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Based on a simulation of galaxy formation in the standard cosmological model, we suggest that a consistent picture for Gamma-Ray Bursts and star formation may be found that is in broad agreement with observations: GRBs preferentially form…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-10-25 Renyue Cen , Taotao Fang

Luminosity of GRB 170817A is much lower than that of other sGRBs. The measurement of the superluminal movement of the radio afterglow emission confirms the presence of the relativistic jet, and the emission features can be well explained by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-05 Qi Guo , Daming Wei , Yuanzhu Wang

Long gamma-ray bursts (LGRBs) are typically thought to result from the collapse of massive stars. Nonetheless, recent observations of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) 211211A and 230307A, coupled with the low-redshift excess of LGRB event rates…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-12 Yan-Kun Qu , Zhong-Xiao Man , Zhi-Bin Zhang

Apparent redshift dependence of the jet opening angles ($\theta_{\rm j}$) of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is observed from current GRB sample. We investigate whether this dependence can be explained with instrumental selection effects and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-01-18 Rui-Jing Lu , Jun-Jie Wei , Shu-Fu Qin , En-Wei Liang

While the high-z frontier of star formation rate (SFR) studies has advanced rapidly, direct measurements beyond z ~ 4 remain difficult, as shown by significant disagreements among different results. Gamma-ray bursts, owing to their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Hasan Yuksel , Matthew D. Kistler , John F. Beacom , Andrew M. Hopkins

We propose a method to estimate the pseudo jet opening half-angle of GRBs using the spectral peak energy ($\Ep$)--peak luminosity relation (so called Yonetoku relation) as well as the $\Ep$--collimation-corrected $\gamma$-ray energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Daisuke Yonetoku , Ryo Yamazaki , Takashi Nakamura , Toshio Murakami

Gamma-Ray Bursts are the most luminous events in the Universe, and are excellent laboratories to study extreme physical phenomena in the cosmos. Despite a long trajectory of progress in understanding these highly energetic events, there are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-15 Valeria U. Hurtado , Nicole M. Lloyd-Ronning , Jonah M. Miller

The astrophysics of Long GRB (LGRB) progenitors as well as possible cosmological evolution in their properties still poses many open questions. Previous studies suggest that the LGRB rate density (LGRB-RD) follows the cosmic star formation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-13 Nikita S. Khatiya , Maria Giovanna Dainotti , Aditya Narendra , Dhruv S. Bal , Aleksander Ł. Lenart , Dieter H. Hartmann

Most of proposed models of cosmological gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are associated to gravitational collapses of massive stars, and hence evolution of the GRB rate, which is crucially important in GRB intensity distribution analysis, is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tomonori TOTANI

Luminosity function and event rate of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are easily biased by the instrument and selection effects. We select 115 Fermi/GBM GRBs with good spectra fitted by a smoothly broken power-law function. The $\tau$-statistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-23 Yang Liu , Zhi-Bin Zhang , Xiao-Fei Dong , Long-Biao Li , Xiu-Yun Du

The Lorentz factor of a relativistic jet and its evolution during the jet expansion are difficult to estimate, especially for the jets in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). However, it is related to the understanding of jet physics. Owing to the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-09 Da-Bin Lin , Rui-Jing Lu , Shen-Shi Du , Tong Liu , Xiang-Gao Wang , En-Wei Liang

In this paper, we study the luminosity function and formation rate of short gamma-ray bursts (sGRBs). Firstly, we derive the $E_p-L_p$ correlation using 16 sGRBs with redshift measurements and determine the pseudo redshifts of 284 Fermi…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-10 G. Q. Zhang , F. Y. Wang

The jet opening angle of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is an important parameter for determining the characteristics of the progenitor, and the information contained in the opening angle gives insight into the relativistic outflow and the total…

Gamma-ray bursts observed in high-energies allow the investigation of the emission processes of these still puzzling events. In this study, we perform general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations to investigate GRB 090510, a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-13 Joseph Saji , Maria Giovanna Dainotti , Shubham Bhardwaj , Agnieszka Janiuk

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

We invert directly the redshift - luminosity distribution of observed long Swift GRBs to obtain their rate and luminosity function. Our best fit rate is described by a broken power law that rises like (1+z)^2.1{+0.5-0.6} for 0<z<3 and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-08-11 David Wanderman , Tsvi Piran

The lack of bright host galaxies in several recently examined gamma-ray burst (GRB) error boxes suggests that the redshifts of cosmological GRBs may be significantly higher than previously believed. On the other hand, the non-detection of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Daniel E. Holz , M. Coleman Miller , Jean M. Quashnock

Motivated by the recent observational and theoretical evidence that long Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are likely associated with low metallicity, rapidly rotating massive stars, we examine the cosmological star formation rate (SFR) below a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Lapi , N. Kawakatu , Z. Bosnjak , A. Celotti , A. Bressan , G. L. Granato , L. Danese

New two- and three-dimensional calculations are presented of relativistic jet propagation and break out in massive Wolf-Rayet stars. Such jets are thought responsible for gamma-ray bursts. As it erupts, the jet is surrounded by a cocoon of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Weiqun Zhang , S. E. Woosley , A. Heger

The source population of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) declines towards the present epoch being consistent with the measured decline of the star formation rate. We show this using the brightness distribution of 3255 long BATSE GRBs found in an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 B. E. Stern , Ya. Tikhomirova , R. Svensson