Gamma-ray bursts and their use as cosmic probes

P Schady - Royal Society open science, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Since the launch of the highly successful and ongoing Swift mission, the field of gamma-ray
bursts (GRBs) has undergone a revolution. The arcsecond GRB localizations available …

Afterglow observations of Fermi large area telescope gamma-ray bursts and the emerging class of hyper-energetic events

SB Cenko, DA Frail, FA Harrison… - The Astrophysical …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
We present broadband (radio, optical, and X-ray) light curves and spectra of the afterglows
of four long-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs; GRBs 090323, 090328, 090902B, and …

Gamma-ray burst afterglow broadband fitting based directly on hydrodynamics simulations

H Van Eerten, A Van Der Horst… - The Astrophysical …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a powerful new tool for fitting broadband gamma-ray burst afterglow data, which
can be used to determine the burst explosion parameters and the synchrotron radiation …

Electrons' energy in GRB afterglows implied by radio peaks

P Beniamini, AJ van der Horst - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglows have been observed across the electromagnetic
spectrum, and physical parameters of GRB jets and their surroundings have been derived …

GRB 130427A: a nearby ordinary monster

A Maselli, A Melandri, L Nava, CG Mundell, N Kawai… - Science, 2014 - science.org
Long-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are an extremely rare outcome of the collapse of
massive stars and are typically found in the distant universe. Because of its intrinsic …

Observational implications of gamma-ray burst afterglow jet simulations and numerical light curve calculations

HJ Van Eerten, AI MacFadyen - The Astrophysical Journal, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
We discuss jet dynamics for narrow and wide gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglow jets and the
observational implications of numerical simulations of relativistic jets in two dimensions. We …

On the lateral expansion of gamma-ray burst jets

J Granot, T Piran - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
The dynamics of gamma-ray burst jets during the afterglow phase have an important effect
on the interpretation of their observations and for inferring key physical parameters such as …

ZTF20aajnksq (AT 2020blt): a fast optical transient at z≈ 2.9 with no detected gamma-ray burst counterpart

AYQ Ho, DA Perley, P Beniamini… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We present ZTF20aajnksq (AT 2020blt), a fast-fading (Δr= 2.3 mag in Δt= 1.3 days) red (g−
r≈ 0.6 mag) and luminous (M 1626 Å=− 25.9 mag) optical transient at z= 2.9 discovered by …

Synthetic off-axis light curves for low-energy gamma-ray bursts

HJ Van Eerten, AI MacFadyen - The Astrophysical Journal …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
We present results for a large number of gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglow light curve
calculations, done by combining high-resolution two-dimensional relativistic hydrodynamics …

Gamma-ray burst jets and their radio observations

J Granot, AJ Van Der Horst - … of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 2014 - cambridge.org
Radio observations play a key role in studying the jets that power GRBs, the most luminous
cosmic explosions. They are crucial for determining the GRB jet energy, the external density …