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Context. The progenitors of short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs) have not yet been well identified. The most popular model is the merger of compact object binaries (NS-NS/NS-BH). However, other progenitor models cannot be ruled out. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Jing-Meng Hao , Ye-Fei Yuan

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

The origin and progenitors of short-hard gamma-ray bursts remain a puzzle and a highly debated topic. Recent Swift observations suggest that these GRBs may be related to catastrophic explosions in degenerate compact stars, denoted as "Type…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-01-20 Francisco J. Virgili , Bing Zhang , Paul O'Brien , Eleonora Troja

The astrophysics of Long GRB (LGRB) progenitors as well as possible cosmological evolution in their properties still poses many open questions. Previous studies suggest that the LGRB rate density (LGRB-RD) follows the cosmic star formation…

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

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 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

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

Several correlations among Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) quantities, both in the prompt and afterglow emissions, have been established during the last decades, thus enabling the standardization of GRBs as cosmological probes. Since GRBs are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-29 Giada Bargiacchi , Maria Giovanna Dainotti , Salvatore Capozziello

The recent detections of bright optical/infrared kilonova signals following two long-duration gamma-ray bursts (LGRBs), GRB 211211A and GRB 230307A, have significantly challenged the traditional classification of GRBs. These merger-driven…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-24 Yacheng Kang , Jin-Ping Zhu , Yu-Han Yang , Ziming Wang , Eleonora Troja , Bing Zhang , Lijing Shao , Zhuo Li

The distribution of delay times between the formation of binary black hole (BBH) progenitors and their gravitational-wave (GW) merger provides important clues about their unknown formation histories. When inferring the delay time…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-07 Tom Y. Wu , Maya Fishbach

Recent observational and theoretical results suggest that Short-duration Gamma-Ray Bursts (SGRBs) are originated by the merger of compact binary systems of two neutron stars or a neutron star and a black hole. The observation of SGRBs with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-10 Carlo Enrico Petrillo , Alexander Dietz , Marco Cavaglià

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

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

Recent evidence appears to link gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) to star-forming regions in galaxies at cosmological distances. If short-lived massive stars are the progenitors of GRBs, the rate of events per unit cosmological volume should be an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Cristiano Porciani , Piero Madau

Identification of Gamma Ray Burst (GRB) progenitors based on the duration of their prompt emission ($T_{90}$) has faced several roadblocks recently. Long-duration GRBs (with $T_{90} > 2s$) have traditionally been thought to be originating…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-07 Dimple , K. Misra , K. G. Arun

For decades, gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have been broadly divided into `long'- and `short'-duration bursts, lasting more or less than 2s, respectively. However, this dichotomy does not map perfectly to the two progenitor channels that are…

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

We investigate the cosmological evolution of the luminosity and redshift of FRBs. As is the case for all extragalactic sources, we are dealing with data that are truncated by observational selection effects, the most important being the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-05 Sujay Champati , Vahé Petrosian

Pinpointing the progenitors of long duration gamma-ray bursts (LGRBs) remains an extremely important question, although it is now clear that at least a fraction of LGRBs originate in the core collapse of massive stars in type Ic supernovae,…

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are classified as long and short events. Long GRBs (LGRBs) are associated with the end states of very massive stars, while short GRBs (SGRBs) are linked to the merger of compact objects. GRB 200826A was a peculiar…