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We present the results of the spectral analysis of a sample of short bright $\gamma$--ray bursts (GRB) detected by BATSE and compare them with the average and time resolved spectral properties of long bright bursts. While the spectral…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Ghirlanda , G. Ghisellini , A. Celotti

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

In this paper, we systematically investigate the redshift and luminosity distributions as well as the event rates of short Gamma-Ray Bursts (SGRBs) detected by Swift, Fermi, Konus-wind satellites. It is found that the distributions of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-03 X. Y. Du , Z. B. Zhang , W. C. Du , G. A. Li , Y. Liu , H. C. Liu

We study the spectra of short-bright GRBs detected by BATSE and compare them with the average and time resolved spectral properties of long-bright bursts. We confirm that short events are harder than long bursts, as already found from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Ghirlanda , G. Ghisellini , A. Celotti

We compute the luminosity function (LF) and the formation rate of long gamma ray bursts (GRBs) by fitting the observed differential peak flux distribution obtained by the BATSE experiment in two different scenarios: i) the GRB luminosity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 R. Salvaterra , C. Guidorzi , S. Campana , G. Chincarini , G. Tagliaferri

Evolution of the rate density of cosmological gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is calculated and compared to the BATSE brightness distribution in the context of binary neutron-star mergers as the source of GRBs, taking account of the realistic star…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 Tomonori Totani

We have performed detailed population synthesis on a large number (20 million) of binary systems in order to investigate the properties of massive double degenerate binaries. We have included new important results in our input physics in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-09 Rasmus Voss , Thomas M. Tauris

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

Starting with models for the compact object merger event rate, the short-duration Gamma-ray Burst (sGRB) luminosity function, and the Swift/BAT detector, we calculate the observed Swift sGRB rate and its uncertainty. Our probabilistic sGRB…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-31 Tzvetelina A. Dimitrova , Nathaniel R. Butler , Srihari Ravi

The determination of luminosity function (LF) of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is of an important role for the cosmological applications of the GRBs, which is however hindered seriously by some selection effects due to redshift measurements. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-10-17 Wei-Wei Tan , Xiao-Feng Cao , Yun-Wei Yu

There is increasing evidence of a local population of short duration Gamma-ray Bursts (sGRB), but it remains to be seen whether this is a separate population to higher redshift bursts. Here we choose plausible Luminosity Functions (LF) for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Robert Chapman , Robert S. Priddey , Nial R. Tanvir

We calculate durations and spectral parameters for 207 Swift bursts detected by the BAT instrument from April 2007 to August 2009, including 67 events with measured redshifts. This is the first supplement to our catalog of 425 Swift GRBs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Nathaniel R. Butler , Joshua S. Bloom , Dovi Poznanski

Recent observations have accumulated compelling evidence that some short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs) are associated with the mergers of neutron star (NS) binaries. This would indicate that the SGRB event is associated with a gravitational-wave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-11 Samaya Nissanke , Daniel E. Holz , Neal Dalal , Scott A. Hughes , Jonathan L. Sievers , Christopher M. Hirata

Following the faint gamma-ray burst, GRB 170817A, coincident with a gravitational wave-detected binary neutron star merger at $d\sim40$ Mpc, we consider the constraints on a local population of faint short duration GRBs (defined here…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-04 Soheb Mandhai , Nial Tanvir , Gavin Lamb , Andrew Levan , David Tsang

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most violent explosions in the Universe and can be used to explore the properties of high-redshift universe. It is believed that the long GRBs are associated with the deaths of massive stars. So it is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 H. Yu , F. Y. Wang , Z. G. Dai , K. S. Cheng

We compare the luminosity function and rate inferred from the GBM long bursts peak flux distribution with those inferred from the Swift and BATSE peak flux distribution. We find that the GBM, BATSE and the Swift peak fluxes can be fitted by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-11-05 Dafne Guetta , Elena Pian

Recent rapid localizations of short, hard gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) by the Swift and HETE satellites have led to the observation of the first afterglows and the measurement of the first redshifts from this type of burst. Detection of >100 GeV…

Short and long-short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are widely believed to be powered by neutron star mergers. In this work, we calculate local rate of such GRBs and find a relatively high value of $\sim 786-2468~{\rm Gpc^{-3}~yr^{-1}}$ when…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-09 Zhi-Ping Jin , Yuan-Zhu Wang , Yin-Jie Li , Yun Wang , Hao Wang , Shao-Peng Tang , Da-Ming Wei

The recent discovery of the first four afterglows of short-hard gamma-ray bursts (SHBs), suggests that they typically result from long-lived progenitor systems. The most popular progenitor model invokes the merger of either double neutron…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ehud Nakar , Avishay Gal-Yam , Derek B. Fox

Using the observed rate of short-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) it is possible to make predictions for the detectable rate of compact binary coalescences in gravitational-wave detectors. These estimates rely crucially on the growing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Hsin-Yu Chen , Daniel E. Holz