English
Related papers

Related papers: GRB Repetition Limits from Current BATSE Observati…

200 papers

We use a new method of analysis to determine parameters of cosmological gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), assuming that their distribution follows the star-formation history of the universe. Spectral evolution is calculated from an external shock…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 M. Boettcher , C. D. Dermer

Due to their highly luminous nature, gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are useful tools in studying the early Universe (up to z = 10). We consider whether the available subset of Swift high redshift GRBs are unusual when compared to analogous…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-08-27 O. M. Littlejohns , N. R. Tanvir , R. Willingale , P. T. O'Brien , P. A. Evans , A. J. Levan

We calculate the synchrotron self-Compton emission from internal shocks occurring in relativistic winds as a source of gamma-ray bursts, with allowance for self-absorption. For plausible model parameters most pulses within a Gamma-Ray Burst…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Panaitescu , P. Meszaros

The typical spectra of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are discussed in the context of the compactness problem for GRB sources and how it is resolved in the popular fireball model. In particular, observational (model-independent) constraints on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 V. V. Sokolov , G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan , V. G. Kurt , Yu. N. Gnedin , Yu. V. Baryshev

We present the second Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) catalog of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), which contains 476 bursts detected by the BAT between 2004 December 19 and 2009 December 21. This catalog (hereafter the BAT2 catalog) presents…

The majority of Swift gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) observed at z > 6 have prompt durations of T90 < 30s, which, at first sight, is surprising given that cosmological time-dilation means this corresponds to < 5s in their rest frames. We have…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 O. M. Littlejohns , N. R. Tanvir , R. Willingale , P. A. Evans , P. T. O'Brien , A. J. Levan

We have investigated the bimodal distribution of the duration of BATSE gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) by analyzing light curves of 64 ms time resolution. We define the average pulse width of GRBs from the auto-correlation function of GRB profiles.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Wenfei Yu , Tipei Li , Mei Wu

Typical observational gamma-ray burst (GRB) spectra are discussed and, in this connection, what is the origin of the compactness problem and how it was solved at first. If the threshold for $e^{-}e^{+}$ pair production depends on an angle…

(Abbreviated) The detection rate of a GRB detector can be increased by using a count rate trigger with many accumulation times Dt and energy bands DE, but the nominal sensitivity is less important than how much fainter a burst could be at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 David L. Band

We present a systematic spectral analysis of 350 bright GRBs observed with BATSE, with high spectral and temporal resolution. Our sample was selected from the complete set of 2704 BATSE GRBs, and included 17 short GRBs. To obtain…

The suggested association between the sources of gamma-ray bursts (GRB's) and the sources of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECR's) is based on two arguments: (i) The average energy generation rate of UHECR's is similar to the gamma-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-15 E. Waxman

Traditionally gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are classified in the $T_{90}$-hardness ratio two-dimensional plane into long/soft and short/hard GRBs. In this paper, we suggest to add the "amplitude" of GRB prompt emission as the third dimension as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Hou-Jun Lü , Bing Zhang , En-Wei Liang , Bin-Bin Zhang , Takanori Sakamoto

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are sufficiently energetic to be detectable from luminosity distances up to at least seven billion parsecs (redshift $z > 1$). Probing the maximum energies and luminosities of FRBs constrains their emission…

A sample of 427 gamma-ray bursts from a database (February 2002 - April 2008) of the RHESSI satellite is analyzed statistically. The spectral lags and peak-count rates, which have been calculated for the first time in this paper, are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Jakub Ripa , Attila Meszaros , Peter Veres , Il H. Park

Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) are among the most powerful sources in the Universe: they emit up to 10^54 erg in the hard X-ray band in few tens of seconds. The cosmological origin of GRBs has been confirmed by several spectroscopic measurements…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-19 G. Ghirlanda , G. Ghisellini , C. Firmani

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

A wavelet analysis has been performed on 80 intense gamma-ray bursts GRBs) from the BATSE 3B catalog with durations longer than 2 seconds. The wavelet analysis applied novel features developed for edge detection in image processing and this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-13 Kevin J. Hurley , Brian McBreen , Fergus Quilligan , Matt Delaney , Lorraine Hanlon

The observational diversity of ``gamma-ray bursts'' (GRBs) has been increasing, and the natural inclination is a proliferation of models. We explore the possibility that at least part of this diversity is a consequence of a single basic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 S. E. Woosley , Weiqun Zhang

Before the BATSE/GRO launch GRBs seem to be a uniform phenomenon with duration up to about 100 seconds. The BATSE has detected many events longer than 100 s and a few longer than 500s. We performed the off-line scan of the 1024 ms…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-06 Ya. Tikhomirova , B. E. Stern