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Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have been regarded as standard candles at very high redshift for cosmology research. We have proposed a new method to calibrate GRB distance indicators with Type Ia supernova (SNe Ia) data in a completely…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-22 Nan Liang , Puxun Wu , Shuang Nan Zhang

Three different methods of measuring cosmology with gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have been proposed since a relation between the $\gamma$-ray energy $E_{\gamma} $ of a GRB jet and the peak energy $E_p$ of the $\nu F_{\nu}$ spectrum in the burst…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Xu , Z. G. Dai , E. W. Liang

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are widely proposed as an effective probe to trace the Hubble diagram of the Universe in high redshift range. However, the calibration of GRBs is not as easy as that of type-Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). Most calibrating…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-21 Hai-Nan Lin , Xin Li , Sai Wang , Zhe Chang

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

An important concern in the application of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) to cosmology is that the calibration of GRB luminosity/energy relations depends on the cosmological model, due to the lack of a sufficient low-redshift GRB sample. In this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Nan Liang , Wei Ke Xiao , Yuan Liu , Shuang Nan Zhang

The correlations involving the long-GRB prompt emission energy represent a new key to understand the GRB physics. These correlations have been proved to be the tool which makes long-GRBs a new class of standard candles. Gamma Ray Bursts,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Ghirlanda

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 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 investigate the well-measured spectral and energetic properties of 20 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) in their cosmological rest frames. We find a tight relation between the isotropic-equivalent gamma-ray energy Eiso, the local peak energy E'p…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Xu

As one of the most energetic and brightest events, gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have been used as a standard candle for cosmological probe. Based on the relevant features of GRBs light curves, a plateau phase followed a decay phase, we obtain…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-18 Jia-Lun Li , Yu-Peng Yang , Shuang-Xi Yi , Jian-Ping Hu , Yan-Kun Qu , Fa-Yin Wang

We extend the Hubble diagram up to $z = 5.6$ using 63 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) via peak energy-peak luminosity relation (so called Yonetoku relation), and obtain constraints on cosmological parameters including dynamical dark energy…

The current knowledge in cosmology deals with open problems whose solutions are still under investigation. The main issue is the so-called Hubble constant ($H_0$) tension, namely, the $4-6 \sigma$ discrepancy between the local value of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-23 Maria Giovanna Dainotti , Biagio De Simone , Aditya Narendra , Agnieszka Pollo

An $E_{\gamma,{\rm jet}}\propto {E'_p}^{1.5}$ relationship with a small scatter for current $\gamma$-ray burst (GRB) data was recently reported, where $E_{\gamma,{\rm jet}}$ is the beaming-corrected $\gamma$-ray energy and $E'_p$ is the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Z. G. Dai , E. W. Liang , D. Xu

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

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

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 cosmological explosions which carry valuable information from the distant past of the expanding universe. One of the greatest discoveries in modern cosmology is the finding of the accelerated expansion of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-15 Rupal Basak , A. R. Rao

The mechanism responsible for the prompt emission of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is still a debated issue. The prompt phase-related GRB correlations can allow to discriminate among the most plausible theoretical models explaining this emission.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-01 Maria Dainotti , Roberta Del Vecchio , Mariusz Tarnopolski

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), as a possible probe to extend the Hubble diagram to high redshifts, have attracted much attention recently. In this paper, we select two samples of GRBs that have a plateau phase in X-ray afterglow. One is short…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-11 J. P. Hu , F. Y. Wang , Z. G. Dai