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20172026
most citedThe Fast, Luminous Ultraviolet Transient AT2018cow: Extreme Supernova, or Disruption of a Star by an Intermediate-Mass Black Hole?

230 citations · 891 across the 43 of their papers we have counts for

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43 papers

astro-ph.HE2026

Failed jet breakout in the metal-poor broad-lined type Ic supernova 2026gzf

Antonio Martin-Carrillo, Christina C. Thöne, James K. Leung +103

A long-standing question in the death of massive stars is the role of relativistic jets. While many gamma-ray bursts and some fast X-ray transients seem to be associated with broad…

astro-ph.HE2026

GRB 260310A / SN 2026fgk: A Multi-Wavelength Study of a Nearby Underluminous Long GRB and SN with a Complex Afterglow

Ramandeep Gill, Rosa L. Becerra, Antonio de Ugarte Postigo +54

We present a comprehensive multi-wavelength study of GRB 260310A / SN 2026fgk, a nearby (), long-duration gamma-ray burst (GRB) with an exceptionally underluminous prompt…

astro-ph.HE2026

GRB 241030A: a bright afterglow challenging forward shock emission

J. -G. Ducoin, C. Pellouin, V. Aivazyan +97

Gamma-Ray Burst GRB 241030A (z = 1.411) exhibited a bright afterglow (similar to GRB 221009A), detected across gamma-ray, X-ray, UV, and optical bands, providing a probe of GRB aft…

astro-ph.HE2026★ 1 cited

Multi-epoch afterglow rebrightenings in GRB 250129A: Evidence for successive shock interactions

D. Akl, S. Antier, H. Koehn +105

Most long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) exhibit afterglows broadly consistent with external forward-shock emission, typically described by smooth broken power-law decays in the multiband…

astro-ph.HE2026

Minutes-long soft X-ray prompt emission from a compact object merger

An Li, Chen-Wei Wang, Niccolò Passaleva +75

Compact object mergers are multi-messenger sources and known progenitors of some gamma-ray bursts, bright flashes of high-energy radiation powered by a central engine, either an ac…

astro-ph.HE2025

AT2025ulz and S250818k: Deep X-ray and radio limits on off-axis afterglow emission and prospects for future discovery

Brendan O'Connor, Roberto Ricci, Eleonora Troja +15

The first joint electromagentic (EM) and gravitational wave (GW) detection, known as GW170817, marked a critical juncture in our collective understanding of compact object mergers.…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 3 cited

Evidence of Energy Injection in the Short and Distant GRB 250221A in a High Density Environment

Camila Angulo-Valdez, Rosa L. Becerra, Ramandeep Gill +29

We present the photometric and spectroscopic analysis of the short-duration GRB 250221A ( s), using a data set from the optical facilities COLIBRÍ, the Harlingt…

astro-ph.HE2025

AT2025ulz and S250818k: zooming in with the Hubble Space Telescope

Yu-Han Yang, Eleonora Troja, Marko Ristić +19

AT2025ulz is an optical/near-infrared transient discovered during follow-up of the candidate gravitational wave (GW) event S250818k. Its young age (1 d), rapid decline an…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 2 cited

Exploring the connection between compact object mergers and fast X-ray transients: The cases of LXT 240402A and EP250207b

R. L. Becerra, Yu-Han Yang, Eleonora Troja +29

The connection between compact object mergers and some extragalactic fast X-ray transients (FXRTs) has long been hypothesized, but never ultimately established. In this work, we in…

astro-ph.HE2025

Late-afterglow Emission from a Quasi-spherical Outflow in a stratified environment

Nissim Fraija, Boris Betancourt-Kamenetskaia, Antonio Galván +7

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are cosmic events occurring at large distances beyond our galaxy. They provide a unique opportunity to study electromagnetic patterns not seen elsewhere. Wh…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 2 cited

Radio observations point to a moderately relativistic outflow in the fast X-ray transient EP241021a

Muskan Yadav, Eleonora Troja, Roberto Ricci +7

Fast X-ray transients (FXRTs) are short-lived X-ray outbursts with diverse progenitor scenarios, including compact object mergers, stellar core-collapses and tidal disruption event…

astro-ph.HE2024

Synchrotron self-Compton in a radiative-adiabatic fireball scenario: Modelling the multiwavelength observations in some Fermi/LAT bursts

Nissim Fraija, P. Veres, B. Betancourt Kamenetskaia +4

Energetic GeV photons expected from the closest and the most energetic Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) provide an unique opportunity to study the very-high-energy emission as well as the p…

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

An evaluation of the BALROG and RoboBA algorithms for determining the position of Fermi/GBM GRBs

K. Océlotl. C. López, Alan M. Watson, William H. Lee +2

The Fermi/GBM instrument is a vital source of detections of gamma-ray bursts and has an increasingly important role to play in understanding gravitational-wave transients. In both…

astro-ph.HE2023

An Explanation of GRB Fermi-LAT Flares and High-Energy Photons in Stratified Afterglows

Nissim Fraija, Boris Betancourt Kamenetskaia, Antonio Galván-Gámez +6

The second {\itshape Fermi}/LAT gamma-ray burst (GRB) catalog (2FLGC) spanning the first decade of operations by the LAT collaboration was recently released. The closure relations…

astro-ph.HE2023

Unraveling Parameter Degeneracy in GRB Data Analysis

Keneth Garcia-Cifuentes, Rosa Leticia Becerra, Fabio De Colle +1

Gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglow light curves and spectra provide information about the density of the environment, the energy of the explosion, the properties of the particle accel…

astro-ph.HE2023

Machine-Learning Enhanced Photometric Analysis of the Extremely Bright GRB 210822A

Camila Angulo-Valdez, Rosa L. Becerra, Margarita Pereyra +16

We present analytical and numerical models of the bright long GRB 210822A at . The intrinsic extreme brightness exhibited in the optical, which is very similar to other br…

astro-ph.HE2023

Understanding the Nature of the Optical Emission in Gamma-Ray Bursts: Analysis from TAROT, COATLI, and RATIR Observations

R. L. Becerra, A. Klotz, J. L. Atteia +12

We collected the optical light curve data of 227 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) observed with the TAROT, COATLI, and RATIR telescopes. These consist of 133 detections and 94 upper limits.…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 18 cited

Deciphering the unusual stellar progenitor of GRB 210704A

R. L. Becerra, E. Troja, A. M. Watson +16

GRB~210704A is a burst of intermediate duration (~s) followed by a fading afterglow and an optical excess that peaked about 7 days after the explosion. Its propert…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 19 cited

Identification of Extended Emission Gamma-Ray-Bursts Candidates using Machine Learning

K. Garcia-Cifuentes, R. L. Becerra, F. De Colle +2

Gamma-Ray bursts (GRBs) have been traditionally classified based on their duration. The increasing number of extended emission (EE) GRBs, lasting typically more than 2 seconds but…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 10 cited

A structured jet explains the extreme GRB 221009A

B. O'Connor, E. Troja, G. Ryan +29

Long duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are powerful cosmic explosions, signaling the death of massive stars. Among them, GRB 221009A is by far the brightest burst ever observed. Due…

astro-ph.HE2022

Polarization From A Radially Stratified Off-Axis GRB Outflow

A. C. Caligula do E. S. Pedreira, N. Fraija, A. Galvan-Gamez +5

While the dominant radiation mechanism gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) remains a question of debate, synchrotron emission is one of the foremost candidates to describe the multi-wavelength…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 1 cited

Afterglow Polarization from Off-Axis GRB Jets

A. C. Caligula do E. S. Pedreira, N. Fraija, A. Galvan-Gamez +5

As we further our studies on Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), both on theoretical models and observational tools, more and more options begin to open for exploration of its physical proper…

astro-ph.HE2022

Exploring the Early Afterglow Polarization of GRB 190829A

A. C. Caligula do E. S. Pedreira, N. Fraija, S. Dichiara +5

The GRB 190829A has been widely studied due to its nature and the high energy emission presented. Due to the detection of a very-high-energy component by the High Energy Stereoscop…