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POLAR-2, the next generation of GRB polarization detector
Nicolas Produit, Merlin Kole, Xin Wu +9
The POLAR-2 Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) Polarimetry mission is a follow-up to the successful POLAR mission. POLAR collected six months of data in 2016-2017 on board the Tiangong-2 Chines…
Energy-dependent polarization of Gamma-Ray Bursts' prompt emission with the POLAR and POLAR-2 instruments
Nicolas De Angelis, J. Michael Burgess, Franck Cadoux +10
Gamma-Ray Bursts are among the most powerful events in the Universe. Despite half a century of observations of these transient sources, many open questions remain about their natur…
ronswanson: Building Table Models for 3ML
J. Michael Burgess
`ronswanson` provides a simple-to-use framework for building so-called table or template models for `astromodels`the modeling package for multi-messenger astrophysical data-analysi…
A helium-burning white dwarf binary as a supersoft X-ray source
J. Greiner, C. Maitra, F. Haberl +12
Type Ia supernovae are cosmic distance indicators, and the main source of iron in the Universe, but their formation paths are still debated. Several dozen supersoft X-ray sources,…
Misidentification of Short GRBs as Magnetars in Nearby Galaxies
E. C. Schösser, J. M. Burgess, J. Greiner
Context. Recent observations of GRB 200415A, a short and very bright pulse of -rays, have been claimed to be an extragalactic magnetar giant flare (MGF) whose proposed host gala…
Automatic detection of long-duration transients in Fermi-GBM data
F. Kunzweiler, B. Biltzinger, J. Greiner +1
In the era of time-domain, multi-messenger astronomy, the detection of transient events on the high-energy electromagnetic sky has become more important than ever. Previous attempt…
A proposed network of Gamma-ray Burst detectors on the Global Navigation Satellite System Galileo G2
J. Greiner, U. Hugentobler, J. M. Burgess +3
The accurate localization of gamma-ray bursts remains a crucial task. While historically, improved localization have led to the discovery of afterglow emission and the realization…
Advancing the Landscape of Multimessenger Science in the Next Decade
Kristi Engel, Tiffany Lewis, Marco Stein Muzio +91
The last decade has brought about a profound transformation in multimessenger science. Ten years ago, facilities had been built or were under construction that would eventually dis…
The Future of Gamma-Ray Experiments in the MeV-EeV Range
Kristi Engel, Jordan Goodman, Petra Huentemeyer +95
Gamma-rays, the most energetic photons, carry information from the far reaches of extragalactic space with minimal interaction or loss of information. They bring messages about par…
Improving INTEGRAL/SPI data analysis of GRBs
Björn Biltzinger, Jochen Greiner, J. Michael Burgess +1
INTEGRAL/SPI is a coded mask instrument observing since 2002 in the keV to MeV energy range, which covers the peak of the spectrum of most Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs). Since its…
Assessing coincident neutrino detections using population models
F. Capel, J. M. Burgess, D. J. Mortlock +1
Several tentative associations between high-energy neutrinos and astrophysical sources have been recently reported, but a conclusive identification of these potential neutrino emit…
Development and science perspectives of the POLAR-2 instrument: a large scale GRB polarimeter
N. De Angelis, J. M. Burgess, F. Cadoux +14
Despite several decades of multi-wavelength and multi-messenger spectral observations, Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) remain one of the big mysteries of modern astrophysics. Polarization…
Gamma-Ray Polarization Results of the POLAR Mission and Future Prospects
M. Kole, N. de Angelis, J. M. Burgess +14
Despite over 50 years of Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) observations many open questions remain about their nature and the environments in which the emission takes place. Polarization measu…
nazgul: A statistical approach to gamma-ray burst localization. Triangulation via non-stationary time-series models
J. Michael Burgess, Ewan Cameron, Dmitry Svinkin +1
Context. Gamma-ray bursts can be located via arrival time signal triangulation using gamma-ray detectors in orbit throughout the solar system. The classical approach based on cross…
The POLAR Gamma-Ray Burst Polarization Catalog
Merlin Kole, Nicolas De Angelis, Francesco Berlato +18
Despite over 50 years of research, many open questions remain about the origin and nature of GRBs. Polarization measurements of the prompt emission of these extreme phenomena have…
A Physical Background Model for the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor
Björn Biltzinger, Felix Kunzweiler, Jochen Greiner +2
We present the first physically motivated background model for the Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor (GBM) onboard the Fermi satellite. Such a physically motivated background model has the p…
Improved Fermi-GBM GRB localizations using BALROG
F. Berlato, J. Greiner, J. Michael Burgess
The localizations of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) detected with the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) onboard the Fermi satellite are known to be affected by significant systematic errors o…
Time-Resolved GRB Polarization with POLAR and GBM
J. Michael Burgess, M. Kole, F. Berlato +5
Simultaneous -ray measurements of gamma-ray burst (GRB) spectra and polarization offer a unique way to determine the underlying emission mechanism(s) in these objects as well as…
Gamma-ray bursts as cool synchrotron sources
J. Michael Burgess, Damien Bégué, Ana Bacelj +3
Gamma-ray bursts are the most energetic electromagnetic sources in the Universe. Their prompt gamma-ray radiation corresponds to an energy release of 1E42-1E47J. Fifty years after…
Evidence for diffuse molecular gas and dust in the hearts of gamma-ray burst host galaxies
J. Bolmer, C. Ledoux, P. Wiseman +17
Here we built up a sample of 22 GRBs at redshifts observed with X-shooter to determine the abundances of hydrogen, metals, dust, and molecular species. This allows us to st…
Optimizing spectroscopic follow-up strategies for supernova photometric classification with active learning
E. E. O. Ishida, R. Beck, S. Gonzalez-Gaitan +10
We report a framework for spectroscopic follow-up design for optimizing supernova photometric classification. The strategy accounts for the unavoidable mismatch between spectroscop…
The peculiar physics of GRB 170817A and their implications for short GRBs
D. Bégué, J. Michael Burgess, J. Greiner
The unexpected nearby gamma-ray burst GRB 170817A associated with the LIGO binary neutron star merger event GW170817 presents a challenge to the current understanding of the emissi…
Viewing short Gamma-ray Bursts from a different angle
J. Michael Burgess, Jochen Greiner, Damien Begue +3
The recent coincident detection of gravitational waves (GW) from a binary neutron star merger with aLIGO/Virgo and short-lived gamma-ray emission with Fermi/GBM (called GW 170817)…
The X-ray counterpart to the gravitational wave event GW 170817
E. Troja, L. Piro, H. van Eerten +31
A long-standing paradigm in astrophysics is that collisions- or mergers- of two neutron stars (NSs) form highly relativistic and collimated outflows (jets) powering gamma-ray burst…