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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

We present the first comprehensive search for submillimeter and radio emission from the host galaxies of twenty well-localized gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). With the exception of a single source, all observations were undertaken months to years…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 E. Berger , L. L. Cowie , S. R. Kulkarni , D. A. Frail , H. Aussel , A. J. Barger

We briefly review the current status of the study of long-duration gamma-ray burst (GRB) host galaxies. GRB host galaxies are mainly interesting to study for two reasons: 1) they may help us understand where and when massive stars were…

The data on the location of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) relative to their host galaxies are used to derive the distribution of surface density of GRBs along the galaxy radius. It is shown that the gradient of GRB surface density changes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Yu. Tsvetkov , S. I. Blinnikov , N. N. Pavlyuk

We present the first observations from a large-scale survey of nearby (z < 1) long-duration gamma-ray burst (LGRB) host galaxies, which consist of eight rest-frame optical spectra obtained at Keck and Magellan. Along with two host galaxy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 Emily M. Levesque , Edo Berger , Lisa J. Kewley , Megan M. Bagley

The study of short-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) has undergone a revolution in recent years thanks to the discovery of the first afterglows and host galaxies in May 2005. In this review we summarize our current knowledge of the galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-12-22 Edo Berger , Wen-fai Fong

Luminous infrared galaxies and submillimeter galaxies contribute significantly to stellar mass assembly and the frequency of GRBs in these systems provides an important test of the connection between the gamma-ray burst rate and that of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-22 D. A. Perley , R. A. Perley , J. Hjorth , M. J. Michałowski , S. B. Cenko , P. Jakobsson , T. Krühler , A. J. Levan , D. Malesani , N. R. Tanvir

We present GeMS/GSAOI observations of five fast radio burst (FRB) host galaxies with sub-arcsecond localizations. We examine and quantify their spatial distributions and locations with respect to their host galaxy light distributions,…

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

The rapid succession of discovery of short--duration hard--spectrum GRBs has led to unprecedented insights into the energetics of the explosion and nature of the progenitors. Yet short of the detection of a smoking gun, like a burst of…

We present millimetre (mm) and submillimetre (submm) photometry of a sample of host galaxies of Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs), obtained using the MAMBO2 and SCUBA bolometer arrays respectively. These observations were obtained as part of an…

There is now an increasing number of evidence supporting the idea that the cosmic Gamma-ray Bursts (GRBs) originate from the collapse of massive stars in distant star-forming galaxies. Because GRBs are likely detectable up to very high…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Le Floc'h , P. -A. Duc , I. F. Mirabel

The quoted intrinsic luminosity of objects has a dependency on the assumed cosmology, and the (less often considered) assumed gravitational lensing due to the matter content of the viewing beam; the so called `filled' or `empty' beam cases.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 C. A. Scharf , K. C. Sahu

According to recent models, gamma-ray bursts apparently explode in a wide variety of ambient densities ranging from ~ 10^{-3} to 30 cm^{-3}. The lowest density environments seem, at first sight, to be incompatible with bursts in or near…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 John Scalo , J. Craig Wheeler

[Abridged] The study of short-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) experienced a complete revolution in recent years thanks to the discovery of the first afterglows and host galaxies in May 2005. These observations demonstrated that short GRBs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-17 E. Berger

We present observations and analysis of the host galaxies of 23 heavily dust-obscured gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) observed by the Swift satellite during the years 2005-2009, representing all GRBs with an unambiguous host-frame extinction of…

Considering the contribution of the emission from the host galaxies of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) to the radio afterglows, we investigate the effect of host galaxies on observations statistically. For the three types of events, e.g.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-05 Long-Biao Li , Zhi-Bin Zhang , Yong-Feng Huang , Xue-Feng Wu , Si-Wei Kong , Di Li , Heon-Young Chang , Chul-Sung Choi

High-energy photons emitted from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are subject to pair-production interactions with lower energy photons, leading to an effective optical depth. In this Letter, we estimate the opacity resulting from photon fields…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-11-02 Rudy C. Gilmore , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

The physics of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and their offsets from the centers of their host galaxies are used to investigate the evolutionary state of their progenitors, motivated by the popular idea that GRBs are linked with the cataclysmic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz , Davide Lazzati , Andrew W. Blain

It is usual, in gamma-ray burst (GRB) studies, to compare the average properties of bright and faint GRBs, with the assumption that brightness classes reflect distance classes. When brightness is intented to reflect the distance to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 J-L. Atteia