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We study the duration and variability of late time X-ray flares following gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) observed by the narrow field X-ray telescope (XRT) aboard the {\it Swift} spacecraft. These flares are thought to be indicative of late time…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Daniel Kocevski , Nathaniel Butler , Joshua S. Bloom

We analyzed data obtained by the SPI telescope onboard the INTEGRAL observatory to search for short transient events with a duration from 1 ms to a few tens of seconds. An algorithm for identifying gamma-ray events against the background of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 P. Yu. Minaev , A. S. Pozanenko , S. V. Molkov , S. A. Grebenev

Correlation studies of prompt and afterglow emissions from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) between different spectral bands has been difficult to do in the past because few bursts had comprehensive and intercomparable afterglow measurements. In…

We systematically compare the temporal and spectral properties of 53 Supernova (SN)-associated and 15 Kilonova (KN)-associated Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs). We find that the spectral parameters of both types GRBs are identically and lognormally…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-19 Q. M. Li , Z. B. Zhang , X. L. Han , K. J. Zhang , X. L. Xia , C. T. Hao

The onset of GRB afterglow is characterized by a smooth bump in the early afterglow lightcurve. We make an extensive search for such a feature. Twenty optically selected GRBs and 12 X-ray selected GRBs are found, among which 17 optically…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-12-09 En-Wei Liang , Shuang-xi Yi , Jin Zhang , Hou-Jun LV , Bin-Bin Zhang , Bing Zhang

We present a comprehensive temporal and spectral analysis of the long-duration gamma-ray burst GRB 110801A, utilizing multi-band data from the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory and ground-based telescopes. The $\gamma$-ray emission exhibits a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-07 Qiu-Li Wang , Hao Zhou , Yun Wang , Jia Ren , Zhi-Ping Jin , Da-Ming Wei

Short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are explosive transients caused by binary mergers of compact objects containing at least one neutron star. Multi-wavelength afterglow observations provide constraints on the physical parameters of the jet, its…

We have investigated the time variations in the light curves from a sample of long and short Fermi/GBM Gamma ray bursts (GRBs) using an impartial wavelet analysis. The results indicate that in the source frame, the variability time scales…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 G. A. MacLachlan , A. Shenoy , E. Sonbas , K. S. Dhuga , B. Cobb , T. N. Ukwatta , D. C. Morris , A. Eskandarian , L. C. Maximon , W. C. Parke

We analyze the temporal structure of long ((T_{90}>2sec)) and short ((T_{90}<2sec)) BATSE bursts. We find that: (i) In many short bursts (\delta t_{min}/T\ll 1) (where (\delta t_{min}) is the shortest pulse). This indicates that short…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 E. Nakar , T. Piran

The recent association of several short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) with early type galaxies with low star formation rate demonstrates that short bursts arise from a different progenitor mechanism than long bursts. However, since the duration…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-30 Jay P. Norris , Jerry T. Bonnell

Since 1997 the afterglow of gamma-ray bursting sources (GRBs) has occasionally been detected in the radio, as well in other wavelengths bands. In particular, the interesting and unusual gamma-ray burst GRB980425, thought to be related to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-13 Kurt W. Weiler , Nino Panagia , Marcos J. Montes

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), the most energetic transients in the Universe, are traditionally classified into long-duration ($T_{90}>2$ s) and short-duration ($T_{90}<2$ s) events, associated with the core collapse of massive stars (Type II)…

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most luminous astrophysical events observed so far. They are conventionally classified into long and short ones depending on their time duration, $T_{90}$. Because of the advantage their high redshifts offer,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Shi Qi , Tan Lu

We show that simple kinematic arguments can give limits on the timescale and amplitude of variabilities in gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglows, especially when the variability timescale is shorter than the observed time since the burst \Delta…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kunihito Ioka , Shiho Kobayashi , Bing Zhang

Well-sampled optical lightcurves of 146 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are complied from the literature. Multiple optical emission components are extracted with power-law function fits to these lightcurves. We present a systematical analysis for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 En-Wei Liang , Liang Li , Qing-Wen Tang , Jie-Min Chen , Bing Zhang

The detection of the delayed emission in X-ray, optical and radio band, i.e. the afterglow of $\gamma$-ray bursts (GRBs), suggestes that the sources of GRBs are likely to be at cosmological distances. Here we explore the interaction of a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 D. M. Wei , T. Lu

Although the time profiles of gamma ray bursts (GRBs) show extremely diverse behavior, their average statistical properties such as the average peak-aligned profile and the auto-correlation function show simple stretched-exponential…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Boris E. Stern , Roland Svensson

Using the Swift data of GRB 050315, we progress on the uniqueness of our theoretically predicted Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) structure as composed by a proper-GRB (P-GRB), emitted at the transparency of an electron-positron plasma with suitable…

Despite decades of investigations, the physical mechanism that powers the bright prompt $\gamma$-ray emission from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is still not identified. One important observational clue that remains not properly interpreted so…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-13 Z. Lucas Uhm , Bing Zhang

Radiation-mediated shocks (RMSs) occurring below the photosphere in a gamma-ray burst (GRB) jet could play a crucial role in shaping the prompt emission. In this paper, we study the time-resolved signal expected from such early shocks. We…

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