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 …

Gamma-ray bursts, quasars, baryonic acoustic oscillations, and supernovae Ia: new statistical insights and cosmological constraints

G Bargiacchi, MG Dainotti, S Nagataki… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The recent Hubble constant, H 0, tension is observed between the value of H 0 from the
cosmic microwave background (CMB) and Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). It is a decade since …

Early spectra of the gravitational wave source GW170817: Evolution of a neutron star merger

BJ Shappee, JD Simon, MR Drout, AL Piro, N Morrell… - Science, 2017 - science.org
On 17 August 2017, Swope Supernova Survey 2017a (SSS17a) was discovered as the
optical counterpart of the binary neutron star gravitational wave event GW170817. We report …

Millisecond magnetar birth connects FRB 121102 to superluminous supernovae and long-duration gamma-ray bursts

BD Metzger, E Berger, B Margalit - The Astrophysical Journal, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Subarcsecond localization of the repeating fast radio burst FRB 121102 revealed its
coincidence with a dwarf host galaxy and a steady (" quiescent") nonthermal radio source …

Nucleosynthesis in stars and the chemical enrichment of galaxies

K Nomoto, C Kobayashi… - Annual Review of …, 2013 - annualreviews.org
After the Big Bang, production of heavy elements in the early Universe takes place starting
from the formation of the first stars, their evolution, and explosion. The first supernova …

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 Swift gamma-ray burst mission

N Gehrels, G Chincarini, PE Giommi… - The Astrophysical …, 2004 - iopscience.iop.org
The Swift mission, scheduled for launch in 2004, is a multiwavelength observatory for
gamma-ray burst (GRB) astronomy. It is a first-of-its-kind autonomous rapid-slewing satellite …

The physics of gamma-ray bursts

T Piran - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2004 - APS
Gamma-ray bursts (GRB's), short and intense pulses of low-energy γ rays, have fascinated
astronomers and astrophysicists since their unexpected discovery in the late sixties. During …

The supernova–gamma-ray burst connection

SE Woosley, JS Bloom - Annu. Rev. Astron. Astrophys., 2006 - annualreviews.org
Observations show that at least some gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) happen simultaneously
with core-collapse supernovae (SNe), thus linking by a common thread nature's two …