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most citedAn Ordinary Short Gamma-Ray Burst with Extraordinary Implications: Fermi-GBM Detection of GRB 170817A

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astro-ph.HE2026

EP260119a: A High-Redshift Gamma-Ray Quiet Fast X-ray Transient Probing a Potentially Hidden Population of Relativistic Explosions

Camila Angulo-Valdez, Asuka Kuwata, Edilberto Aguilar-Ruiz +41

Gamma-ray quiet fast X-ray transients (FXTs) provide a new approach for studying relativistic explosions that evade traditional gamma-ray triggers. In this work, we present multi-w…

astro-ph.HE2026

17 Yr of Magnetar Bursts Observed with the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor

Matt Godwin, Özge Keskin, Mustafa Demirer +17

The Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) has been in operation for over 17 years, during which it has observed more than a thousand bursts from soft gamma repeaters (SGRs), also kno…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 3 cited

Constraints on the intergalactic magnetic field from Fermi-LAT observations of GRB 221009A

Lea Burmeister, Paolo Da Vela, Francesco Longo +5

A cosmological origin of the magnetic fields in large scale structures of the Universe would require a non-negligible magnetic field in cosmic voids, which, however, remains undete…

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★ 12 cited

GRB 250702B: Discovery of a Gamma-Ray Burst from a Black Hole Falling into a Star

Eliza Neights, Eric Burns, Chris L. Fryer +52

Gamma-ray bursts are the most luminous electromagnetic events in the universe. Their prompt gamma-ray emission has typical durations between a fraction of a second and several minu…

astro-ph.HE2025

Deciphering the Physical Origin of GRB 240825A: A Long GRB Lacking a Bright Supernova

Rahul Gupta, Judith L. Racusin, R. Sanchez-Ramirez +54

We present a comprehensive multiwavelength analysis of GRB 240825A, a bright gamma-ray burst (GRB) detected by Fermi and Swift, with a prompt duration ( 4 sec in…

astro-ph.HE2025

Fermi-GBM Observations of GRB 230307A: An Exceptionally Bright Long-Duration Gamma-ray Burst with an Associated Kilonova

S. Dalessi, P. Veres, C. M. Hui +22

On March 7th, 2023 the \textit{Fermi} Gamma-ray Burst Monitor observed the second highest fluence gamma-ray burst (GRB) ever, GRB~230307A. With a duration beyond 100~s, GRB~230307A…

astro-ph.HE2024

Fermi-GBM Team Analysis on The Ravasio Line

Eric Burns, Stephen Lesage, Adam Goldstein +20

The prompt spectra of gamma-ray bursts are known to follow broadband continuum behavior over decades in energy. GRB 221009A, given the moniker the brightest of all time (BOAT), is…

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★ 5 cited

Extragalactic Magnetar Giant Flare GRB 231115A: Insights from Fermi/GBM Observations

Aaron C. Trigg, Rachael Stewart, Alex Van Kooten +22

We present the detection and analysis of GRB 231115A, a candidate extragalactic magnetar giant flare (MGF) observed by Fermi/GBM and localized by INTEGRAL to the starburst galaxy M…

astro-ph.HE2024

Polarization Measurement of Gamma-ray Bursts with Fermi-GBM: The Case of GRB 180720B

P. Veres, W. Duvall, A. Goldstein +2

To achieve confident non-zero polarization measurements for gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) we need sensitive polarimeters and bright GRBs. Here we report on the polarimetric analysis of t…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 1 cited

Constraining possible -ray burst emission from GW230529 using Swift-BAT and Fermi-GBM

Samuele Ronchini, Suman Bala, Joshua Wood +35

GW230529 is the first compact binary coalescence detected by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration with at least one component mass confidently in the lower mass-gap, corresponding to…

astro-ph.IM2024

Future Perspectives for Gamma-ray Burst Detection from Space

Enrico Bozzo, Lorenzo Amati, Wayne Baumgartner +35

Since their first discovery in the late 1960s, Gamma-ray bursts have attracted an exponentially growing interest from the international community due to their central role in the m…

astro-ph.HE2023

Exploring Physically-Motivated Models to Fit Gamma-Ray Burst Spectra

Suraj Poolakkil, Robert Preece, Peter Veres

We explore fitting gamma-ray burst spectra with three physically-motivated models, and thus revisit the viability of synchrotron radiation as the primary source of GRB prompt emiss…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 5 cited

GRB 180128A: A Second Magnetar Giant Flare Candidate from the Sculptor Galaxy

Aaron C. Trigg, Eric Burns, Oliver J. Roberts +14

Magnetars are slowly rotating neutron stars that possess the strongest magnetic fields () known in the cosmos. They display a range of transient high-en…

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.HE2021★ 70 cited

Identification of a Local Sample of Gamma-Ray Bursts Consistent with a Magnetar Giant Flare Origin

E. Burns, D. Svinkin, K. Hurley +23

Cosmological Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are known to arise from distinct progenitor channels: short GRBs mostly from neutron star mergers and long GRBs from a rare type of core-collap…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 69 cited

Fermi and Swift Observations of GRB 190114C: Tracing the Evolution of High-Energy Emission from Prompt to Afterglow

M. Ajello, M. Arimoto, M. Axelsson +147

We report on the observations of gamma-ray burst (GRB) 190114C by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory. The early-time observations reveal mul…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 12 cited

Description of atypical bursts seen slightly off-axis

N. Fraija, F. De Colle, P. Veres +5

The detection of gravitational waves together with their electromagnetic counterpart, in the gamma-ray burst GRB 170817A, marked a new era of multi-messenger astronomy. Several the…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 20 cited

Signatures from a quasi-spherical outflow and an off-axis top-hat jet launched in a merger of compact objects: An analytical approach

N. Fraija, D. Lopez-Camara, A. C. Caligula do E. S. Pedreira +3

The production of both gravitational waves and short gamma-ray bursts (sGRBs) is widely associated with the merger of compact objects. Several studies have modelled the evolution o…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 28 cited

Reverse Shock Emission Revealed in Early Photometry in the Candidate Short GRB 180418A

Rosa L. Becerra, Simone Dichiara, Alan M. Watson +14

We present observations of the possible short GRB 180418A in -rays, X-rays, and in the optical. Early optical photometry with the TAROT and RATIR instruments show a bright peak…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 90 cited

Asteroid pairs: a complex picture

P. Pravec, P. Fatka, D. Vokrouhlický +45

We studied 93 asteroid pairs. We estimated times elapsed since separation of pair members that are between 7*10^3 and a few 10^6 yr. We derived the rotation periods for all the pri…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 38 cited

Analysis of Sub-threshold Short Gamma-ray Bursts in Fermi GBM Data

D. Kocevski, E. Burns, A. Goldstein +11

The Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) is currently the most prolific detector of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs). Recently the detection rate of short GRBs (SGRBs) has been dramatically…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 20 cited

The origin of the optical flashes: The case study of GRB 080319B and GRB 130427A

N. Fraija, P. Veres

Correlations between optical flashes and gamma-ray emissions in gamma-ray bursts have been searched in order to clarify the question whether these emissions occur at internal and/o…