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astro-ph.HE2026

Fast optical spectroscopic observations of PSR J1023+0038 over one orbital period

M. M. Messa, M. C. Baglio, P. D'Avanzo +8

Transitional millisecond pulsars (tMSPs) are neutron-star binaries that switch between rotation-powered and accretion-powered states, providing a key link between low-mass X-ray bi…

astro-ph.HE2026

High-redshift GRB 140304A at z = 5.282 with flaring activity: A multi-wavelength study

Shashi. B. Pandey, Amit. K. Ror, A. J. Castro-Tirado +48

Context. This article presents a detailed multi-wavelength analysis of GRB 140304A at z = 5.282, having uncommon late-time flaring features. The aim is to study GRB 140304A and oth…

astro-ph.SR2026

Ellipsoidal modulation and multi-wavelength activity in the pre-cataclysmic binary RX J1553.0+4457

S. -Y. Wu, M. Gritsevich, Q. -H. Lao +39

RX J1553.0+4457 (TMTS J15530469+4457458) is a detached post-common-envelope binary containing a cool white dwarf and an active late-type companion. We present a multi-wavelength st…

astro-ph.SR2026

Stochastic Optical Variability and an rms-flux Relation in the Intermediate Polar EP240309a

S. -Y. Wu, Y. -D. Hu, I. Perez-Garcia +18

Magnetic cataclysmic variables provide a natural laboratory for studying how accretion interacts with compact-object magnetospheres and generates stochastic variability. We present…

astro-ph.HE2025

The most distant optically polarised GRB afterglow: GRB 240419A at z = 5.178

R. Brivio, S. Covino, M. Ferro +31

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are extremely bright phenomena powered by relativistic jets arising from explosive events at cosmological distances. The nature of the jet and the configura…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 2 cited

Discovery and Analysis of Afterglows from Poorly Localised GRBs with the Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO) All-sky Survey

Amit Kumar, B. P. Gompertz, B. Schneider +86

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), particularly those detected by wide-field instruments such as the Fermi/GBM, pose a challenge for optical follow-up due to their large initial localisation…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 3 cited

An extremely soft and weak fast X-ray transient associated with a luminous supernova

W. -X. Li, Z. -P. Zhu, X. -Z. Zou +101

Long gamma-ray bursts (LGRBs), including their subclasses of low-luminosity GRBs (LL-GRBs) and X-ray flashes (XRFs) characterized by low spectral peak energies, are known to be ass…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 1 cited

Extremely luminous optical afterglow of an energetic gamma-ray burst GRB 230204B

Rahul Gupta, Judith Racusin, Vladimir Lipunov +47

Robotic telescope networks play an important role in capturing early and bright optical afterglows, providing critical insights into the energetics and emission mechanisms of GRBs.…

astro-ph.HE2024

X-ray and gamma-ray timing of GRB 180720B, GRB 181222B, GRB 211211A and GRB 220910A observed with Fermi and ASIM

M. D. Caballero-Garcia, E. Gogus, J. Navarro-Gonzalez +20

We present a timing study of the gamma and X-ray observations and analysis of a sample of bright gamma-ray bursts (GRBs; i.e. GRB 180720B, GRB 181222B, GRB 211211A and GRB 220910A)…

astro-ph.HE2024

An Optical Gamma-Ray Burst Catalogue with Measured Redshift PART I: Data Release of 535 Gamma-Ray Bursts and Colour Evolution

M. G. Dainotti, B. De Simone, R. F. Mohideen Malik +49

We present the largest optical photometry compilation of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) with redshifts (). We include 64813 observations of 535 events (including upper limits) from 28…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 2 cited

Soft X-ray prompt emission from a high-redshift gamma-ray burst EP240315a

Y. Liu, H. Sun, D. Xu +191

Long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are believed to originate from core collapse of massive stars. High-redshift GRBs can probe the star formation and reionization history of the early un…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 19 cited

Insights into the broad-band emission of the TeV blazar Mrk 501 during the first X-ray polarization measurements

S. Abe, J. Abhir, V. A. Acciari +260

We present the first multi-wavelength study of Mrk 501 including very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray observations simultaneous to X-ray polarization measurements from the Imaging X-ra…

astro-ph.HE2023

Revealing characteristics of dark GRB 150309A: dust extinguished or high-z?

A. J. Castro-Tirado, Rahul Gupta, S. B. Pandey +28

Dark GRBs constitute a significant fraction of the GRB population. In this paper, we present the multiwavelength analysis of an intense two-episodic GRB 150309A observed early on t…

astro-ph.HE2023

The Burst Observer and Optical Transient Exploring System in the multi-messenger astronomy era

Y. -D. Hu, E. Fernández-García, M. D. Caballero-García +6

The Burst Observer and Optical Transient Exploring System (BOOTES) was first designed as an asset of autonomous telescopes that started to be deployed in 1998, taking 24 years to b…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 17 cited

Prompt emission and early optical afterglow of VHE detected GRB 201015A and GRB 201216C: onset of the external forward shock

Amit Kumar Ror, Rahul Gupta, Martin Jelínek +19

We present a detailed prompt emission and early optical afterglow analysis of the two very high energy (VHE) detected bursts GRB 201015A and GRB 201216C, and their comparison with…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 284 cited

A nearby long gamma-ray burst from a merger of compact objects

E. Troja, C. L. Fryer, B. O'Connor +21

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are flashes of high-energy radiation arising from energetic cosmic explosions. Bursts of long (>2 s) duration are produced by the core-collapse of massive s…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 13 cited

Panning for gold, but finding helium: discovery of the ultra-stripped supernova SN2019wxt from gravitational-wave follow-up observations

I. Agudo, L. Amati, T. An +96

We present the results from multi-wavelength observations of a transient discovered during the follow-up of S191213g, a gravitational wave (GW) event reported by the LIGO-Virgo Col…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 14 cited

Multi-wavelength study of the luminous GRB 210619B observed with Fermi and ASIM

M. D. Caballero-García, Rahul Gupta, S. B. Pandey +28

We report on detailed multi-wavelength observations and analysis of the very bright and long GRB 210619B, detected by the Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor (ASIM) installed on…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 6 cited

GRB 190919B: Rapid optical rise explained as a flaring activity

Martin Jelínek, Martin Topinka, Sergey Karpov +17

Following the detection of a long GRB 190919B by INTEGRAL (INTErnational Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory), we obtained an optical photometric sequence of its optical counterpart.…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 21 cited

Probing into emission mechanisms of GRB 190530A using time-resolved spectra and polarization studies: Synchrotron Origin?

Rahul Gupta, S. Gupta, T. Chattopadhyay +47

Multi-pulsed GRB 190530A, detected by the GBM and LAT onboard \fermi, is the sixth most fluent GBM burst detected so far. This paper presents the timing, spectral, and polarimetric…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 18 cited

Revealing nature of GRB 210205A, ZTF21aaeyldq (AT2021any), and follow-up observations with the 4K4K CCD Imager+3.6m DOT

Rahul Gupta, Amit Kumar, Shashi Bhushan Pandey +14

Optical follow-up observations of optical afterglows of gamma-ray bursts are crucial to probe the geometry of outflows, emission mechanisms, energetics, and burst environments. We…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 21 cited

GRB 140102A: Insight into Prompt Spectral Evolution and Early Optical Afterglow Emission

Rahul Gupta, S. R. Oates, S. B. Pandey +38

We present and perform a detailed analysis of multi-wavelength observations of \thisgrb, an optical bright GRB with an observed reverse shock (RS) signature. Observations of this G…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 105 cited

A Peculiarly Short-duration Gamma-Ray Burst from Massive Star Core Collapse

B. -B. Zhang, Z. -K. Liu, Z. -K. Peng +17

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have been phenomenologically classified into long and short populations based on the observed bimodal distribution of duration. Multi-wavelength and multi-m…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 226 cited

Observation of inverse Compton emission from a long -ray burst

V. A. Acciari, S. Ansoldi, L. A. Antonelli +301

Long-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) originate from ultra-relativistic jets launched from the collapsing cores of dying massive stars. They are characterised by an initial phase o…