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The prompt emission of gamma-ray bursts has yet defied any simple explanation, despite the presence of a rich observational material and great theoretical efforts. Here we show that all the types of spectral evolution and spectral shapes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Felix Ryde

Recently proposed correlations between the energetics of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRB) and their spectral properties, namely the peak energy of their prompt emission, are found to account for the observed fluence distribution of all `bright' BATSE…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Z. Bosnjak , A. Celotti , F. Longo , G. Barbiellini

The origin of the gamma-ray burst (GRB) prompt emission still defies explanation, in spite of recent progress made, for example, on the occasional presence of a thermal component in the spectrum along with the ubiquitous non-thermal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-23 S. Dichiara , C. Guidorzi , L. Amati , F. Frontera , R. Margutti

Gamma ray burst (GRB) time series is a non-stationary time series with all its statistical properties varying with time. Considering that each GRB is a different manifestation of the same stochastic process we studied the time dependent as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Nilay Bhatt , Subir Bhattacharyya

The observed delay in the arrival times between high and low energy photons in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) has been shown by Norris et al. to be correlated to the absolute luminosity of a GRB. Despite the apparent importance of this spectral…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Kocevski , E. P. Liang

We investigate the cosmological evolution of GRBs, using the total gamma ray fluence as a measure of the burst strength. This involves an understanding of the distributions of the spectral parameters of GRBs as well as the total fluence…

Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-06 Nicole M. Lloyd-Ronning , Vahe' Petrosian

We report the discovery of a correlation among three prompt emission properties of GRBs. These are the isotropic peak luminosity L_iso, the peak energy of the time-integrated prompt emission spectrum E_pk, and the ``high signal" timescale…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 C. Firmani , G. Ghisellini , V. Avila-Reese , G. Ghirlanda

The properties of the spectral evolution during the prompt emission phase of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), which are closely related to the radiation mechanism (synchrotron or photosphere), are still a subject of debate. Two spectral evolution…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-21 Liang Li

The prompt emission of Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) is still an outstanding question in the study of these cataclysmic events. Part of what makes GRBs difficult to study is how unique each event seems to be. However, aggregating many GRB…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-31 Tyler Parsotan , Hirotaka Ito

Most cosmological models for gamma-ray bursts invoke the production of a ``fireball'' in a compact region, as indicated by the short time variability of the observed GRBs. The high density of $e^+e^-$ pairs in such fireballs inevitably…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Nir J. Shaviv

This paper presents a study on the spectral evolution of gamma-ray burst (GRB) prompt emissions observed with the Suzaku Wide-band All-sky Monitor (WAM). By making use of the WAM data archive, 6 bright GRBs exhibiting 7 well-separated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Makoto S. Tashiro , Kaori Onda , Kazutaka Yamaoka , Masahiro Ohno , Satoshi Sugita , Takeshi Uehara , Hiromi Seta

The prompt emission of gamma-ray bursts remains mysterious since the mechanism is difficult to understand even though there are much more observations with the development of detection technology. But most of the gamma-ray bursts spectra…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-26 Ming-Ya Duan , Xiang-Gao Wang

Cosmological $\gamma$-ray bursts originate from relativistic winds. Temporal fluctuations in the wind velocity can give rise to internal shocks which dissipate a significant fraction of the wind kinetic energy. Part of the energy dissipated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ravi P. Pilla , Abraham Loeb

Systematic variations of average observational characteristics and correlation properties between different parameters of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) with time from 1991 April to 1994 September are revealed. It is hard to explain the observed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 Ti-Pei Li

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are highly variable and exhibit strong spectral evolution. In particular, the emission properties vary from pulse to pulse in multipulse bursts. Here we present a time-resolved Bayesian spectral analysis of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-20 Liang Li , Felix Ryde , Asaf Pe'er , Hoi-Fung Yu , Zeynep Acuner

Previous studies of the evolution of gamma-ray burst spectra have generally relied on fitting sequences of spectra. These studies usually were confined to bright bursts and often lacked sufficient temporal resolution. We have developed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 David Band , Lyle Ford

Simple hardness ratios are found to be a good estimator for the spectral peak energy in Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs). Specifically, a high correlation strength is found between the $\nu F_{\nu}$ peak in the spectrum of BATSE GRBs, $\epo$, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-05 Amir Shahmoradi , Robert J. Nemiroff

We study the spectral evolution of 13 short duration Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) detected by the Gamma Burst Monitor (GBM) on board Fermi. We study spectra resolved in time at the level of 2-512 ms in the 8 keV-35 MeV energy range. We find a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 G. Ghirlanda , G. Ghisellini , L. Nava , D. Burlon

Despite the great variation in the light curves of Gamma Ray Burst (GRB) prompt emission, their spectral energy distribution is generally curved and broadly peaked. In particular, their spectral evolution is well described by the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 F. Massaro , J. E. Grindlay

Although the time profiles of gamma ray bursts (GRBs) show extremely diverse behavior, their average statistical properties such as the average peak-aligned profile and the auto-correlation function show simple stretched-exponential…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Boris E. Stern , Roland Svensson