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There is now compelling evidence of a link between long-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and Type Ib/c supernovae (SNe). These core-collapse explosions are conjectured to radiate an anisotropic, beamed component associated with a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz , Piero Madau

$\gamma$-ray bursts (GRBs) have puzzled astronomers since their accidental discovery in the sixties. The BATSE detector on COMPTON-GRO satellite has been detecting GRBs for the last four years at a rate of one burst per day. Its findings…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tsvi Piran

We find that dim gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are softer than bright GRBs, as indicated on average by data from the Burst and Transient Source Experiment (BATSE) on board the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory. We show that this correlation is…

Gravitational lensing is a powerful tool for constraining substructure in the mass distribution of galaxies, be it from the presence of dark matter sub-halos or due to physical mechanisms affecting the baryons throughout galaxy evolution.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-28 Georgios Vernardos , Grigorios Tsagkatakis , Yannis Pantazis

Background subtraction is a fundamental pre-processing task in computer vision. This task becomes challenging in real scenarios due to variations in the background for both static and moving camera sequences. Several deep learning methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Jhony H. Giraldo , Thierry Bouwmans

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

The next generation of observatories will facilitate the discovery of new types of astrophysical transients. The detection of such phenomena, whose characteristics are presently poorly constrained, will hinge on the ability to perform blind…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-15 Iftach Sadeh

We present the first physically motivated background model for the Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor (GBM) onboard the Fermi satellite. Such a physically motivated background model has the potential to significantly improve the scientific output of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-05 Björn Biltzinger , Felix Kunzweiler , Jochen Greiner , Kilian Toelge , J. Michael Burgess

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

In some models of quantum gravity, space-time is thought to have a foamy structure with non-trivial optical properties. We probe the possibility that photons propagating in vacuum may exhibit a non-trivial refractive index, by analyzing the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Ellis , N. E. Mavromatos , D. V. Nanopoulos , A. S. Sakharov

Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRB) are the most energetic events in the Universe, and provide a complementary probe of dark energy by allowing the measurement of cosmic expansion history that extends to redshifts greater than 6. Unlike Type Ia…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-09 Yun Wang

Extracting the faint gravitational-wave background (GWB) signal from dominant detector noise and disentangling its %diverse astrophysical and cosmological components remain significant challenges for traditional methods like…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-18 Hugo Einsle , Marie-Anne Bizouard , Tania Regimbau , Mairi Sakellariadou

Recently, graph-based models designed for downstream tasks have significantly advanced research on graph neural networks (GNNs). GNN baselines based on neural message-passing mechanisms such as GCN and GAT perform worse as the network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Jiayuan Chen , Xiang Zhang , Yinfei Xu , Tianli Zhao , Renjie Xie , Wei Xu

High-redshift Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) beyond redshift $\sim6$ are potentially powerful tools to probe the distant early Universe. Their detections in large numbers and at truly high redshifts call for the next generation of high-energy…

Methods for source detection in high noise environments are important for single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) medical imaging and especially crucial for homeland security applications, which is our main interest. In the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-10-28 Weston Baines , Peter Kuchment , Jean Ragusa

We use numerical simulations of large scale structure formation to explore the cosmological properties of Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) host galaxies. Among the different sub-populations found in the simulations, we identify the host galaxies as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Stephanie Courty , Gunnlaugur Bjornsson , Einar H. Gudmundsson

The wide fields of view, high sensitivity, and broad energy coverage of current X-ray and gamma-ray satellites, coupled with the high cadence observational strategy of some of them (recently Swift and Fermi) have been ideal for carrying out…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-25 Maria D. Caballero-Garcia

The detection of fast radio bursts (FRBs) in radio astronomy is a complex task due to the challenges posed by radio frequency interference (RFI) and signal dispersion in the interstellar medium. Traditional search algorithms are often…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-07 Yong-Kun Zhang , Di Li , Yi Feng , Chao-Wei Tsai , Pei Wang , Chen-Hui Niu , Hua-Xi Chen , Yu-Hao Zhu

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most energetic phenomena in the Universe; believed to result from the collapse and subsequent explosion of massive stars. Even though it has profound consequences for our understanding of their nature and…

While traditional methods relies on depth sensors, the current trend leans towards utilizing cost-effective RGB images, despite their absence of depth cues. This paper introduces an interesting approach to detect grasping pose from a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Zhaocong Li