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The origin and progenitors of short-hard gamma-ray bursts remain a puzzle and a highly debated topic. Recent Swift observations suggest that these GRBs may be related to catastrophic explosions in degenerate compact stars, denoted as "Type…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-01-20 Francisco J. Virgili , Bing Zhang , Paul O'Brien , Eleonora Troja

The detection of supernova features in the late spectra of several gamma-ray burst afterglows has shown that at least a fraction of long-duration gamma-ray bursts are associated to the final evolutionary stages of massive stars. Such direct…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Davide Lazzati

Compact object mergers are one of the currently favored models for the origin of GRBs. The discovery of optical afterglows and identification of the nearest, presumably host, galaxies allows the analysis of the distribution of burst sites…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Tomasz Bulik , Krzysztof Belczynski , Wojciech Zbijewski

The gravitational-wave (GW) events, produced by the coalescence of binary neutron-stars (BNS), can be treated as the standard sirens to probe the expansion history of the Universe, if their redshifts could be determined from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-04 Jiming Yu , Haoran Song , Shunke Ai , He Gao , Fayin Wang , Yu Wang , Youjun Lu , Wenjuan Fang , Wen Zhao

Growing evidence connects the progenitor systems of the short-hard subclass of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) to the merger of compact object binaries composed by two neutron stars (NSs) or by a NS and a black hole (BH). The recent observation of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-17 Riccardo Ciolfi

Black hole neutron star (BHNS) mergers have recently been detected through their gravitational-wave (GW) emission. BHNS mergers could also produce electromagnetic (EM) emission as a short gamma-ray burst (sGRB), and/or an sGRB afterglow…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-20 Oliver M. Boersma , Joeri van Leeuwen

There is increasing evidence of a local population of short duration Gamma-ray Bursts (sGRB), but it remains to be seen whether this is a separate population to higher redshift bursts. Here we choose plausible Luminosity Functions (LF) for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Robert Chapman , Robert S. Priddey , Nial R. Tanvir

Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) and Supernovae (SNe) are among the brightest and most energetic physical processes in the universe. It is known that core-collapse SNe arise from the gravitational collapse and subsequent explosion of massive stars…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-08-02 Zach Cano

Long-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are understood to be the final fate for a subset of massive, stripped envelope, rapidly rotating stars. Beyond this, our knowledge of the progenitor systems is limited. Using the BPASS (Binary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-11-20 A. A. Chrimes , E. R. Stanway , J. J. Eldridge

Binary neutron star (BNS) mergers are one of the proposed origins for both repeating and non-repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs), which associates FRBs with gravitational waves and short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). In this work, we explore…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-18 Haoxiang Lin , Tomonori Totani

With multiple observatories and missions being planned for detecting orphaned afterglows associated with gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) we emphasize the importance of developing data analysis strategies for searching their possible counterpart…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-08-29 Shaon Ghosh , Sukanta Bose

Using the observed rate of short-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) it is possible to make predictions for the detectable rate of compact binary coalescences in gravitational-wave detectors. These estimates rely crucially on the growing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Hsin-Yu Chen , Daniel E. Holz

The collapsar model, the now leading model for the engine behind gamma-ray bursts and hypernovae, requires that a star collapses to form a black hole surrounded by an accretion disk of high-angular momentum material. The current best…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Chris L. Fryer , Alexander Heger

Short GRBs are commonly thought to originate from the merging of double compact object binaries but direct evidence for this scenario is still missing. Optical observations of short GRBs allow us to measure redshifts, firmly identify host…

A binary neutron star (BNS) merger has been widely argued to be one of the progenitors of a short gamma-ray burst (SGRB). This central engine can be verified if its gravitational-wave (GW) event is detected simultaneously. Once confirmed,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-03 Di Xiao , Liang-Duan Liu , Zi-Gao Dai , Xue-Feng Wu

On the ground of the large number of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) detected with cosmological redshift, we classified GRBs in seven subclasses, all with binary progenitors originating gravitational waves (GWs). Each binary is composed by…

We present a study aimed at quantifying the detectability of radio counterparts of binary neutron star (BNS) mergers with total masses $\lesssim 3$\,M$_{\odot}$, which may form neutron star (NS) remnants. We focus on mergers localized by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-01 Kara Merfeld , Alessandra Corsi

The detection of GW170817, it's extensive multi-wavelength follow-up campaign, and the large amount of theoretical development and interpretation that followed, have resulted in a significant step forward in the understanding of the binary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-20 Davide Lazzati

The association of long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) with Type Ib/c supernovae implies that they explode into the winds of their Wolf-Rayet progenitor stars. Although the evolution of some GRB afterglows is consistent with expansion into a free…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-06-05 Roger A. Chevalier

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are generally believed to originate from two distinct progenitors, compact binary mergers and massive collapsars. Traditional and some recent machine learning-based classification schemes predominantly rely on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-22 Si-Yuan Zhu , Lang Shao , Pak-Hin Thomas Tam , Fu-Wen Zhang