The physics of gamma-ray bursts & relativistic jets

P Kumar, B Zhang - Physics Reports, 2015 - Elsevier
We provide a comprehensive review of major developments in our understanding of gamma-
ray bursts, with particular focus on the discoveries made within the last fifteen years when …

A kilonova following a long-duration gamma-ray burst at 350 Mpc

JC Rastinejad, BP Gompertz, AJ Levan, W Fong… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are divided into two populations,; long GRBs that derive from the
core collapse of massive stars (for example, ref.) and short GRBs that form in the merger of …

[HTML][HTML] Short gamma-ray bursts: A review

P D'Avanzo - Journal of High Energy Astrophysics, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are rapid, bright flashes of radiation peaking in the
gamma-ray band occurring at an average rate of one event per day at cosmological …

The case for a minute-long merger-driven gamma-ray burst from fast-cooling synchrotron emission

BP Gompertz, ME Ravasio, M Nicholl, AJ Levan… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
For decades, gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have been broadly divided into long-and short-
duration bursts, lasting more or less than 2 s, respectively. However, this dichotomy does not …

The Ep,iEiso correlation: type I gamma-ray bursts and the new classification method

PY Minaev, AS Pozanenko - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
We present the most extensive sample of 45 type I (short) and 275 type II (long) gamma-ray
bursts (GRBs) with known redshift to investigate the correlation between the rest-frame peak …

Gamma‐Ray Burst Prompt Correlations

MG Dainotti, R Del Vecchio… - Advances in …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The mechanism responsible for the prompt emission of gamma‐ray bursts (GRBs) is still a
debated issue. The prompt phase‐related GRB correlations can allow discriminating among …

An achromatic break in the afterglow of the short GRB 140903A: evidence for a narrow jet

E Troja, T Sakamoto, SB Cenko, A Lien… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We report the results of our observing campaign on GRB 140903A, a nearby (z= 0.351)
short-duration (T 90∼ 0.3 s) gamma-ray burst discovered by Swift. We monitored the X-ray …

GRB 221009A: An ordinary nearby GRB with extraordinary observational properties

L Lan, H Gao, A Li, S Xiao, S Ai, ZK Peng… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The gamma-ray burst GRB 221009A, known as the" brightest of all time," is the closest
energetic burst detected so far, with an energy of E γ, iso∼ 10 55 erg. This study aims to …

Comparing the spectral lag of short and long gamma-ray bursts and its relation with the luminosity

MG Bernardini, G Ghirlanda, S Campana… - Monthly Notices of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
We investigated the rest-frame spectral lags of two complete samples of bright long (50) and
short (6) gamma-ray bursts (GRB) detected by Swift. We analysed the Swift/Burst Alert …

Energetic transients joint analysis system for multi-INstrument (ETJASMIN) for GECAM–I. Positional, temporal, and spectral analyses

S Xiao, SL Xiong, C Cai, LM Song… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Gravitational wave high-energy Electromagnetic Counterpart All-sky Monitor (GECAM) is a
dedicated mission, launched in December 2020, for gamma-ray transients, including …