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Based on the refined dynamical model proposed by us earlier for beamed $\gamma$-ray burst ejecta, we carry out detailed numerical procedure to study those $\gamma$-ray bursts with rapidly fading afterglows (i.e., $\sim t^{-2}$). It is found…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. F. Huang , Z. G. Dai , T. Lu

A gravitationally lensed gamma-ray burst (GRB) would appear as multiple bursts with identical light curves, separated in time and differing only by the scaling of their amplitudes. However, noise may make them difficult to identify as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 M. A. Nowak , S. A. Grossman

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) as the most energetic explosions in the modern universe have been studied over half a century, but the physics of the particle acceleration and radiation responsible for their observed spectral behaviors are still…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-22 Cheng-Feng Peng , Rui-Jing Lu , Wen-Qiang Liang , Zhe-geng Chen

The paper evaluates three variants of the Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU) in recurrent neural networks (RNN) by reducing parameters in the update and reset gates. We evaluate the three variant GRU models on MNIST and IMDB datasets and show that…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-01-24 Rahul Dey , Fathi M. Salem

We consider whether the variability properties of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) that produce bright optical and longer wavelength transient afterglows (A-GRBs) are the same as a larger, inclusive sample of bright, long-duration GRBs, selected…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Joseph A. Munoz , Jonathan C. Tan

The occurrence of large-scale power outages induced by natural disasters has been on the rise in a changing climate. Such power outages often last extended durations, causing substantial financial losses and socioeconomic impacts to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Chenghao Duan , Chuanyi Ji , Anwar Walid , Scott Ganz

With its rapid response, {\it Swift} has revealed plenty of unexpected properties of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). With an abundance of observations, our current understanding is only limited by complexity of early X-ray light curves. In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Lang Shao , Yi-Zhong Fan , Da-Ming Wei

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

When a fault occurs in nuclear facilities, accurately reconstructing gamma radiation fields through measurements from the mobile radiation detection (MRD) system becomes crucial to enable access to internal facility areas for essential…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-05-13 Kai Tan , Hojoon Son , Fan Zhang

Gamma-ray burst light curves show quite different patterns: from very simple to extremely complex. We present a temporal and spectral study of the light curves in three energy bands (2-5, 5-10, 10-26 keV) of ten GRBs detected by the Wide…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 L. Vetere , E. Massaro , E. Costa , P. Soffitta , G. Ventura

Long-lasting emission of short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is crucial to reveal the physical origin of the central engine as well as to detect electromagnetic (EM) counterparts to gravitational waves (GWs) from neutron star binary mergers. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-20 Shota Kisaka , Kunihito Ioka , Takanori Sakamoto

The optical and X-ray light-curves of long Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) often show a complex evolution and in most cases do not track each other. This behaviour can not be easily explained by the simplest standard afterglow models. A possible…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Nardini , G. Ghisellini , G. Ghirlanda , A. Celotti

Gamma-ray burst (GRBs) are the brightest events in the universe. For decades, astrophysicists have known about their cosmological nature. Every year, space missions such as Fermi and SWIFT detect hundreds of them. In spite of this large…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-10 Keneth Garcia-Cifuentes , Rosa L. Becerra , Fabio De Colle

The unrivalled, extreme luminosities of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) make them the favored beacons for sampling the high redshift Universe. To employ GRBs to study the cosmic terrain -- e.g., star and galaxy formation history -- GRB luminosities…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. P. Norris

The Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (\insight) detected GRB 221009A, the brightest gamma-ray burst observed to date, with all its three telescopes, i.e. High Energy telescope (HE, 20-250 keV), Medium Energy telescope (ME, 5-30 keV), and Low…

Gamma-ray bursts are most luminous explosions in the universe. Their ejecta are believed to move towards Earth with a relativistic speed. The interaction between this "relativistic jet" and a circum burst medium drives a pair of (forward…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 He Gao , Wei-Hua Lei , Yuan-Chuan Zou , Xue-Feng Wu , Bing Zhang

Thanks to the advances in robotic telescopes, the time domain astronomy leads to a large number of transient events detected in images every night. Data mining and machine learning tools used for object classification are presented. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-17 Martin Topinka

Gamma-ray bursts are the most luminous and probably the most relativistic events in the universe. The last few years have seen a tremendous increase in our knowledge of these events, but the source of the bursts still remains elusive. I…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stephan Rosswog

Progress in deep learning has spawned great successes in many engineering applications. As a prime example, convolutional neural networks, a type of feedforward neural networks, are now approaching -- and sometimes even surpassing -- human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Drew Linsley , Junkyung Kim , Vijay Veerabadran , Thomas Serre

The serendipitous observation of GRB 780506 by co-aligned gamma-ray (HEAO 1 A-4 0.02 - 6 MeV) and X-ray (HEAO 1 A-2 2-60 keV) instruments during a six hour pointing at a blank section of the sky gave us unprecedented high signal-to-noise…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 A. Connors , G. J. Hueter