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Progenitor stars of long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) could be surrounded by a significant and complex nebula structure lying at a parsec scale distance. After the initial release of energy from the GRB jet, the jet will interact with this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-07 Asaf Pe'er , Felix Ryde

The contemporaneous detection of gravitational waves and gamma rays from the GW170817/GRB 170817A, followed by kilonova emission a day after, confirmed compact binary neutron-star mergers as progenitors of short-duration gamma-ray bursts…

The rate of long-duration gamma ray bursts (GRBs) has been identified as a potential proxy for the star formation rate (SFR) across redshift, but the exact relationship depends on GRB progenitor models (single versus binary). The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-06 Benjamin Metha , Michele Trenti

We present hydrodynamical models of circumstellar medium (CSM) of long gamma-ray burst (GRB) progenitor candidates. These are massive stars that have lost a large amount of mass in the form of stellar wind during their evolution. There are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. J. van Marle , N. Langer , A. Achterberg , G. Garcia-Segura

Although the association of gamma-ray bursts with massive stellar death is on firm footing, the nature of the progenitor system and the key ingredients required for a massive star to produce a gamma-ray burst remain open questions. Here, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-21 Angel Hernandez , Roseanne M. Cheng , Nicole M. Lloyd-Ronning , Carl E. Fields

We recall evidence that long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have binary progenitors and give new examples. Binary-driven hypernovae (BdHNe) consist of a carbon-oxygen core (CO$_{\rm core}$) and a neutron star (NS) companion. For binary periods…

It is now accepted that long duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are produced during the collapse of a massive star. The standard "collapsar" model predicts that a broad-lined and luminous Type Ic core-collapse supernova (SN) accompanies every…

Short-duration gamma-ray bursts (sGRBs) are commonly attributed to the mergers of double neutron stars (NSs) or the mergers of a neutron star with a black hole (BH). While the former scenario was confirmed by the event GW170817, the latter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-25 Yan Li , Rong-Feng Shen , Bin-Bin Zhang

Recent observations suggest that global properties of the host galaxies for long-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are particularly well-suited for creating the massive star progenitors of these GRBs. Motivated by the hypothesis that massive…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hsiao-Wen Chen , J. X. Prochaska , Joshua S. Bloom

Context: GRB 211106A and GRB 211227A are recent gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) with initial X-ray positions suggesting associations with nearby galaxies (z < 0.7). Their prompt emission characteristics indicate GRB 211106A is a short-duration GRB…

Host galaxies are an excellent means of probing the natal environments that generate gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Recent work on the host galaxies of short-duration GRBs has offered new insights into the parent stellar populations and ages of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Emily M. Levesque

Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) are expected to leave behind GRB remnants, similar to how ``standard'' supernovae (SN) leave behind SN remnants. The identification of these remnants in our own and in nearby galaxies would allow a much closer look…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 S. G. Bhargavi , J. Rhoads , R. Perna , J. Feldmeier , J. Greiner

Recently, GRB 170817A was confirmed to be associated with GW 170817, which was produced by a neutron star - neutron star merger. It indicates that at least some short gamma-ray bursts come from binary neutron star mergers. Theoretically, it…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-15 Y. B. Yu , L. B. Li , B. Li , J. J. Geng , Y. F. Huang

The merger locations of binary neutron stars (BNSs) encode their galactic kinematics and provide insights into their connection to short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs). In this work, we use the sample of Galactic BNSs with measured proper motions…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-24 Nicola Gaspari , Andrew J. Levan , Ashley A. Chrimes , Gijs Nelemans

The host galaxies of nearby (z<0.3) core-collapse supernovae and long-duration gamma-ray bursts offer an excellent means of probing the environments and populations that produce these events' varied massive progenitors. These same young…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-02 Emily M. Levesque

We consider gamma--ray bursts produced by the merger of a massive white dwarf with a neutron star. We show that these are likely to produce long--duration GRBs, in some cases definitely without an accompanying supernova, as observed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Andrew King , Emma Olsson , Melvyn B. Davies

The knowledge of the class of short Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs), characterised by a duration of the gamma-ray emission $\leq 2$ s, experienced an impressive boost in the last decade. In particular, the discovery of short GRB afterglows in 2005…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-07 P. D'Avanzo

Due to their extreme luminosities, gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) can be detected in hostile regions of galaxies, nearby and at very high redshift, making them important cosmological probes. The investigation of galaxies hosting long-duration GRBs…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 S. Savaglio

Despite the growing evidence that long Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are associated with deaths of Wolf-Rayet stars, the evolutionary path of massive stars to GRBs and the exact nature of GRB progenitors remained poorly known. However, recent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sung-Chul Yoon , Norbert Langer

Observational follow-up of well localized short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs) has left $20-30\%$ of the population without a coincident host galaxy association to deep optical and NIR limits ($\gtrsim 26$ mag). These SGRBs have been classified…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-03 Brendan O'Connor , Paz Beniamini , Chryssa Kouveliotou