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Gamma Ray Bursts are among the most powerful astrophysical sources and they release up to 1.e54 erg, if isotropic, in less than few hundred seconds. Their detection in the hard X/gamma ray band (at energies >10 keV) and out to very high…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 G. Ghirlanda , G. Ghisellini

Recently, a tight correlation among three quantities that characterize the prompt emission of long Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) with known redshift z, was discovered (Firmani et al. 2006). We use this correlation to construct the Hubble diagram…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 C. Firmani , V. Avila-Reese , G. Ghisellini , G. Ghirlanda

Following our previous work, we conclude that a GRB standard candle constructed from the Ghirlanda et al. power-law relation between the geometry-corrected energy (E_gamma) and the peak of the rest-frame prompt burst spectrum (E_p) is not…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 Andrew S. Friedman , Joshua S. Bloom

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are among the most luminous electromagnetic transients in the universe, providing unique insights into extreme astrophysical processes and serving as promising probes for cosmology. Unlike Type Ia supernovae, which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-28 Chen Deng , Yong-Feng Huang , Fan Xu , Abdusattar Kurban

Due to the lack of low redshift long Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs), the circular problem has been a severe obstacle for using GRBs as cosmological candles. In this paper, we present a new method to deal with such a problem in MCMC global fitting…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 Hong Li , Jun-Qing Xia , Jie Liu , Gong-Bo Zhao , Zu-Hui Fan , Xinmin Zhang

We propose a new method to use gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) as an alternative probe of the dark energy. By calibrating luminosity-variability and luminosity-lag time relations at low redshift where distance-redshift relations have been already…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Takahashi , M. Oguri , K. Kotake , H. Ohno

As soon as it was realized that long GRBs lie at cosmological distances, attempts have been made to use them as cosmological probes. Besides their use as lighthouses, a task that presents mainly the technological challenge of a rapid deep…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 D. Lazzati , G. Ghirlanda , G. Ghisellini , L. Nava , C. Firmani , Brian Morsony , M. C. Begelman

We use Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) data from Y. Wang (2008) to put additional constraints on a set of cosmological dark energy models based on the holographic principle. GRBs are among the most complex and energetic astrophysical events known…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-12 Alexander Bonilla Rivera , Jairo Ernesto Castillo Hernandez

A new method of measuring cosmology with gamma-ray bursts(GRBs) has been proposed by Liang and Zhang recently. In this method, only observable quantities including the rest frame peak energy of the \nu F_\nu spectrum (E'_p), the isotropic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. Y. Wang , Z. G. Dai

Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRB) are the most energetic events in the Universe, and provide a complementary probe of dark energy by allowing the measurement of cosmic expansion history that extends to redshifts greater than 6. Unlike Type Ia…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-09 Yun Wang

Gamma-ray bursts are the most energetic explosions in the Universe. They are detectable up to very high redshifts, therefore can be used to study the expansion rate of the Universe and to investigate the observational properties of dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-15 Marek Demianski , Ester Piedipalumbo , Disha Sawant , Lorenzo Amati

We combine recent long Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) sample including 52 objects out to z$=$6.3 compiled from Swift Gamma Ray Bursts by Schaefer (2006) with Type Ia Supernova (SNIa), Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and Baryon Oscillation (BAO)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Meng Su , Hong Li , Zuhui Fan , Bo Liu

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are among the most powerful sources in the universe. In the recent years, GRBs have been proposed as a complementary probe to type Ia supernovae (SNIa). However, as is well known, there is a circularity problem in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-10 Jing Liu , Hao Wei

Several interesting correlations among Gamma Ray Bursts (GRB) prompt and afterglow properties have been found in the recent years. Some of these correlations have been proposed also to standardize GRB energetics to use them as standard…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-03 G. Ghirlanda

It has been widely shown that the cosmological parameters and dark energy can be constrained by using data from type-Ia supernovae (SNe Ia), the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy, the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) peak from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 F. Y. Wang , Z. G. Dai , Zong-Hong Zhu

We discuss the prospects of using Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) as high-redshift distance estimators, and consider their use in the study of two dark energy models, the Generalized Chaplygin Gas (GCG), a model for the unification of dark energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 O. Bertolami , P. T. Silva

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are attractive objects for constraining the nature of dark energy in a way complementary to other cosmological probes, especially at high redshifts. However, the apparent magnitude of distant GRBs can be distorted by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 F. Y. Wang , Z. G. Dai

It is usual, in gamma-ray burst (GRB) studies, to compare the average properties of bright and faint GRBs, with the assumption that brightness classes reflect distance classes. When brightness is intented to reflect the distance to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 J-L. Atteia

As so far, the redshift of Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) can extend to $z\sim 8$ which makes it as a complementary probe of dark energy to supernova Ia (SN Ia). However, the calibration of GRBs is still a big challenge when they are used to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Lixin Xu

Testing the $\Lambda$CDM model requires cosmological probes spanning the wide redshift interval between Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia, $z\lesssim2.9$) and the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB, $z\approx1100$). Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs), observed…