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Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most energetic bursts of light in our universe, and rapid progenitor association of these events can lead to targeted and optimized follow-up observations, ultimately providing better insights about the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-19 Skye Strain , Nicoló Cibrario , Michela Negro , Eric Burns

Gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglow observations have allowed us to significantly constrain the engines producing these energetic explosions. Te redshift and position information provided by these afterglows have already allowed us to limit the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Chris L. Fryer , Gabriel Rockefeller , Patrick A. Young

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are generally believed to originate from two distinct progenitors, compact binary mergers and massive collapsars. Traditional and some recent machine learning-based classification schemes predominantly rely on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-22 Si-Yuan Zhu , Lang Shao , Pak-Hin Thomas Tam , Fu-Wen Zhang

The various possibilities for the progenitors of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) manifest in differing observable properties. Through deep spectroscopic and high-resolution imaging observations of some GRB hosts, I demonstrate that well-localized…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Joshua S. Bloom

We present an analysis of gamma-ray burst (GRB) progenitor classification, through their positions on a Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection (UMAP) plot, constructed by Negro et al. 2024, from Fermi-GBM waterfall plots. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-29 Sharleen N. Espinoza , Nicole M. Lloyd-Ronning , Michela Negro , Roseanne M. Cheng , Nicoló Cibrario

We review our current understanding of the progenitors of both long and short duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Constraints can be derived from multiple directions, and we use three distinct strands; i) direct observations of GRBs and their…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-07 Andrew Levan , Paul Crowther , Richard de Grijs , Norbert Langer , Dong Xu , Sung-Chul Yoon

The division of Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) into different classes, other than the "short" and "long", has been an active field of research. We investigate whether GRBs can be classified based on a broader set of parameters, including prompt…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-28 Shubham Bhardwaj , Maria G. Dainotti , Sachin Venkatesh , Aditya Narendra , Anish Kalsi , Enrico Rinaldi , Agnieszka Pollo

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

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

Phenomenologically, two classes of GRBs (long/soft vs. short/hard) are identified based on their gamma-ray properties. The boundary between the two classes is vague. Multi-wavelength observations lead to identification of two types of GRB…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Bing Zhang

We study gravitational radiation from various proposed gamma-ray burst (GRB) progenitor models, in particular compact mergers and massive stellar collapses. These models have in common a high angular rotation rate, and the final stage…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Shiho Kobayashi , Peter Meszaros

The properties of the ambient medium in which GRBs go off are an important piece of the puzzle, not only as an issue in itself, but because of their link with the nature of the progenitor. In this review, I describe and critically comment…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Davide Lazzati

We searched for periodic and quasiperiodic signal in the prompt emission of a sample of 44 bright short gamma-ray bursts detected with Fermi/GBM, Swift/BAT, and CGRO/BATSE. The aim was to look for the observational signature of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 S. Dichiara , C. Guidorzi , F. Frontera , L. Amati

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

Recently much work in studying Gamma-Ray Burst has been devoted to revealing the nature of outburst mechanism and studies of GRB afterglows. These issues have also been closely followed by the quest for identifying GRB progenitors. In this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Krzysztof Belczynski , Tomasz Bulik , Bronislaw Rudak

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

We investigate the potentially observable prompt or delayed X-ray spectral features from the currently popular gamma-ray burst (GRB) models. During the evolution of many GRB progenitors, a disk around the central GRB source is produced.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Boettcher , C. L. Fryer

Identification of Gamma Ray Burst (GRB) progenitors based on the duration of their prompt emission ($T_{90}$) has faced several roadblocks recently. Long-duration GRBs (with $T_{90} > 2s$) have traditionally been thought to be originating…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-07 Dimple , K. Misra , K. G. Arun

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

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are ultra-relativistic collimated outflows, which emit synchrotron radiation throughout the entire electromagnetic spectrum when they interact with their environment. This afterglow emission enables us to probe the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-09 M. D. Aksulu , R. A. M. J. Wijers , H. J. van Eerten , A. J. van der Horst
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