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The complete Swift Burst Alert Telescope and X-Ray Telescope light curves of 118 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) with known redshifts were fitted using the physical model of GRB pulses by Willingale et al. to produce a total of 607 pulses. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-29 A Amaral-Rogers , R. Willingale , P. T. O'Brien

It has been suggested that cosmological gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) can produce the observed flux and spectrum of cosmic rays at the highest energies. However, recent observations indicate that the redshift distribution of GRBs most likely…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 F. W. Stecker

If Gamma-Ray-Bursts (GRBs) occur at high redshifts, then their bright afterglow emission can be used to probe the ionization and metal enrichment histories of the intervening intergalactic medium during the epoch of reionization. In…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Benedetta Ciardi , Abraham Loeb

We construct the Hubble diagram (HD) of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) with redshifts reaching up to $z \sim 6$, by using five luminosity vs. luminosity indicator relations calibrated with the Cardassian cosmology. This model has a major…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-24 Herman J. Mosquera Cuesta , Habib Dumet M. , Cristina Furlanetto

The principal goal of this paper is to use attempts at reconciling the Swift long gamma-ray bursts (LGRBs) with the star formation history (SFH) to compare the predictions of $\Lambda$CDM with those in the $R_{\rm h}=ct$ Universe. In the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Jun-Jie Wei , Xue-Feng Wu , Fulvio Melia , Da-Ming Wei , Long-Long Feng

Several hundred gamma-ray burst (GRB) redshifts have been determined to date. One of the other important properties-besides the distance-of the GRBs is the duration of the burst. In this paper, we analyse these two important quantities of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-30 I. Horvath , I. I. Racz , Z. Bagoly , L. G. Balazs , S. Pinter

Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are the most powerful cosmic explosions since the Big Bang, and thus act as signposts throughout the distant Universe. Over the last 2 decades, these ultra-luminous cosmological explosions have been transformed from…

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

I review the searches for gamma-ray bursts at very high redshift. Although the numbers of GRBs known at z>6 remain few, even small samples can provide information about early star and galaxy formation in the universe which is very hard to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-24 N. R. Tanvir

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are bright flashes of gamma-rays coming from the cosmos. They occur roughly once per day, last typically 10s of seconds and are the most luminous events in the universe. More than three decades after their discovery,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-09-03 Neil Gehrels , Peter Meszaros

We discuss several constraints on the properties of gamma-ray bursts (GRB) at cosmological distances. First we use the requirement that burst sources must be optically thin to pair production by photon-photon collisions in order to produce…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Eric Woods , Abraham Loeb

Being able to quickly select among gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) seen by the Swift satellite those which are high-z candidates would give ground-based observers a better chance to determine a redshift for such distant GRBs. Information about…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-06-25 T. N. Ukwatta , T. Sakamoto , K. S. Dhuga , W. C. Parke , S. D. Barthelmy , N. Gehrels , M. Stamatikos , J. Tueller

Nowadays, fast radio bursts (FRBs) have been a promising probe for astronomy and cosmology. However, it is not easy to identify the redshifts of FRBs to date. Thus, no sufficient actual FRBs with identified redshifts can be used to study…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-05 Da-Chun Qiang , Hao Wei

The observation by the BATSE instrument on the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory that gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are distributed isotropically around the Earth but nonuniformly in distance has led to the widespread conclusion that GRBs are most…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 S. E. Thorsett

Long-duration gamma-ray bursts are the manifestations of massive stellar death. Due to the immense energy release they are detectable from most of the observable universe. In this way they allow us to study the deaths of single (or binary)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-25 J. Fynbo , D. Malesani

Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) have remained a puzzle for many high-energy astrophysicists since their discovery in 1967. With the advent of the X-ray satellites BeppoSAX and RossiXTE, it has been possible to carry out deep multi-wavelength…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Alberto J. Castro-Tirado

In an effort to understand the puzzle of classifying gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), we perform a systematic study of {\it Swift} GRBs and investigate several short GRB issues. Though short GRBs have a short ($\lesssim2$ s) prompt duration as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-08-24 Lang Shao , Zi-Gao Dai , Yi-Zhong Fan , Fu-Wen Zhang , Zhi-Ping Jin , Da-Ming Wei

The redshift distribution of gamma-ray bursts collected in the BATSE Catalog is compared with the star formation rate. We aim to clarify the accordance between them. We also study the case of comoving number density of bursts monotonously…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Meszaros , Z. Bagoly , L. G. Balazs , I. Horvath

We explore large-scale cosmic structure using the spatial distribution of 542 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) having accurately measured positions and spectroscopic redshifts. Prominent cosmological clusters are identified in both the northern and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-19 Istvan Horvath , Zsolt Bagoly , Lajos G. Balazs , Jon Hakkila , Zsuzsa Horvath , Andras Peter Joo , Sandor Pinter , L. Viktor Tóth , Peter Veres , Istvan I. Racz