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The brightest Gamma-ray burst (GRB) ever, GRB 221009A, displays ultra-long GRB (ULGRB) characteristics, with a prompt emission duration exceeding 1000 s. To constrain the origin and central engine of this unique burst, we analyze its prompt…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-04 Amit Kumar Ror , Rahul Gupta , Amar Aryan , Shashi Bhushan Pandey , S. R. Oates , A. J. Castro-Tirado , Sudhir Kumar

GRB 201015A is a long-duration Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) which was detected at very high energies (> 100 GeV) using the MAGIC telescopes. If confirmed, this would be the fifth and least luminous GRB ever detected at this energies. We performed…

Strong optical and near-infrared (NIR) flares were discovered in the afterglow of GRB 080129. Their temporal behaviors, the sudden emergence and the quick disappearance, are rather similar to that of many X-ray flares (for instance, the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Wei-Hong Gao

The prompt emission of the long, smooth, and single-pulsed gamma-ray burst, GRB $\textit{141028A}$, is analyzed under the guise of an external shock model. First, we fit the $\gamma$-ray spectrum with a two-component photon model, namely…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-25 J. Michael Burgess , Damien Bégué , Felix Ryde , Nicola Omodei , Asaf Pe'er , J. L. Racusin , A. Cucchiara

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

We present multi-frequency radio observations from the afterglow of GRB 980519 beginning 7.2 hours after the gamma-ray burst and ending 63 days later. The fast decline in the optical and X-ray light curves for this burst has been…

The short gamma-ray burst (GRB) 170817A was the first GRB associated with a gravitational-wave event. Due to the exceptionally low luminosity of the prompt $\gamma$-ray and the afterglow emission, the origin of both radiation components is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-05 L. Resmi , S. Schulze , C. H. Ishwara Chandra , K. Misra , J. Buchner , M. De Pasquale , R. Sanchez Ramirez , S. Klose , S. Kim , N. R. Tanvir , P. T. O'Brien

We present detailed optical, X-ray and radio observations of the bright afterglow of the short gamma-ray burst 051221a obtained with Gemini, Swift/XRT, and the Very Large Array, as well as optical spectra from which we measure the redshift…

About 15% of Gamma Ray Bursts have precursors, i.e. emission episodes preceding the main event, whose spectral and temporal properties are similar to the main emission. We propose that precursors have their own fireball, producing afterglow…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 F. Nappo , G. Ghisellini , G. Ghirlanda , A. Melandri , L. Nava , D. Burlon

We present and perform a detailed analysis of multi-wavelength observations of \thisgrb, an optical bright GRB with an observed reverse shock (RS) signature. Observations of this GRB were acquired with the BOOTES-4 robotic telescope, the…

Gamma-ray bursts early afterglows are important tracers for determining the radial structure and magnetization of the ejecta. In this paper, we focus on GRB 110213A that shows double-peaked optical afterglow lightcurves and the shallow…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-04 Yo Kusafuka , Kaori Obayashi , Katsuaki Asano , Ryo Yamazaki

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 show that the re-brightening in the GRB 021004 optical afterglow light curve around ~ 0.1 day can be explained within the framework of the standard fireball model. The superposition of a forward and reverse shock emissions result in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Shiho Kobayashi , Bing Zhang

The long and relatively faint gamma-ray burst GRB 060605 detected by \emph{Swift}/BAT lasted about 20 sec. Its afterglow could be observed with \emph{Swift}/XRT for nearly 1 day, while \emph{Swift}/UVOT could detect the afterglow during the…

The early optical afterglow of GRB 050820a recorded by the RAPTOR telescope shows both a contribution from the prompt emission and the initial rise of the afterglow. It is therefore well-suited for the study of the dynamical evolution of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. Genet , F. Daigne , R. Mochkovitch

We report the discovery of radio afterglow emission from the gamma-ray burst GRB 090423, which exploded at a redshift of 8.3, making it the object with the highest known redshift in the Universe. By combining our radio measurements with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Poonam Chandra , Dale A. Frail , Derek Fox , Shrinivas Kulkarni , Edo BErger , S. Bradley Cenko , Douglas C. -J. Bock , Fiona Harrison , Mansi Kasliwal

The plateaus observed in about one half of the early X-ray afterglows are the most puzzling feature in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) detected by Swift. By analyzing the temporal and spectral indices of a large X-ray plateau sample, we find that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-19 Rongfeng Shen , Christopher D. Matzner

In this paper, within the popular internal shock scenario of GRBs, we calculate the early optical afterglow lightcurves of a neutron-fed GRB fireball for different assumed neutron fractions in the fireball and for both ISM- and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Y. Z. Fan , B. Zhang , D. M. Wei

The first gamma-ray burst (GRB) confirmed to be bright enough to be seen with the naked eye, GRB 080319B at redshift z = 0.937, allowed for exquisite follow-up observations across the electromagnetic spectrum. We present our detailed…