report some of the most recent results and…

Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are the most violent explosions in the Universe. Long duration GRBs are associated with the collapse of massive stars, rivaling their host galaxies in luminosity. The discovery of the most distant spectroscopically…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 S. Campana , R. Salvaterra , G. Tagliaferri , C. Kouveliotou , J. Grindlay

POLAR is a new satellite-born detector aiming to measure the polarization of an unprecedented number of Gamma-Ray Bursts in the 50-500 keV energy range. The instrument, launched on-board the Tiangong-2 Chinese Space lab on the 15th of…

The mergers of neutron star-neutron star and neutron star-black hole binaries are the most promising gravitational wave events with electromagnetic counterparts. The rapid detection, localization and simultaneous multi-messenger follow-up…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-07 Chayan Chatterjee , Manoj Kovalam , Linqing Wen , Damon Beveridge , Foivos Diakogiannis , Kevin Vinsen

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) which are well localised ($<$1") to their host galaxy are tools for studying cosmology and the intergalactic medium. Furthermore, high-time resolution datasets of their polarisation properties can enable testing of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-11 M. Glowacki , T. Dial , A. Bera , A. T. Deller , K. Gourdji , A. Jaini , D. Scott , Y. Wang , K. Desnos , A. C. Gordon , R. L. Davies , R. M. Shannon

POLAR is a compact wide field space-borne detector dedicated for precise measurements of the linear polarization of hard X-rays emitted by transient sources in the energy range from 50 keV to 500 keV. It consists of 1600 plastic…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 Hualin Xiao , Wojtek Hajdas , Radaslow Marcinkowski

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are exceptionally bright electromagnetic events occurring daily on the sky. The prompt emission is dominated by X-/$\gamma$-rays. Since their discovery over 50 years ago, GRBs are primarily studied through spectral…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-12 M. Pearce , L. Eliasson , N. Kumar Iyer , M. Kiss , R. Kushwah , J. Larsson , C. Lundman , V. Mikhalev , F. Ryde , T. -A. Stana , H. Takahashi , F. Xie

Linear and circular polarizations of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have been detected during recent years. We adopt a simplified model to investigate GRB polarization characteristics in this paper. A compressed two-dimensional turbulent slab…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-19 Jirong Mao , Jiancheng Wang

Polarization measurements provide direct insight into the nature of astrophysical processes. Unfortunately, only a few instruments are available for this kind of measurements at gamma-ray energies, and the sources need to be very bright.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-02-11 D. Gotz , P. Laurent , F. Lebrun , F. Daigne , Z. Bosnjak

The primary scientific goal of the GRIPS mission is to revolutionize our understanding of the early universe using gamma-ray bursts. We propose a new generation gamma-ray observatory capable of unprecedented spectroscopy over a wide range…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Greiner

Since the discovery of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs), attempts have been made to detect correlated optical transient emission from these objects. In January 1999, the ROTSE I robotic telescope detected a bright optical flash simultaneous with a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eliana Palazzi , Elena Pian

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…

The POLAR-2 mission consists of 3 instruments designed with the combined aim of producing a deeper understanding of Gamma-Ray Bursts. To achieve this, POLAR-2 relies on polarisation measurements and, for the first time will provide these…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-10 Merlin Kole , Nicolas de Angelis , Jiang He , Hongbang Liu , Jianchao Sun , Fei Xie , Jimmy Zaid

The Rapid and accurate identification of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) is crucial for unraveling their origins. However, current burst search algorithms frequently miss low-threshold signals or lack universality for observations. In this study,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-27 Peng Zhang , Bing Li , Ren-zhou Gui , Shao-lin Xiong , Yu Wang , Yan-qiu Zhang , Chen-wei Wang , Jia-cong Liu , Wang-chen Xue , Chao Zheng , Zheng-hang Yu , Wen-long Zhang

Rapid response and short time latency are very important for Time Domain Astronomy, such as the observations of Gamma-ray Bursts (GRBs) and electromagnetic (EM) counterparts of gravitational waves (GWs). Based on the near real-time…

We present a catalog of early-time (~10^2-10^4s) photometry and polarimetry of all Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) optical afterglows observed with RINGO2 imaging polarimeter on the Liverpool Telescope. For the 19 optical afterglows observed, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-02 I. A. Steele , D. Kopac , D. M. Arnold , R. J. Smith , S. Kobayashi , H. E. Jermak , C. G. Mundell , A. Gomboc , C. Guidorzi , A. Melandri , J. Japelj

Gamma-ray bursts (GRB), at least those with a duration longer than a few seconds are the most energetic events in the Universe and occur at cosmological distances. The ECLAIRs micro-satellite, to be launched in 2009, will provide…

The Space-based multi-band astronomical Variable Objects Monitor (SVOM) is an approved satellite mission for Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) studies, developed in cooperation between the Chinese National Space Agency (CNSA), the Chinese Academy of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-25 Stéphane Schanne , Bertrand Cordier , Jean-Luc Atteia , Olivier Godet , Cyril Lachaud , Karine Mercier