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Using an established classification technique, we leverage standard observations and analyses to predict the progenitors of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). This technique, utilizing support vector machine (SVM) statistics, provides a more nuanced…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-15 P. Nuessle , J. L. Racusin , N. E. White

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

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

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

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

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

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are typically classified into long and short GRBs based on their durations. However, there is a significant overlapping in the duration distributions of these two categories. In this paper, we apply the unsupervised…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-10 Si-Yuan Zhu , Wan-Peng Sun , Da-Ling Ma , Fu-Wen Zhang

[Abridged] The study of short-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) experienced a complete revolution in recent years thanks to the discovery of the first afterglows and host galaxies in May 2005. These observations demonstrated that short GRBs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-17 E. Berger

Classification of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) has been a long-standing puzzle in high-energy astrophysics. Recent observations challenge the traditional short vs. long viewpoint, where long GRBs are thought to originate from the collapse of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-02 Dimple , K. Misra , K. G. Arun

We present a comprehensive study to measure the locations of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) relative to their host galaxies. In total, we find the offsets of 20 long-duration GRBs from their apparent host galaxy centers utilizing ground-based…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. S. Bloom , S. R. Kulkarni , S. G. Djorgovski

The duration of a gamma-ray burst (GRB) is a key indicator of its physics origin, with long bursts perhaps associated with the collapse of massive stars and short bursts with mergers of neutron stars.However, there is substantial overlap in…

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

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 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

Short-duration Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) (\leq 2{\rm s}) have remained a mystery due to the lack of afterglow detection until recently. The models to interpret short GRBs invoke distinct progenitor scenarios. Here we present a generic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Y. Z. Fan , Bing Zhang , Shiho Kobayashi , Peter Meszaros

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

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

Two classes of Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), corresponding to the short/hard and the long/soft events, with a putative intermediate class, are typically considered in the observer frame. However, when considering GRB characteristics in the…

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

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) display a bimodal duration distribution, with a separation between the short- and long-duration bursts at about 2 sec. The progenitors of long GRBs have been identified as massive stars based on their association…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Edo Berger
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