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The INTEGRAL Burst Alert System (IBAS) is the software for real time detection of Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) and the rapid distribution of their coordinates. IBAS has been running almost continuously at the INTEGRAL Science Data Center since…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Mereghetti , D. Gotz , J. Borkowski , M. Beck , A. von Kienlin , N. Lund

The Swift Gamma-Ray Explorer is designed to make prompt multiwavelength observations of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) and GRB afterglows. The X-ray Telescope (XRT) enables Swift to determine GRB positions with a few arcseconds accuracy within 100…

Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) afterglows are rapidly decaying signals that pose significant detection challenges, requiring improved methods to track their temporal evolution. In this study, we systematically compare various techniques for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-23 Léo Le Moigne , Mathieu de Bony de Lavergne , Armand Fiasson , Edna Ruiz-Velasco , David Sanchez , Kenta Terauchi

Crosscorrelation of the outputs of two Gravitational Wave (GW) detectors has recently been proposed [1] as a method for detecting statistical association between GWs and Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs). Unfortunately, the method can be effectively…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Modestino , A. Moleti

The arrival of gravitational wave astronomy and a growing number of time-domain focused observatories are set to lead to a increasing number of detections of short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) launched with a moderate inclination to Earth. Being…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-05 Geoffrey Ryan , Hendrik van Eerten , Eleonora Troja , Luigi Piro , Brendan O'Connor , Roberto Ricci

The empirical classification of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) into long and short GRBs based on their durations is already firmly established. This empirical classification is generally linked to the physical classification of GRBs originating…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-17 Jia-Wei Luo , Fei-Fei Wang , Jia-Ming Zhu-Ge , Ye Li , Yuan-Chuan Zou , Bing Zhang

ECLAIRs is a French microsatellite devoted to the observation of the prompt optical and X-ray emission of GRBs. For about 100 GRBs/yr, independent of their duration, ECLAIRs will provide high time resolution high sensitivity spectral…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Didier Barret

The Galactic center (GC) holds the closest-to-Earth supermassive black hole (SMBH), which makes it the best laboratory to study the close environment of extremely massive compact objects. Polarimetry is sensitive to geometry of the source,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-08-05 F. Marin , V. Karas , D. Kunneriath , F. Muleri , P. Soffitta

We present the Space-based multi-band astronomical Variable Objects Monitor mission (SVOM) decided by the Chinese National Space Agency (CNSA) and the French Space Agency (CNES). The mission which is designed to detect about 80 Gamma-Ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 S. Basa , J. Wei , J. Paul , S. N. Zhang

Fast and effective localization of gravitational wave (GW) events could play a crucial role in identifying possible electromagnetic counterparts, and thereby help usher in an era of GW multi-messenger astronomy. We discuss an algorithm for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-08 Hsin-Yu Chen , Daniel E. Holz

The Space multi-band Variable Object Monitor (SVOM) is an astronomical satellite jointly developed by China and France, primarily focused on the detection of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and transient sources. The SVOM satellite was launched on…

We study the characteristics of Near-Earth-Networks (NENs) of gamma-ray burst (GRB) detectors, with the objective of defining a network with all-sky, full-time localization capability for multi-messenger astrophysics. We show that a minimum…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-23 Kevin C. Hurley

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), particularly those detected by wide-field instruments such as the Fermi/GBM, pose a challenge for optical follow-up due to their large initial localisation regions, leaving many GRBs without identified afterglows.…

Context. Gamma-ray bursts can be located via arrival time signal triangulation using gamma-ray detectors in orbit throughout the solar system. The classical approach based on cross-correlations of binned light curves ignores the Poisson…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-06 J. Michael Burgess , Ewan Cameron , Dmitry Svinkin , Jochen Greiner

Gravitational-wave (GW) observations by a network of ground-based laser interferometric detectors allow us to probe the nature of GW polarizations. This would be an interesting test of general relativity (GR), since GR predicts only two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-27 Srashti Goyal , K. Haris , Ajit Kumar Mehta , Parameswaran Ajith

The gravitational lensing effect of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) holds significant and diverse applications in the field of astronomy. Nevertheless, the identification of millilensing events in GRBs presents substantial challenges. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-01 Yu Zhao , Zhao-Yang Peng , Jia-Ming Chen , Yue Yin , Ting Li

We report on the new developments of the procedure L2D+PMR for sky localization\citep{KAGRA:2013rdx} using data from two gravitational-wave detectors and the reconstruction of gravitational-wave polarization modes\citep{Poisson2014}, which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-02 Osvaldo M. Moreschi

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are short and intense emission of soft gamma-rays, which have fascinated astronomers and astrophysicists since their unexpected discovery in 1960s. The X-ray/optical/radio afterglow observations confirm the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-05-07 Yi-Zhong Fan , Tsvi Piran

After seven years of science operation, the Fermi mission has brought great advances in the study of Gamma-ray Bursts (GRBs). Over 1600 GRBs have been detected by the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor, and more than 100 of these are also detected by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-07-19 Elisabetta Bissaldi , Francesco Longo , Nicola Omodei , Giacomo Vianello , Andreas von Kienlin

In order to test the efficacy of Gamma-ray Bursts (GRB) as cosmological probes, we characterize the scatter in the correlations between six pairs of GRB observables, which have previously also been studied in arXiv:2011.14040. However, some…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-28 Sarveshkumar Purohit , Shantanu Desai