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 …

Short-duration gamma-ray bursts

E Berger - Annual review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) display a bimodal duration distribution with a separation between
the short-and long-duration bursts at about 2 s. The progenitors of long GRBs have been …

A long-duration gamma-ray burst with a peculiar origin

J Yang, S Ai, BB Zhang, B Zhang, ZK Liu, XI Wang… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
It is generally believed that long-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are associated with
massive star core collapse, whereas short-duration GRBs are associated with mergers of …

[HTML][HTML] Short GRB host galaxies. I. Photometric and spectroscopic catalogs, host associations, and galactocentric offsets

W Fong, AE Nugent, Y Dong, E Berger… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a comprehensive optical and near-infrared census of the fields of 90 short
gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) discovered in 2005–2021, constituting all short GRBs for which …

Discovery and confirmation of the shortest gamma-ray burst from a collapsar

T Ahumada, LP Singer, S Anand, MW Coughlin… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are among the brightest and most energetic events in the
Universe. The duration and hardness distribution of GRBs has two clusters, now understood …

The Observer's Guide to the Gamma‐Ray Burst Supernova Connection

Z Cano, SQ Wang, ZG Dai, XF Wu - Advances in Astronomy, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
We present a detailed report of the connection between long‐duration gamma‐ray bursts
(GRBs) and their accompanying supernovae (SNe). The discussion presented here places …

The first JWST spectrum of a GRB afterglow: no bright supernova in observations of the brightest GRB of all time, GRB 221009A

AJ Levan, GP Lamb, B Schneider… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract We present James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and Hubble Space Telescope
(HST) observations of the afterglow of GRB 221009A, the brightest gamma-ray burst (GRB) …

The fast, luminous ultraviolet transient AT2018cow: extreme supernova, or disruption of a star by an intermediate-mass black hole?

DA Perley, PA Mazzali, L Yan, SB Cenko… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Wide-field optical surveys have begun to uncover large samples of fast (t rise≲ 5 d),
luminous (M peak<− 18), blue transients. While commonly attributed to the breakout of a …

Overview of KAGRA: KAGRA science

T Akutsu, M Ando, K Arai, Y Arai, S Araki… - … of Theoretical and …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
KAGRA is a newly build gravitational wave observatory, a laser interferometer with 3 km arm
length, located in Kamioka, Gifu, Japan. In this paper, one of a series of articles featuring …

The Palomar Transient Factory core-collapse supernova host-galaxy sample. I. Host-galaxy distribution functions and environment dependence of core-collapse …

S Schulze, O Yaron, J Sollerman… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Several thousand core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) of different flavors have been
discovered so far. However, identifying their progenitors has remained an outstanding open …