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Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are intense, short-lived bursts of gamma-ray radiation observed up to a high redshift ($z \sim 10$) due to their luminosities. Thus, they can serve as cosmological tools to probe the early Universe. However, we need…

We present the Space-based multi-band astronomical Variable Object Monitor (SVOM), a future satellite mission for Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) studies, developed in cooperation between the Chinese National Space Agency (CNSA), the Chinese Academy…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-31 S. Schanne , J. Paul , J. Wei , S. -N. Zhang , S. Basa , J. -L. Atteia , D. Barret , A. Claret , B. Cordier , F. Daigne , P. Evans , G. Fraser , O. Godet , D. Götz , P. Mandrou , J. Osborne

We review recent results on the high-redshift universe and the cosmic evolution obtained using Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) as tracers of high-redshift galaxies. Most of the results come from photometric and spectroscopic observations of GRB…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 P. Petitjean , S. D. Vergani

$\gamma$-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

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are short and intense flashes at the cosmological distances, which are the most luminous explosions in the Universe. The high luminosities of GRBs make them detectable out to the edge of the visible universe. So,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-17 Patrick Petitjean , F. Y. Wang , X. F. Wu , J. J. Wei

Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) are unpredictable and brief flashes of gamma rays that occur about once a day in random locations in the sky. Since gamma rays do not penetrate the Earth's atmosphere, they are detected by satellites, which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 A. Gomboc

Long Gamma Ray Bursts (LGRBs) can be used to address key questions on the formation of the modern universe including: How does the star formation rate evolve at high redshift? When and how did the intergalactic medium become re-ionized?…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-04 Nicholas E. White

The Infra-Red Telescope (IRT) is part of the payload of the THESEUS mission, which is one of the two ESA M5 candidates within the Cosmic Vision program, planned for launch in 2032. The THESEUS payload, composed by two high energy wide field…

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the ultimate cosmic lighthouses, capable of illuminating the universe at its earliest epochs. Could such events probe the properties of the first stars at z $\sim$ 20, the end of the cosmic Dark Ages? Previous…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-16 R. A. Mesler , Daniel J. Whalen , Joseph Smidt , Chris L. Fryer , N. M. Lloyd-Ronning , Y. M. Pihlström

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

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

The redshift where the first stars formed is an important and unknown milestone in cosmological structure formation. The evidence linking gamma ray bursts (GRBs) with star formation activity implies that the first GRBs occurred shortly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 James E. Rhoads

Gamma-ray bursts (GRB) sign energetic explosions in the Universe, occurring at cosmological distances. Multi-wavelength observations of GRB allow to study their properties and to use them as cosmological tools. In 2012 the space borne…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-11-26 S. Schanne , B. Cordier , D. Gotz , A. Gros , P. Kestener , H. Le Provost , B. L'Huillier , M. Mur

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are most intense transient gamma-ray events in the sky when they are on together with the strong evidences (i.e. the isotropic and inhomogeneous distribution of GRBs detected by BASTE) that they are located at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-01 K. S. Cheng , T. Lu

Studies of the cosmic gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and their host galaxies are starting to provide interesting or even unique new insights in observational cosmology. GRBs represent a new way of identifying a population of star-forming galaxies…

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have long been considered as candidates of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs). We investigate the signatures of CR proton acceleration in the GRBs by consistently taking into account their hadronic and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-06-25 Soebur Razzaque , Charles D. Dermer , Justin D. Finke , Armen Atoyan

Preliminary results of a project aiming at unveiling the nature of the extremely red galaxies (ERGs) (objects with colours R-K>6 and I-K>5) found in deep optical-NIR surveys are presented. Very little is known about these objects, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Paola Andreani , Andrea Cimatti , Huub Roettgering , Remo Tilanus

We discuss how gamma-ray burst (GRB) optical afterglows and multiwavelength observations of their host galaxies can be used to obtain information about the relative amounts of star formation happening in optical and submillimetre galaxies.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Neil Trentham , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz , A. W. Blain

After presenting a short history of gamma-ray burst (GRB) studies, we discuss the current constraints on GRB models which follows from astronomical observations. We concentrate on the energetics of the GRBs with known redshifts and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. A. Postnov

We present the SVOM (Space-based multi-band astronomical Variable Object Monitor) mission, that is being developed in cooperation between the Chinese National Space Agency (CNSA), the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) and the French Space…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 D. Gotz , J. Paul , S. Basa , J. Wei , S. N. Zhang , J. -L. Atteia , D. Barret , B. Cordier , A. Claret , J. Deng , X. Fan , J. Y. Hu , M. Huang , P. Mandrou , S. Mereghetti , Y. Qiu , B. Wu