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The discovery of a number of gamma-ray bursts with duration exceeding 1,000 seconds, in particular the exceptional case of GRB 111209A with a duration of about 25,000 seconds, has opened the question on whether these bursts form a new class…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-09 Michel Boer , Bruce Gendre , Giulia Stratta

The recent coincident detection of gravitational waves (GW) from a binary neutron star merger with aLIGO/Virgo and short-lived gamma-ray emission with Fermi/GBM (called GW 170817) is a milestone for the establishment of multi-messenger…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-17 J. Michael Burgess , Jochen Greiner , Damien Begue , Dimitrios Giannios , Francesco Berlato , Vladimir M. Lipunov

Evidence is growing for a class of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) characterized by an initial ~0.1-1 s spike of hard radiation followed, after a ~3-10 s lull in emission, by a softer period of extended emission lasting ~10-100 s. In a few…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 B. D. Metzger , E. Quataert , Todd A. Thompson

GRB 211211A is a peculiar long Gamma-ray burst (GRB) with very high brightness and short burst properties. It's full lightcurve consists of three emission episodes, i.e. a precursor, a main burst and a extended emission. We find a recently…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-30 Zhao-Yang Peng , Jia-Ming Chen , Jirong Mao

Before the BATSE/GRO launch GRBs seem to be a uniform phenomenon with duration up to about 100 seconds. The BATSE has detected many events longer than 100 s and a few longer than 500s. We performed the off-line scan of the 1024 ms…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-06 Ya. Tikhomirova , B. E. Stern

We review the current scenario of long-duration Gamma-ray burst (LGRB) progenitors, and in addition, present models of massive stars for a mass range of $10\text{--}150 \, \mathrm{M}_\odot$ with $\Delta \mathrm{M}=10 \, \mathrm{M}_\odot$…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-25 Arpita Roy

Short gamma-ray bursts are expected to be associated with compact object mergers, such as binary neutron star or neutron star-black hole systems, and are key high-energy multimessenger events. The detection of GRB 170817A, coinciding with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-25 I. F. Giudice , L. Izzo , R. Martone , M. T. Botticella , E. Cappellaro , R. De Rosa , M. Della Valle

Long and short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), canonically separated at around 2 seconds duration, are associated with different progenitors: the collapse of a massive star and the merger of two compact objects, respectively. GRB 191019A was a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-28 Davide Lazzati , Rosalba Perna , Benjamin Gompertz , Andrew Levan

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have traditionally been classified by their prompt emission duration and spectral hardness, with short GRBs (sGRB; $\lesssim2 \ \rm{s}$) originating from compact object mergers and long GRBs (LGRB; $\gtrsim2 \…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-09 Hannah Skobe , Brendan O'Connor , Antonella Palmese , Lewi Westcott , Christopher J. Conselice , Katelyn Breivik

Gamma-ray burst (GRB) dust echoes were first proposed as an alternative explanation for the supernova-like (SN-like) components to the afterglows of GRB 980326 and GRB 970228. However, the spectroscopic identification of Type Ic SN 2003dh…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jane A. Moran , Daniel E. Reichart

The merger of compact binary stars produces short gamma-ray bursts (sGRBs), involving channels such as neutron star - neutron star (BNS) and neutron star - black hole (NS-BH). The association between sGRB 170817A and gravitational wave GW…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-14 Qin-Mei Li , Qi-Bin Sun

We review recent progress in our understanding of the nature of gamma ray bursts (GRBs) and in particular, of the relationship between short GRBs and long GRBs. The first example of a short GRB is described. The coincidental occurrence of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-10-08 Remo Ruffini

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 a mixed class of sources consisting of, at least, the long duration and short-hard subclasses, the X-ray flashes, and the low-luminosity GRBs. In all cases, the release of enormous amounts of energy on a short…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-09-24 Charles D. Dermer , Chris L. Fryer

We have carried out a detailed study of the morphology of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) with time duration less than 100 ms that includes: (1) a fast-Fourier spectrum analysis, (2) a comparison with the Stern analysis of longer bursts, (3) an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 David B. Cline , Christina Matthey , Stanislaw Otwinowski

We have applied two different automatic classifier algorithms to the BATSE Current GRB Catalog data and we obtain three different classes of GRBs. Our results confirm the existence of a third, intermediate class of GRBs, with mean duration…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Andreu Balastegui , Pilar Ruiz-Lapuente , Ramon Canal

Ultra-long gamma-ray bursts (ULGRBs), a rare class of high-energy transients with durations $>10^3$s, remain poorly understood. GRB 250702B is notable for its multi-hour prompt emission, an X-ray pre-peak emission starting $\sim$1 day…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-23 Paz Beniamini , Hagai B. Perets , Jonathan Granot

The most popular progenitor model for short duration Gamma-Ray bursts (sGRBs) is the merger of two compact objects. However, the short GRB population exhibit a certain diversity: some bursts display an extended emission (EE), continuing in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-26 Nikhil Anand , Mustafa Shahid , Lekshmi Resmi

Macrolensing of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is expected to manifest as a GRB recurring with the same light curve and spectrum as a previous one, but with a different flux and a slightly offset position. Identifying such lensed GRBs may give…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-22 Björn Ahlgren , Josefin Larsson

The accuracy and reliability of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) as distance indicators are strongly restricted by their systematic errors which are larger than statistical errors. These systematic errors might come from either intrinsic variations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Ryo Tsutsui , Takashi Nakamura , Daisuke Yonetoku , Toshio Murakami , Yoshiyuki Morihara , Keitaro Takahashi