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Very-high-energy (VHE; >~100 GeV) gamma-rays are expected from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) in some scenarios. Exploring this photon energy regime is necessary for understanding the energetics and properties of GRBs. GRBs have been one of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-02-27 F. Aharonian

Gamma-ray Bursts (GRB) were discovered by satellite-based detectors as powerful sources of transient $\gamma$-ray emission. The Fermi satellite detected an increasing number of these events with its dedicated Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM),…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-29 G. La Mura , U. Barres de Almeida , R. Conceição , A. De Angelis , F. Longo , M. Pimenta , E. Prandini , E. Ruiz-Velasco , B. Tomé

Cosmological gamma ray bursts (GRBs) are the brightest explosions in the Universe. Satellite detectors, such as Beppo-SAX, HETE2 and more recently Swift, have provided a wealth of data, including the localization and redshifts of subsets of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 David Coward

Using Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) and Expectation Maximization Algorithm, we perform an analysis of time duration ($T_{90}$) for \textit{CGRO}/BATSE, \textit{Swift}/BAT and \textit{Fermi}/GBM Gamma-Ray Bursts. The $T_{90}$ distributions of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-01 En-Bo Yang , Zhi-Bin Zhang , Chul-Sung Choi , Heon-Young Chang

The distribution of the apparent total energy emitted by a gamma-ray burst reflects not only the distribution of the energy actually released by the burst engine, but also the distribution of beaming angles. Using the observed energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 David L. Band

We have recently completed a search of 6 years of archival BATSE data for gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) that were too faint to activate the real-time burst detection system running onboard the spacecraft. These "non-triggered" bursts can be…

A recent spectrum of the optical afterglow of GRB 970508 suggests that gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are cosmological in origin and it is of crucial importance to derive an accurate distance to each burst. If GRBs occur near their host galaxies…

During its first cycle of observations, VERITAS observed several GRBs in response to broadcast alerts from the Gamma-ray bursts Coordinates Network (GCN). The GRBs were followed up and observed thereafter with typical delays of 2 to 4…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Nicola Galante

Using multiwavelength observations of radio afterglows, we confirm the hypothesis that the flux density of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) at a fixed observing frequency is invariable when the distance of the GRBs increases, which means the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-10 Z. B. Zhang , P. Chandra , Y. F. Huang , D. Li

Recent advances in fitting prompt emission spectra in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are boosting our understanding of the still elusive origin of this radiation. These progresses have been possible thanks to a more detailed analysis of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-07 Lara Nava , Gor Oganesyan , Maria E. Ravasio , Lorenzo Amati , Giancarlo Ghirlanda , Paul O'Brien , Julian P. Osborne , Richard Willingale

A bright, long gamma-ray burst (GRB) was detected and localized by the instruments on board the High Energy Transient Explorer 2 satellite (HETE-2) at 02:44:19.17 UTC (9859.17 s UT) on 2002 August 13. The location was reported to the GRB…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 R. Sato , the HETE Science Team

Popular models for the origin of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) include short-lived massive stars as the progenitors of the fireballs. Hence the redshift distribution of GRBs should track the cosmic star formation rate of massive stars accurately.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Andrew W. Blain , Priyamvada Natarajan

We present results from the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) follow-up observations of Gamma-ray Bursts (GRBs) between 2004 and 2019. We are focusing on non-detections and providing the most extensive set of very-high-energy (VHE,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-22 E. Ruiz-Velasco , C. Arcaro , M. de Bony de Lavergne , Z. Huang , D. Sanchez , M. Senniappan , S. Wagner , S. Zhu , the H. E. S. S. Collaboration

We present a systematic spectral analysis of 350 bright Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) observed with the Burst and Transient Source Experiment (BATSE; $\sim$ 30 keV -- 2 MeV) with high temporal and spectral resolution. Our sample was selected from…

While the available set of Gamma-ray Burst (GRB) data with known redshift is currently limited, a much larger set of GRB data without redshift is available from different instruments. This data includes well-measured prompt gamma-ray flux…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-25 Tamador Aldowma , Soebur Razzaque

The X-ray afterglow of many gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) exhibits a plateau phase before the normal power-law decay stage, which may be related to continued activities of the central engine. Tang et al. 2019 collected 174 such GRBs and confirmed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-08 Chen Deng , Yong-Feng Huang , Fan Xu

The prompt emission mechanism of gamma-ray bursts (GRB) even after several decades remains a mystery. However, it is believed that correlations between observable GRB properties given their huge luminosity/radiated energy and redshift…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-25 Maria Dainotti

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…

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are particle acceleration sites that can emit photons in the very high-energy (VHE) domain through non-thermal processes. From 2004 until 2018, the current generation of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-27 Halim Ashkar , Aurélie Sangaré , Stephen Fegan , Jean Damascene Mbarubucyeye , Edna Ruiz-Velasco , Sylvia J. Zhu

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