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We use the BD2 sample of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) based on 5.9 years of BATSE DISCLA data with a variety of models of the luminosity function to derive characteristic GRB luminosities, space densities and redshift distributions. Previously…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Maarten Schmidt

In the redshift range z = 0-1, the gamma ray burst (GRB) redshift distribution should increase rapidly because of increasing differential volume sizes and strong evolution in the star formation rate. This feature is not observed in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-05-24 D. M. Coward , D. Guetta , R. R. Burman , A. Imerito

Instrumental selection effects can act upon the estimates of the peak energy Ep, the fluence F and the peak flux P of GRBs. If this were the case, then the correlations involving the corresponding rest frame quantities (i.e. Ep, Eiso and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-06-25 Lara Nava , Giancarlo Ghirlanda , Gabriele Ghisellini

Powerful current and future cosmological constraints using high precision measurements of the large-scale structure of galaxies and its weak gravitational lensing effects rely on accurate characterization of the redshift distributions of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-05 Carles Sánchez , Gary M. Bernstein

This work uses hierarchical logistic Gaussian processes to infer true redshift distributions of samples of galaxies, through their cross-correlations with spatially overlapping spectroscopic samples. We demonstrate that this method can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-30 Markus Michael Rau , Simon Wilson , Rachel Mandelbaum

Gamma Ray Bursts (GRB) are among the brightest objects in the Universe and hence can be observed up to a very high redshift. Properly calibrated empirical correlations between intensity and spectral correlations of GRBs can be used to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-22 Meghendra Singh , Darshan Singh , Kanhaiya Lal Pandey , Dinkar Verma , Shashikant Gupta

We study the redshift evolution of the luminosity function (LF) and redshift selection effect of long gamma-ray bursts (LGRBs). The method is to fit the observed peak flux and redshift distributions, simultaneously. To account for the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-14 W. W. Tan , F. Y. Wang

Using the BATSE peak flux distribution we rederive the short GRBs luminosity function and compare it with the observed redshift distribution of long bursts. We show that both distributions are compatible with the assumption that short as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Dafne Guetta , Tsvi Piran

Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are known to be unpredictable in time and position. A few (observationally) exceptional events have been observed, as GRB221009A that stands out for its fluence and peak flux, being orders of magnitude higher than…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-10 Stefano Covino

We show that the time variability of a gamma-ray burst (GRB) appears to be correlated with the absolute luminosity of the burst: smooth bursts are intrinsically less luminous. This Cepheid-like relationship can be used to determine the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. E. Fenimore , E. Ramirez-Ruiz

Context: Gamma Ray Burst models predict the broadband spectral evolution and the temporal evolution of the energy flux. In contrast, standard data analysis tools and data repositories provide count-rate data, or use single flux conversion…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 P. A. Evans , R. Willingale , J. P. Osborne , P. T. O'Brien , K. L. Page , C. B. Markwardt , S. D. Barthelmy , A. P. Beardmore , D. N. Burrows , C. Pagani , R. L. C. Starling , P. Romano

Statistical methods are frequently built upon assumptions that limit their applicability to certain problems and conditions. Failure to recognize these limitations can lead to conclusions that may be inaccurate or biased. An example of such…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-28 Christopher Bryant , Joshua Alexander Osborne , Amir Shahmoradi

Suppose an astronomer is equipped with a device capable of detecting emissions -- whether they be electromagnetic, gravitational, or neutrino -- from transient sources distributed throughout the cosmos. Because of source rate density…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 D. M. Coward , R. R. Burman

We estimate the luminosity evolution and formation rate for over 900 GRBs by using redshift and luminosity data calculated by Band, Norris, $&$ Bonnell (2004) via the lag-luminosity correlation. By applying maximum likelihood techniques, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Daniel Kocevski , Edison Liang

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are intense, short-lived bursts of gamma-ray radiation observed up to a high redshift ($z \sim 10$) due to their luminosities. Thus, they can serve as cosmological tools to probe the early Universe. However, we need…

We use the possible Cepheid-like luminosity estimator for the long-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) developed by Reichart et al. (2000) to estimate the intrinsic luminosity, and thus the redshift, of 907 long-duration GRBs from the BATSE 4B…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Timothy Donaghy , Donald Q. Lamb , Daniel E. Reichart , Carlo Graziani

We present a detailed analysis of the selection effects that plague GRB observations. We find that these effects may partially explain the different redshift distributions between BeppoSax/HETE2 and Swift bursts. It is mandatory to consider…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 F. Fiore , D. Guetta , S. Piranomonte , V. D'Elia , L. A. Antonelli

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are among the most luminous explosions in the Universe and serve as powerful probes of the early cosmos. However, the rapid fading of their afterglows and the scarcity of spectroscopic measurements make photometric…

We employ realistic constraints on selection effects to model the Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) redshift distribution using {\it Swift} triggered redshift samples acquired from optical afterglows and the TOUGH survey. Models for the Malmquist bias,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-16 David Coward , Eric Howell , Marica Branchesi , Bruce Gendre , Giulia Stratta