English
Related papers

Related papers: ClassiPyGRB: Machine Learning-Based Classification…

200 papers

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most luminous astrophysical events observed so far. They are conventionally classified into long and short ones depending on their time duration, $T_{90}$. Because of the advantage their high redshifts offer,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Shi Qi , Tan Lu

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are flashes of high-energy radiation arising from energetic cosmic explosions. Bursts of long (>2 s) duration are produced by the core-collapse of massive stars, those of short (< 2 s) duration by the merger of two…

The brightest Gamma-ray burst (GRB) ever, GRB 221009A, displays ultra-long GRB (ULGRB) characteristics, with a prompt emission duration exceeding 1000 s. To constrain the origin and central engine of this unique burst, we analyze its prompt…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-04 Amit Kumar Ror , Rahul Gupta , Amar Aryan , Shashi Bhushan Pandey , S. R. Oates , A. J. Castro-Tirado , Sudhir Kumar

The Swift spacecraft detects and autonomously observes ~100 Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) per year, ~96% of which are detected by the X-ray telescope (XRT). GRBs are accompanied by optical transients and the field of ground-based follow-up of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-11-06 P. A. Evans , L. G. Tyler , A. P. Beardmore , J. P. Osborne

Determining the kinds of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) has been of interest to astronomers for many years. We analyzed 1599 GRBs from the Burst and Transient Source Experiment (BATSE) 4Br catalogue using $t$-mixtures-model-based clustering on all…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-28 Souradeep Chattopadhyay , Ranjan Maitra

Two classes of gamma-ray bursts have been identified in the BATSE catalogs characterized by durations shorter and longer than about 2 seconds. There are, however, some indications for the existence of a third type of burst. Swift satellite…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-07-20 I. Horvath , L. G. Balazs , Z. Bagoly , J. Kelemen , P. Veres , G. Tusnady

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

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have been phenomenologically classified into long and short populations based on the observed bimodal distribution of duration. Multi-wavelength and multi-messenger observations in recent years have revealed that in…

Gamma-ray Bursts (GRBs) are one of the most energetic phenomena in the cosmos, whose study probes physics extremes beyond the reach of laboratories on Earth. Our quest to unravel the origin of these events and understand their underlying…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-25 Michela Negro , Nicoló Cibrario , Eric Burns , Joshua Wood , Adam Goldstein , Tito Dal Canton

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are generally classified as Type~I GRBs, which originate from compact binary mergers, and Type~II GRBs, which originate from massive collapsars. The traditional correspondence between short--Type~I GRBs and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-22 Si-Yuan Zhu , Pak-Hin Thomas Tam , Fu-Wen Zhang , Hui-Ying Deng , Bing Zhang

The Burst and Transient Source Experiment (BATSE) classifies cosmological gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) into short (less than 2 s) and long (over 2 s) events, commonly attributed to mergers of compact objects and, respectively, peculiar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Maurice H. P. M. van Putten , Gyeong Min Lee , Massimo Della Valle , Lorenzo Amati , Amir Levinson

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are usually classified into long/short categories according to their durations, but controversy still exists in this aspect. Here we re-examine the long/short classification of GRBs and further compare the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-02 Juan-Juan Luo , Liang Zhang , Li-Yun Zhang , Yong-Feng Huang , Jia-Quan Lin , Jun-Wang Lu , Xiao-Fei Dong

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are extremely energetic events at cosmological distances. They provide unique laboratory to investigate fundamental physical processes under extreme conditions. Due to extreme luminosities, GRBs are detectable at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-21 Poonam Chandra

A gamma-ray burst (GRB) is a strong and fast gamma-ray emission from the explosion of stellar systems (massive stars or coalescing binary compact stellar remnants), happening at any possible redshift, and detected by space missions.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-07-15 Sandra Savaglio

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are bright flashes of electromagnetic radiation originating from the core collapse of massive stars or the merger of compact objects. It has long been theorized that GRBs can emit very high-energy (VHE) gamma rays…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-12 Halim Ashkar , Stephen Fegan , Aurélie Sangaré

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the universe's most energetic phenomena (isotropic luminosity $\sim 10^{51} - 10^{54}$ ergs/s) lasting for a very short duration ($\sim$ milliseconds - a few seconds). Even after an average of one GRB detected…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-13 Soumya Gupta , Sunder Sahayanathan , Saharsh Shanu , Rishabh Nath

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are short and intense flashes at the cosmological distances, which are the most luminous explosions in the Universe. The high luminosities of GRBs make them detectable out to the edge of the visible universe. So,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-17 Patrick Petitjean , F. Y. Wang , X. F. Wu , J. J. Wei

We examined the properties of a sample of BATSE Gamma--Ray Bursts (GRBs) comprising events which have indications of association with a supernova (SN), some on the basis of indications of re--brightening in the optical afterglow light…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Z. Bosnjak , A. Celotti , G. Ghirlanda , M. Della Valle , E. Pian

Context. Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have traditionally been classified by duration into long (LGRBs) and short (SGRBs), with the former believed to originate from massive star collapses and the latter from compact binary mergers. However,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-15 R. Maccary , C. Guidorzi , A. E. Camisasca , M. Maistrello , S. Kobayashi , L. Amati , L. Bazzanini , M. Bulla , L. Ferro , F. Frontera , A. Tsvetkova