Galaxies in the first billion years after the Big Bang

DP Stark - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2016 - annualreviews.org
In the past five years, deep imaging campaigns conducted with the Hubble Space
Telescope (HST) and ground-based observatories have delivered large samples of galaxies …

Gamma-ray burst progenitors

A Levan, P Crowther, R de Grijs, N Langer, D Xu… - Space Science …, 2016 - Springer
We review our current understanding of the progenitors of both long and short duration
gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Constraints can be derived from multiple directions, and we use …

Host galaxy properties and offset distributions of fast radio bursts: implications for their progenitors

KE Heintz, JX Prochaska, S Simha… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We present observations and detailed characterizations of five new host galaxies of fast
radio bursts (FRBs) discovered with the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder …

Evolution of the AGN UV luminosity function from redshift 7.5

G Kulkarni, G Worseck… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Determinations of the ultraviolet (UV) luminosity function of active galactic nuclei (AGN) at
high redshifts are important for constraining the AGN contribution to reionization and …

A γ-ray burst at a redshift of z≈ 8.2

NR Tanvir, DB Fox, AJ Levan, E Berger, K Wiersema… - Nature, 2009 - nature.com
Long-duration γ-ray bursts (GRBs) are thought to result from the explosions of certain
massive stars, and some are bright enough that they should be observable out to redshifts of …

The luminosity function and the rate of Swift's gamma-ray bursts

D Wanderman, T Piran - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
We invert directly the redshift–luminosity distribution of observed long Swift gamma-ray
bursts (GRBs) to obtain their rate and luminosity function. Our best-fitting rate is described by …

The Afterglow of GRB 130427A from 1 to 1016 GHz

DA Perley, SB Cenko, A Corsi, NR Tanvir… - The Astrophysical …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
We present multiwavelength observations of the afterglow of GRB 130427A, the brightest (in
total fluence) gamma-ray burst (GRB) of the past 29 yr. Optical spectroscopy from Gemini …

The afterglows of Swift-era gamma-ray bursts. I. Comparing pre-Swift and Swift-era long/soft (type II) GRB optical afterglows

DA Kann, S Klose, B Zhang, D Malesani… - The Astrophysical …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
We have gathered optical photometry data from the literature on a large sample of Swift-era
gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglows including GRBs up to 2009 September, for a total of 76 …

The GRB-supernova connection

J Hjorth, JS Bloom - Cambridge Astrophysics Series, 2012 - books.google.com
Well before the afterglow era, Paczynski (1986) noted that “cosmological” distances of GRBs
would imply that the energy release in gamma rays would be comparable to the energy …

The swift GRB host galaxy legacy survey. ii. rest-frame near-ir luminosity distribution and evidence for a near-solar metallicity threshold

DA Perley, NR Tanvir, J Hjorth, T Laskar… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We present rest-frame near-IR (NIR) luminosities and stellar masses for a large and
uniformly selected population of gamma-ray burst (GRB) host galaxies using deep Spitzer …