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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

We present a maximum likelihood (ML) algorithm that is fast enough to detect gamma-ray transients in real time on low-performance processors often used for space applications. We validate the routine with simulations and find that, relative…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-09 Matthew Kerr , Wade Duvall , Neil Johnson , Richard Woolf , J. Eric Grove , Hannah Kim

Gamma Ray Bursts (GRB) observed up to redshifts $z>8$ are fascinating objects to study due to their still unexplained relativistic outburst mechanisms and a possible use to test cosmological models. Our analysis of 77 GRB afterglows with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 M. G. Dainotti , R. Willingale , S. Capozziello , V. F. Cardone , M. Ostrowski

Microlensing of a gamma-ray burst afterglow by an intervening star can be used to infer the radial structure of the afterglow image. Near the peak of the microlensing event, the outer edge of the image is more highly magnified than its…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 B. Scott Gaudi , Abraham Loeb

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are widely proposed as an effective probe to trace the Hubble diagram of the Universe in high redshift range. However, the calibration of GRBs is not as easy as that of type-Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). Most calibrating…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-21 Hai-Nan Lin , Xin Li , Sai Wang , Zhe Chang

The analysis of 176 gamma ray burst (GRB) afterglow plateaus observed by Swift from GRBs with known redshifts revealed that the subsample of long GRBs associated with supernovae (LONG-SNe) - 19 events - presents a very high correlation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-12 Maria G. Dainotti , Shigehiro Nagataki , Keichi Maeda , Sergey Postnikov , Elena Pian

Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) are the most energetic sources in the universe and among the farthest known astrophysical sources. These features make them appealing candidates as standard candles for cosmological applications so that studying the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-03-28 M. G. Dainotti , V. F. Cardone , S. Capozziello , M. Ostrowski , R. Willingale

As one of the most energetic and brightest events, gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) can be treated as a promising probe of the high-redshift universe. Similar to type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia), GRBs with same physical origin could be treated as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-09 Jia-Lun Li , Yu-Peng Yang , Shuang-Xi Yi , Jian-Ping Hu , Fa-Yin Wang , Yan-Kun Qu

The first Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) catalog presented by the Fermi-Large Area Telescope (LAT) collaboration includes 28 GRBs, detected above 100 MeV over the first three years since the launch of the Fermi mission. However, more than 100 GRBs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-07 Elisabetta Bissaldi , Tristano Di Girolamo , Francesco Longo , Piero Vallania , Carlo Vigorito

Gamma-ray Bursts (GRBs) are valuable probes of cosmic star formation reaching back into the epoch of reionization, and a large dataset with known redshifts ($z$) is an important ingredient for these studies. Usually, $z$ is measured using…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-13 Dhruv S. Bal , Aditya Narendra , Maria Giovanna Dainotti , Nikita S. Khatiya , Aleksander L. Lenart , Dieter H. Hartmann

A significant fraction of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) exhibit a plateau in the early X-ray afterglow light curve, whose mechanism remains uncertain. While the post-plateau normal decay index ($\alpha_2$) is commonly used to constrain the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-03 Xiao-Fei Dong , Yong-Feng Huang , Chen Deng , Ze-Cheng Zou , Jin-Jun Geng , Fan Xu , Chen-Ran Hu , Orkash Amat , Xiu-Juan Li , Liang Li , Abdusattar Kurban

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have emerged as powerful cosmological probes for exploring the distant Universe, owing to their immense luminosities and detectability at high redshifts. Several empirical correlations have been established,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-13 T. K. M. Aldowma , S. Razzaque , R. Martinelli , R. Gupta , F. Longo , N. Omodei , N. Di Lalla , J. L. Racusin , A. H. Airasca

A new procedure for smoothing a gamma-ray burst (GRB) lightcurve and calculating its variability is presented. Applying the procedure to a sample of 25 long GRBs, we have obtained a very tight correlation between the variability and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Li-Xin Li , Bohdan Paczynski

Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) are a powerful probe of the high redshift Universe. We present a tool to estimate the detection rate of high-z GRBs by a generic detector with defined energy band and sensitivity. We base this on a population model…

A class of long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) with a plateau phase in their X-ray afterglows obeys a three-dimensional (3D) relation (Dainotti et al. 2016), between the rest-frame time at the end of the plateau, Ta, its corresponding X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-01 Maria Dainotti , Christian Gilbertson , Sergey Postnikov , Shigehiro Nagataki , Richard Willingale

The High Energy X-ray telescope (HE) on-board the Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (\textit{Insight}-HXMT) can serve as a wide Field of View (FOV) gamma-ray monitor with high time resolution ($\mu$s) and large effective area (up to thousands…

The classification of Gamma-Ray Bursts has long been an unresolved problem. Early long and short burst classification based on duration is not convincing due to the significant overlap in duration plot, which leads to different views on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-10 Jia-Ming Chen , Ke-Rui Zhu , Zhao-Yang Peng , Li Zhang

The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope with its main instrument onboard, the Large Area Telescope (LAT), opened a new era in high-energy astrophysics and in particular for the study of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs), which are short flashes of -rays…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-12-03 Aurelien Bouvier

In this work we study the distribution of temporal power-law decay indices, $\alpha$, in the Gamma Ray Burst (GRB) afterglow phase, fitted for $176$ GRBs (139 long GRBs, 12 short GRBs {\it with extended emission} and 25 X-Ray Flashes…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-07 Roberta Del Vecchio , Maria Giovanna Dainotti , Michał Ostrowski

The best measure of the Universe should be done using a standard "ruler" at any redshift. Type Ia Supernovae (SN Ia) probe the universe up to z$\sim$1.5, while the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) primary anisotropies concern basically…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Ghirlanda , G. Ghisellini , D. Lazzati , C. Firmani