Gamma Ray Bursts

Abstract

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are bright flashes of gamma-rays coming from the cosmos. They occur roughly once per day, last typically 10s of seconds and are the most luminous events in the universe. More than three decades after their discovery, and after pioneering advances from space and ground experiments, they still remain mysterious. The launch of the Swift and Fermi satellites in 2004 and 2008 brought in a trove of qualitatively new data. In this review we survey the interplay between these recent observations and the theoretical models of the prompt GRB emission and the subsequent afterglows.

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• Optical and Long Wavelength Afterglow from Gamma-Ray Bursts
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• Hubble Space Telescope Observations of Short GRB Host Galaxies: Morphologies, Offsets, and Local Environments
• GeV emission from Gamma Ray Bursts: a radiative fireball?
• GRB 080913 at redshift 6.7
• Delayed Gev Emission from Cosmological Gamma-Ray Bursts : Impact of a Relativistic Wind on External Matter
• High Energy Neutrino Emission and Neutrino Background from Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Internal Shock Model
• Neutrino afterglow from Gamma-Ray Bursts: ~10^{18} eV
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• The Dynamics and Afterglow Radiation of Gamma-Ray Bursts. I. Constant Density Medium
• Very high efficiency photospheric emission in long duration gamma-ray bursts
• Jet Breaks in Short Gamma-Ray Bursts. II: The Collimated Afterglow of GRB 051221A
• Swift and Fermi observations of the early afterglow of the short Gamma-Ray Burst 090510
• Synchrotron Radiation as the Source of Gamma-Ray Burst Spectra
• The Reionization and Galaxy Evolution Probed by z=7 Lyman Alpha Emitters
• GRBs as Cosmological Probes - Cosmic Chemical Evolution
• Spectral and timing properties of a dissipative GRB photosphere
• Impulsive Acceleration of Strongly Magnetized Relativistic Flows
• Dynamics and Gravitational Wave Signature of Collapsar Formation
• 5-10 GeV Neutrinos from Gamma-Ray Burst Fireballs
• The Stellar Ages and Masses of Short GRB Host Galaxies: Investigating the Progenitor Delay Time Distribution and the Role of Mass and Star Formation in the Short GRB Rate
• Fermi Large Area Telescope Constraints on the Gamma-ray Opacity of the Universe
• On the sensitivity of the HAWC observatory to gamma-ray bursts
• A Photosphere-Internal Shock Model of Gamma-Ray Bursts: Case Studies of Fermi/LAT Bursts
• Gamma-ray bursts from magnetized collisionally-heated jets
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• The Connection Between Thermal and Non-Thermal Emission in Gamma-ray Bursts: General Considerations and GRB090902B as a Case Study
• Limits on Neutrino Emission from Gamma-Ray Bursts with the 40 String IceCube Detector
• Non-Thermal emission from the photospheres of Gamma-Ray Burst outflows. I: High frequency tails
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• Hadronic Models for the Extra Spectral Component in the short GRB 090510
• Emission Spectra from Internal Shocks in Gamma-Ray-Burst Sources
• On The External Shock Synchrotron Model for GRBs' GeV Emission
• Klein-Nishina effects on the high-energy afterglow emission of gamma-ray bursts
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• The Role of Stochastic Acceleration in the Prompt Emission of Gamma-Ray Bursts: Application to Hadronic Injection
• Gamma Ray Bursts as Electromagnetic Outflows
• Gravitational waves from the Papaloizou-Pringle instability in black hole-torus systems
• Prompt High-Energy Emission from Proton-Dominated Gamma-Ray Bursts
• Population III GRB Afterglows: Constraints on Stellar Masses and External Medium Densities
• The Synchrotron Spectrum of Fast Cooling Electrons Revisited
• GeV-TeV and X-ray flares from gamma-ray bursts
• Rarefaction acceleration of ultrarelativistic magnetized jets in gamma-ray burst sources
• Time-Resolved Spectroscopy of the 3 Brightest and Hardest Short Gamma-Ray Bursts Observed with the FGST Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor
• The theory of spectral evolution of the GRB prompt emission
• Detecting an association between Gamma Ray and Gravitational Wave Bursts
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• On the High Energy Emission of the Short GRB 090510
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• GRB Energetics in the Swift Era
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• Prospects for GRB Science with the Fermi Large Area Telescope
• Temporal Evolution of Pair Attenuation Signatures in Gamma-Ray Burst Spectra
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• A leptonic-hadronic model for the afterglow of gamma-ray burst 090510
• Implications of electron acceleration for high-energy radiation from gamma-ray bursts
• Dynamics of strongly magnetized ejecta in Gamma Ray Bursts
• Limits on the GeV Emission from Gamma-Ray Bursts
• The effects of sub-shells in highly magnetized relativistic flows
• Magnetic jet model for GRBs and the delayed arrival of >100 MeV photons
• High Energy Neutrino Emission from the Earliest Gamma-Ray Bursts

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• AD 775 Pulse of Cosmogenic Radionuclides Production as Imprint of a Galactic Gamma-Ray Burst
• Prompt emission polarimetry of Gamma Ray Bursts with ASTROSAT CZT-Imager
• Poynting flux dominated jets challenged by their photospheric emission
• Are Super-Luminous supernovae and Long GRBs produced exclusively in young dense star clusters?
• Milagro Limits and HAWC Sensitivity for the Rate-Density of Evaporating Primordial Black Holes
• The Impact of Plasma Instabilities on the Spectra of TeV Blazars
• Strong Lensing of Gamma Ray Bursts as a Probe of Compact Dark Matter
• 2900 square degree search for the optical counterpart of short gamma-ray burst GRB 180523B with the Zwicky Transient Facility
• Gamma-Ray Burst Pulse Shapes: Evidence for Embedded Shock Signatures?
• Photospheric Emission in Gamma-Ray Bursts
• Constraining the Local Burst Rate Density of Primordial Black Holes with HAWC
• Burst intensification by singularity emitting radiation in multi-stream flows
• New constraints on GRB jet geometry and relativistic shock physics
• The imprint of pulsar parameters on the morphology of Pulsar Wind Nebulae
• AstroSat CZT Imager observations of GRB 151006A: timing, spectroscopy, and polarisation study
• Data Compression for the Tomo-e Gozen with Low-rank Matrix Approximation
• Initial data for neutron star binaries with arbitrary spins
• AT 2018cow VLBI: No Long-Lived Relativistic Outflow
• Two-stream-like instability in dilute hot relativistic beams and astrophysical relativistic shocks
• Neutron-Proton-Converter Acceleration Mechanism at Subphotospheres of Relativistic Outflows
• Ultra-high Energy Cosmic Rays and Neutrinos from Gamma-Ray Bursts, Hypernovae and Galactic Shocks
• High Redshift Long Gamma-Ray Bursts Hubble Diagram as a Test of Basic Cosmological Relations
• Possible Emission of Cosmic $X$-- and $\gamma$--rays by Unstable Particles at Late Times
• Distinguishing short and long $Fermi$ gamma-ray bursts
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• Multi-Peaked Non-Thermal Light Curves from Magnetar-Powered Gamma-Ray Bursts
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• High energy photon polarimeter for astrophysics
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• Effects of Inner Alfvén Surface Location on Black Hole Energy Extraction in the Limit of a Force-Free Magnetosphere
• Picolensing as a Probe of Primordial Black Hole Dark Matter
• AGILE Observations of GRB 220101A: A "New Year's Burst" with an Exceptionally Huge Energy Release
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• Explosive and radio-selected Transients: Transient Astronomy with SKA and its Precursors
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• Hard X-ray Polarimetry -- An overview of the method, science drivers and recent findings
• Search for Tens of MeV Neutrinos associated with Gamma-Ray Bursts in Super-Kamiokande
• Searching for Black Holes in Space - the key role of X-ray observations
• Search for neutrinos from Gamma-Ray Bursts with ANTARES
• Intense ultraviolet perturbations on aquatic primary producers
• Gamma Ray Burst as Sources of Exotic Particles
• A Proposal to Localize Fermi GBM GRBs Through Coordinated Scanning of the GBM Error Circle via Optical Telescopes
• Major Change in Understanding of GRBs at TeV