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 …

Quantum-spacetime phenomenology

G Amelino-Camelia - Living Reviews in Relativity, 2013 - Springer
I review the current status of phenomenological programs inspired by quantum-spacetime
research. I stress in particular the significance of results establishing that certain data …

Fermi-GBM discovery of GRB 221009A: An extraordinarily bright GRB from onset to afterglow

S Lesage, P Veres, MS Briggs… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We report the discovery of GRB 221009A, the highest flux gamma-ray burst (GRB) ever
observed by the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (Fermi-GBM). This GRB has continuous …

The Fermi GBM gamma-ray burst spectral catalog: four years of data

D Gruber, A Goldstein, VW von Ahlefeld… - The Astrophysical …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
In this catalog we present the updated set of spectral analyses of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs)
detected by the Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor during its first four years of operation. It …

The second Fermi Large Area Telescope catalog of gamma-ray pulsars

AA Abdo, M Ajello, A Allafort, L Baldini… - The Astrophysical …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
This catalog summarizes 117 high-confidence⩾ 0. 1 GeV gamma-ray pulsar detections
using three years of data acquired by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the Fermi satellite …

Fermi-LAT observations of the gamma-ray burst GRB 130427A

M Ackermann, M Ajello, K Asano, WB Atwood… - Science, 2014 - science.org
The observations of the exceptionally bright gamma-ray burst (GRB) 130427A by the Large
Area Telescope aboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope provide constraints on the …

Modeling the extragalactic background light from stars and dust

JD Finke, S Razzaque, CD Dermer - The Astrophysical Journal, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
The extragalactic background light (EBL) from the far-infrared through the visible and
extending into the ultraviolet is thought to be dominated by starlight, either through direct …

The first Fermi-LAT gamma-ray burst catalog

M Ackermann, M Ajello, K Asano… - The Astrophysical …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
In three years of observations since the beginning of nominal science operations in 2008
August, the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope …

Fermi observations of grb 090510: A short–hard gamma-ray burst with an additional, hard power-law component from 10 kev to gev energies

M Ackermann, K Asano, WB Atwood… - The Astrophysical …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
We present detailed observations of the bright short–hard gamma-ray burst GRB 090510
made with the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) and Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board …

Collisional mechanism for gamma-ray burst emission

AM Beloborodov - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Nuclear and Coulomb collisions in gamma-ray burst (GRB) jets create a hot e±plasma. This
collisional heating starts when the jet is still opaque, and extends to the transparent region …