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The cosmic formation rate of long Gamma Ray Bursts (LGRBs) encodes the evolution, across cosmic times, of their progenitors' properties and of their environment. The LGRB formation rate and the luminosity function, with its redshift…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-15 G. Ghirlanda , R. Salvaterra

Observations of long gamma-ray bursts (LGRBs) offer a unique opportunity for probing the cosmic star formation history, although whether or not LGRB rates are biased tracers of star formation rate history is highly debated. Based on an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-07-16 Jing-Meng Hao , Ye-Fei Yuan

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

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) by virtue of their high luminosities can be detected up to very high redshifts and therefore can be excellent probes of the early universe. This task is hampered by the fact that most of their characteristics have a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Vahe' Petrosian , Ellie Kitanidis , Daniel Kocevski

The principal goal of this paper is to use attempts at reconciling the Swift long gamma-ray bursts (LGRBs) with the star formation history (SFH) to compare the predictions of $\Lambda$CDM with those in the $R_{\rm h}=ct$ Universe. In the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Jun-Jie Wei , Xue-Feng Wu , Fulvio Melia , Da-Ming Wei , Long-Long Feng

The exact relationship between the long gamma-ray burst (LGRB) rate and the cosmic star formation rate (CSFR) is essential for using LGRBs as cosmological probes. In this work, we collect a large sample composed of 371 Swift LGRBs with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-18 Jing-Meng Hao , Liang Cao , You-Jun Lu , Qing-Bo Chu , Jun-Hui Fan , Ye-Fei Yuan , Yu-Hai Yuan

The cosmic evolution of gamma-ray burst (GRB) luminosity is essential for revealing the GRB physics and for using GRBs as cosmological probes. We investigate the luminosity evolution of long GRBs with a large sample of 258 {\em Swift}/BAT…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-06 Can-Min Deng , Xiang-Gao Wang , Bei-Bei Guo , Rui-Jing Lu , Yuan-Zhu Wang , Jun-Jie Wei , Xue-Feng Wu , En-Wei Liang

Long gamma-ray bursts (LGRBs) are typically thought to result from the collapse of massive stars. Nonetheless, recent observations of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) 211211A and 230307A, coupled with the low-redshift excess of LGRB event rates…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-12 Yan-Kun Qu , Zhong-Xiao Man , Zhi-Bin Zhang

We estimate the luminosity evolution and formation rate for over 900 GRBs by using redshift and luminosity data calculated by Band, Norris, $&$ Bonnell (2004) via the lag-luminosity correlation. By applying maximum likelihood techniques, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Daniel Kocevski , Edison Liang

We study the luminosity function (LF), the comoving rate and the detection rate of Long Gamma-Ray Burst (LGRBs) to high redshift, using galaxy catalogues constructed by combining high-resolution N-body simulations with semi-analytic models…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 M. A. Campisi , L. -X. Li , P. Jakobsson

We examine the relationship between a number of long gamma-ray burst (lGRB) properties (isotropic emitted energy, luminosity, intrinsic duration, jet opening angle) and redshift. We find that even when accounting for conservative detector…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Nicole M. Lloyd-Ronning , Aycin Aykutalp , Jarrett Johnson

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are powerful probes of the high-redshift universe. However, the proportion of collapsar GRBs among long GRBs and their event rate relative to the star formation rate (SFR) remain contentious issues. We assume that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-02 Yan-Kun Qu , Zhong-Xiao Man , Shuang-Xi Yi , Yu-Peng Yang

Prompted by various analyses of long (Type II) GRB rates and their relationship to the cosmic star-formation history, metallicity and luminosity function evolution, we systematically analyze these effects with a Monte Carlo code. We test…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-19 Francisco J. Virgili , Bing Zhang , Kentaro Nagamine , Jun-Hwan Choi

Brightness distribution of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) is studied in detail under the assumption that GRB rate is related to cosmic star formation rate. The two populations of the long- and short-duration bursts in the 4B BATSE catalog are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Tomonori Totani

We study the nature of long gamma ray burst (LGRB) progenitors using cosmological simulations of structure formation and galactic evolution. LGRBs are potentially excellent tracers of stellar evolution in the early universe. We developed a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-30 L. A. Bignone , L. J. Pellizza , P. B. Tissera

Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) are classified as long (LGRBs) and short (SGRBs) with collapsars and compact object mergers (neutron star (NS)-NS or NS-Black hole) as progenitors, respectively. The former are expected to follow the cosmic star…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-11 Sujay Champati , Vahé Petrosian , Maria G. Dainotti

Originating from neutron star-neutron star (NS-NS) or neutron star-black hole (NS-BH) mergers, short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs) are the first electromagnetic emitters associated with gravitational waves. This association makes the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-30 Maria Giovanna Dainotti , Vahe' Petrosian , Luke Bowden

We compute the luminosity function (LF) and the formation rate of long gamma ray bursts (GRBs) by fitting the observed differential peak flux distribution obtained by the BATSE experiment in two different scenarios: i) the GRB luminosity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 R. Salvaterra , C. Guidorzi , S. Campana , G. Chincarini , G. Tagliaferri

Long Gamma-Ray Bursts (LGRBs) have been shown to be powerful probes of the Universe, in particular to study the star formation rate up to very high redshift ($z \sim 9$). Since LGRBs are produced by only a small fraction of massive stars,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-02 Jesse T. Palmerio , Frédéric Daigne

We compute the luminosity function (LF) and the formation rate of long gamma ray bursts (GRBs) in three different scenarios: i) GRBs follow the cosmic star formation and their LF is constant in time; ii) GRBs follow the cosmic star…

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