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We present a detailed investigation of Hubble Space Telescope (HST) rest-frame UV/optical observations of 22 short gamma-ray burst (GRB) host galaxies and sub-galactic environments. Utilizing the high angular resolution and depth of HST, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Wen-fai Fong , Edo Berger

We present a binary channel for the progenitors of long gamma-ray bursts. We test the idea of producing rapidly rotating Wolf-Rayet stars in massive close binaries through mass accretion and consecutive quasi-chemically homogeneous…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Cantiello , S. -C. Yoon , N. Langer , M. Livio

Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) are classified as long (LGRBs) and short (SGRBs) with collapsars and compact object mergers (neutron star (NS)-NS or NS-Black hole) as progenitors, respectively. The former are expected to follow the cosmic star…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-11 Sujay Champati , Vahé Petrosian , Maria G. Dainotti

Long Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are produced by ultra-relativistic jets launched from core collapse of massive stars. Most massive stars form in binaries and/or in star clusters, which means that there may be a significant external photon…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-27 Wenbin Lu , Pawan Kumar , George F. Smoot

The detection of the afterglow emission and host galaxies of short-hard gamma-ray bursts (SHBs) is one of the most exciting recent astronomical discoveries. Indications that SHB progenitors belong to old stellar populations, in contrast to…

The multi-messenger detection of GW170817 showed that binary neutron star (BNS) mergers are progenitors of (at least some) short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), and that short GRB jets (and their afterglows) can have structures (and observational…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-04 Avery Eddins , Kyung-hwan Lee , Alessandra Corsi , Imre Bartos , Zsuzsanna Marka , Szabolcs Marka

For over 25 years, the origin of long-duration gamma-ray bursts (lGRBs) has been linked to the collapse of rotating massive stars. However, we have yet to pinpoint the stellar progenitor powering these transients. Moreover, the dominant…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-07 Christopher L. Fryer , Eric Burns , Anna Y. Q. Ho , Alessandra Corsi , Amy Y. Lien , Daniel A. Perley , Jada L. Vail , V. Ashley Villar

Gamma ray bursts have been divided into two classes, long-soft gamma ray burst and short-hard gamma ray burst according to the bimodal distribution in duration time. Due to the harder spectrum and the lack of afterglows of short-hard bursts…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-10-09 Soomin Jeong , Chang-Hwan Lee

There is strong evidence for the existence of black holes(BHs) in some X-ray binaries and most galatic nuclei, based on different measuremental approaches, but black holes aren't finally identified for the lack of very firm observational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 W. Wang , Y. Zhao

We present a comprehensive study to measure the locations of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) relative to their host galaxies. In total, we find the offsets of 20 long-duration GRBs from their apparent host galaxy centers utilizing ground-based…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. S. Bloom , S. R. Kulkarni , S. G. Djorgovski

We consider the spatial offsets of short hard gamma-ray bursts (SHBs) from their host galaxies. We show that all SHBs with extended duration soft emission components lie very close to their hosts. We suggest that NS-BH binary mergers offer…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Eleonora Troja , Andrew R. King , Paul T. O'Brien , Nicola Lyons , Giancarlo Cusumano

We searched for periodic and quasiperiodic signal in the prompt emission of a sample of 44 bright short gamma-ray bursts detected with Fermi/GBM, Swift/BAT, and CGRO/BATSE. The aim was to look for the observational signature of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 S. Dichiara , C. Guidorzi , F. Frontera , L. Amati

The progenitors of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have long been an unresolved issue. GRB 230307A stands out as an exceptionally bright event, belonging to the long-duration GRBs but also exhibiting a late emission component reminiscent of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-01 Junping Chen , Rong-Feng Shen , Wen-Jun Tan , Chen-Wei Wang , Shao-Lin Xiong , Run-Chao Chen , Bin-Bin Zhang

Long gamma-ray bursts involve the most powerful cosmic explosions since the Big Bang. Whilst it has been established that GRBs are related to the death throes of massive stars, the identification of their progenitors has proved challenging.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Jorick S. Vink , G. Graefener , T. J. Harries

Gamma-ray bursts (GRB) are extreme events. They are crudely classified into two groups based on their duration, namely the short and long bursts. Such a classification has proven to be useful to determine their progenitors: the merger of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-17 Hüsne Dereli

The evidences are given for the origin of the GRB progenitors from the ready stellar remnants in result of the dynamical interaction in the dense star clusters. In this way the close binaries of compact objects may form and then merge,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Yuri N. Efremov

Currently popular models for progenitors of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the mergers of compact objects and the explosions of massive stars. These two cases have distinctive environments for GRBs: compact object mergers occur in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Z. G. Dai , T. Lu

We investigate a possible method for determining the progenitors of black hole (BH) mergers observed via their gravitational wave (GW) signal. We argue that measurements of the cross-correlation of the GW events with overlapping galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-27 Alvise Raccanelli , Ely D. Kovetz , Simeon Bird , Ilias Cholis , Julian B. Munoz

Mergers of compact binaries, such as binary neutron stars (BNSs), neutron star-black hole binaries (NSBHs), and binary black holes (BBHs), are expected to be the best candidates for the sources of gravitational waves (GWs) and the leading…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-07 Wei-Wei Tan , Xi-Long Fan , F. Y. Wang

Binary neutron star (BNS) mergers are the leading model to explain the phenomenology of short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs), which are among the most luminous explosions in the universe. Recent observations of long-lasting X-ray afterglows of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-16 Daniel M. Siegel , Riccardo Ciolfi