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Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are tremendous explosions visible across most of the Universe, certainly out to redshifts of z=4.5 and likely out to z~10. Recently, GRBs have been found to have a roughly constant explosive energy as well as to have…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Bradley E. Schaefer

A planned rapid submillimeter (submm) Gamma Ray Burst (GRBs) follow-up observations conducted using the Greenland Telescope (GLT) is presented. The GLT is a 12-m submm telescope to be located at the top of the Greenland ice sheet, where the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-23 Yuji Urata , Kuiyun Huang , Keiichi Asada , Hiroyuki Hirashita , Makoto Inoue , Paul T. P. Ho

The recent detection of a very high energy (VHE) emission from Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) above 100 GeV performed by the MAGIC and H.E.S.S. collaborations, has represented a significant, long-awaited result for the VHE astrophysics community.…

On April 28, 2016, the Lomonosov satellite, equipped with a number of scientific instruments, was launched into orbit. Here we present briefly some of the results obtained with the first orbital telescope of extreme energy cosmic rays TUS…

With the launch of Gaia satellite, detection of many different types of transient sources will be possible, one of them being optical afterglows of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Using the knowledge of the satellites dynamics and properties of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 J. Japelj , A. Gomboc

We discuss our ongoing program of Target of Opportunity sub-millimeter observations of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) using the Sub-millimetre Common-User Bolometer Array (SCUBA) on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT). Sub-millimeter…

The Einstein Probe (EP) satellite, dedicated at time-domain high-energy astrophysics and multi-messenger astronomy, was recently launched and successfully put into operation. The wide-field X-ray telescope (WXT, 0.5-4 keV) onboard has…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-22 Hao-Xuan Gao , Jin-Jun Geng , Yi-Fang Liang , Hui Sun , Fan Xu , Xue-Feng Wu , Yong-Feng Huang , Zi-Gao Dai , Wei-Min Yuan

The gamma-ray burst (GRB) 010222 is the brightest GRB detected to date by the BeppoSAX satellite. Prompt identification of the associated optical transient (OT) allowed for spectroscopy with the Tillinghast 1.5m telescope at F. L. Whipple…

Context. Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) can be detected at cosmological distances and therefore can be used to study the contents and phases of the early Universe. The 4-150 keV wide-field trigger camera ECLAIRs to fly on board the Space-based…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-22 Miguel Llamas Lanza , Olivier Godet , Benjamin Arcier , Manal Yassine , Jean-Luc Atteia , Laurent Bouchet

The Arecibo Pulsar-ALFA (PALFA) survey of the Galactic plane began in 2004 when the new ALFA (Arecibo L-band Feed Array) receiver was commissioned. It is slated to continue for the next 3-5 years and is expected to discover hundreds of new…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. S. Deneva

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) were first detected thanks to their prompt emission, which was the only information available for decades. In 2010, while the high-energy prompt emission remains the main tool for the detection and the first…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-19 Jean-Luc Atteia , Michel Boër

The race for the most distant object in the Universe has been played by long-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), star-forming galaxies and quasars. GRBs took a temporary lead with the discovery of GRB 090423 at a redshift z=8.2, but now the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-19 S. Campana , G. Ghirlanda , R. Salvaterra , O. A. Gonzalez , M. Landoni , G. Pariani , A. Riva5 , M. Riva , S. J. Smartt , N. R. Tanvir , S. D. Vergani

HERMES Pathfinder is an in-orbit demonstration consisting of a constellation of six 3U cubesats hosting simple but innovative X-ray/gamma-ray detectors for the monitoring of cosmic high-energy transients. HERMES-PF, funded by ASI and by the…

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are a promising probe of the high-redshift Universe, but their detection remains observationally challenging. In this work, we explore the detectability of high-$z$ GRBs by the Wide-field X-ray Telescope (WXT) aboard…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-21 Jun-Jie Wei , Xue-Feng Wu

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are some of the most energetic and exotic events in the Universe, however their behaviour at the highest energies (>10 GeV) is largely unknown. Although the Fermi-LAT space telescope has detected several GRBs in this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 R. D. Parsons , A. Balzer , M. Füssling , C. Hoischen , M. Holler , A. M. W. Mitchell , G. Pühlhofer , G. Rowell , S. Wagner , E. Bissaldi , P. O'Brien , P. H. T. Tam

In the late afternoon of November 25, 2002 a gamma-ray burst (GRB) was detected in the partially coded field of view (about 7.3 deg from the centre) of the imager IBIS on board the INTEGRAL satellite. The instruments on-board INTEGRAL…

In 2018, the Fermi mission celebrated its first decade of operation. In this time, the Large Area Telescope (LAT) has been very successful in detecting the high-energy emission (>100 MeV) from Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs). The analysis of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-16 Elisabetta Bissaldi , Magnus Axelsson , Nicola Omodei , Giacomo Vianello

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are particle acceleration sites that can emit photons in the very high-energy (VHE) domain through non-thermal processes. From 2004 until 2018, the current generation of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-27 Halim Ashkar , Aurélie Sangaré , Stephen Fegan , Jean Damascene Mbarubucyeye , Edna Ruiz-Velasco , Sylvia J. Zhu