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We present the results of our study of the variability time scales of a sample of 27 long Swift Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) with known redshifts. The variability time scale can help our understanding of fundamental GRB parameters such as the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-06-18 T. N. Ukwatta , K. S. Dhuga , W. C. Parke , T. Sakamoto , C. B. Markwardt , S. D. Barthelmy , D. F. Cioffi , A. Eskandarian , N. Gehrels , L. Maximon , D. C. Morris

Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs), short and intense pulses of low energy gamma-rays, have fascinated astronomers and astrophysicists since their unexpected discovery in the late sixties. During the last decade, several space missions: BATSE (Burst…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Tsvi Piran

(Shortened) We show by example how the uncoding of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) offers unprecedented possibilities to foster new knowledge in fundamental physics and in astrophysics. After recalling some of the classic work on vacuum…

Cosmological GRBs are discussed with an emphasis on their plausible connection with black holes. GRBs can be triggered by collapse of stellar-mass objects that leads to formation of a black hole and a transient debris disk with a huge…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Andrei M. Beloborodov

We discuss possible tests of the constancy of the velocity of light using distant astrophysical sources such as gamma-ray bursters (GRBs), Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) and pulsars. This speculative quest may be motivated by some models of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Ellis , K. Farakos , N. E. Mavromatos , V. Mitsou , D. V. Nanopoulos

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

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most electromagnetically luminous cosmic explosions. They are powered by collimated streams of plasma (jets) ejected by a newborn stellar-mass black hole or neutron star at relativistic velocities (near the…

Evolution of the rate density of cosmological gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is calculated and compared to the BATSE brightness distribution in the context of binary neutron-star mergers as the source of GRBs, taking account of the realistic star…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 Tomonori Totani

Gamma ray bursts (GRB) occur at random points in the sky at cosmological distances. The spectra evolve through X-ray, optical region to possibly radio frequency. Though there are some models, the origin and time evolution of GRB are not…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Manoj Thulasidas

Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) are among the most powerful sources in the Universe: they emit up to 10^54 erg in the hard X-ray band in few tens of seconds. The cosmological origin of GRBs has been confirmed by several spectroscopic measurements…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-19 G. Ghirlanda , G. Ghisellini , C. Firmani

The Burst and Transient Source Experiment (BATSE) classifies cosmological gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) into short (less than 2 s) and long (over 2 s) events, commonly attributed to mergers of compact objects and, respectively, peculiar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Maurice H. P. M. van Putten , Gyeong Min Lee , Massimo Della Valle , Lorenzo Amati , Amir Levinson

We have carried out a detailed study of the morphology of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) with time duration less than 100 ms that includes: (1) a fast-Fourier spectrum analysis, (2) a comparison with the Stern analysis of longer bursts, (3) an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 David B. Cline , Christina Matthey , Stanislaw Otwinowski

Prompt {\gamma}-ray emissions from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) exhibit a vast range of extremely complex temporal structures with a typical variability time-scale significantly short - as fast as milliseconds. This work aims to investigate the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-09-28 G. Greco , R. Rosa , G. Beskin , S. Karpov , L. Romano , A. Guarnieri , C. Bartolini , R. Bedogni

Suppose an astronomer is equipped with a device capable of detecting emissions -- whether they be electromagnetic, gravitational, or neutrino -- from transient sources distributed throughout the cosmos. Because of source rate density…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 D. M. Coward , R. R. Burman

Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are extra-galactic and extremely energetic transient emissions of gamma rays, which are thought to be associated with the death of massive stars or the merger of compact objects in binary systems. Their huge…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-20 F. Piron

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are spectacularly energetic events, with the potential to inform on the early universe and its evolution, once their redshifts are known. Unfortunately, determining redshifts is a painstaking procedure requiring…

The physics of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and their offsets from the centers of their host galaxies are used to investigate the evolutionary state of their progenitors, motivated by the popular idea that GRBs are linked with the cataclysmic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz , Davide Lazzati , Andrew W. Blain

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

An extreme Kerr black hole (BH) surrounded by a precessing disk is invoked to explain the light curves of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) based on the coexistence of the Blandford-Znajek (BZ) and the magnetic coupling (MC) processes. The overall…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-16 W. H. Lei , D. X. Wang , B. P. Gong , C. Y. Huang

Apparently, Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are all but standard candles. Their emission is collimated into a cone and the received flux depends on the cone aperture angle. Fortunately we can derive the aperture angle through an achromatic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 G. Ghisellini , G. Ghirlanda , C. Firmani , D. Lazzati , V. Avila-Reese , .