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GRINTA: a new Probe of the Dynamic Universe
Lorenzo Natalucci, Philippe Laurent, Marica Branchesi +48
Recent observations of the transient sky at all wavelengths are increasingly revealing the importance of the multi-messenger and multi-wavelength approach. The GRINTA (Gamma-Ray IN…
The ultra-fast afterglow of GRB 260226A
Biswajit Banerjee, Alessio Mei, Annarita Ierardi +13
Long-duration gamma-ray bursts are typically powered by relativistic jets launched after the core collapse of some rapidly rotating massive stars. Internal dissipation releases par…
Colour evolution in the radio afterglow of GRB 241025A
S. Giarratana, O. S. Salafia, L. Nava +10
We present the observing campaign of the afterglow of GRB241025A, a gamma-ray burst (GRB) whose prompt emission has been simultaneously detected by Swift, Einstein Probe, Fermi/GBM…
Early Optical Follow-up of Gamma-Ray Bursts: The Critical Role of Robotic Telescopes
Rahul Gupta, Judith Racusin, Gor Oganesyan +26
Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most luminous electromagnetic explosions in the Universe, and offer unique laboratories for studying relativistic jets, compact-object formation, pa…
Advanced Virgo Plus for O5 -- Design Report Overview
F. Acernese, A. Agapito, D. Agarwal +578
This document presents an overview of the design, implementation, and expected performance of the Advanced Virgo Plus (AdV+) upgrades in view of the O5 observing run. Following the…
Thermal Electrons in an Ultra-Relativistic Shock Shape the Optical Afterglow of GRB 250702F
Martin Jelínek, Annarita Ierardi, Filip Novotný +8
Observing early optical emission from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) contemporaneous with the MeV prompt emission phase remains rare, requiring rapid-response robotic facilities. The Ondř…
MeV absorption in gamma-ray bursts as a probe of their progenitor environments
Gor Oganesyan, Om Sharan Salafia, Emanuele Sobacchi +8
A small fraction of X-ray photons from -ray bursts (GRBs), after escaping the relativistic jet, are scattered by electrons in the circumburst medium. Subsequent photon-photon ab…
Early X-ray emission of short Gamma-Ray Bursts: insights into physics and multi-messenger prospects
Annarita Ierardi, Gor Oganesyan, Stefano Ascenzi +3
Early X-ray emission of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) traces the transition between the prompt emission and the afterglow radiation, and its rapid flux decline is often interpreted as th…
Broadband Modelling of GRB 230812B Afterglow: Implications for VHE -ray Detection with IACTs
Shraddha Mohnani, Biswajit Banerjee, Davide Miceli +13
A significant fraction of the energy from the -ray burst (GRB) jets, after powering the keV-MeV emission, forms an ultra-relativistic shock propagating into the circumburst medi…
Crystal Eye: all sky MeV monitor with high precision real-time localization
Roberto Aloisio, Uygar Atalay, Biswajit Banerjee +33
Crystal Eye is a space-based all-sky monitor optimized for the autonomous detection and localization of transients in the 10 keV to 30 MeV energy range, a region where extensive ob…
Ultra-long MeV transient from a relativistic jet: a tidal disruption event candidate
Gor Oganesyan, Elias Kammoun, Annarita Ierardi +11
On July 2, 2025, the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) onboard the Fermi Gamma-ray space telescope detected three short-duration MeV transients with overlapping sky locations. These ev…
The Science of the Einstein Telescope
Adrian Abac, Raul Abramo, Simone Albanesi +485
Einstein Telescope (ET) is the European project for a gravitational-wave (GW) observatory of third-generation. In this paper we present a comprehensive discussion of its science ob…
Gamma-ray burst prompt emission spectra at high energies
Samanta Macera, Biswajit Banerjee, Alessio Mei +3
Despite more than fifty years of gamma-ray burst (GRB) observations, several questions regarding the origin of the prompt emission, particularly at high energies, remain unresolved…
Model-independent cosmology with joint observations of gravitational waves and -ray bursts
Andrea Cozzumbo, Ulyana Dupletsa, Rodrigo Calderón +3
Multi-messenger (MM) observations of binary neutron star (BNS) mergers provide a promising approach to trace the distance-redshift relation, crucial for understanding the expansion…
Prospects for optical detections from binary neutron star mergers with the next-generation multi-messenger observatories
E. Loffredo, N. Hazra, U. Dupletsa +13
Next-generation gravitational wave (GW) observatories, such as the Einstein Telescope (ET) and Cosmic Explorer, will observe binary neutron star (BNS) mergers across cosmic history…
Gamma-ray burst spectral-luminosity correlations in the synchrotron scenario
Alessio Mei, Gor Oganesyan, Samanta Macera
For over two decades, gamma-ray burst (GRB) prompt emission spectra were modelled with smoothly-broken power laws (Band function), and a positive and tight correlation between the…
Camelidae on BOAT: observation of a second spectral component in GRB 221009A
Biswajit Banerjee, Samanta Macera, Alessio Ludovico De Santis +8
Observing and understanding the origin of the very-high-energy (VHE) spectral component in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) has been challenging because of the lack of sensitivity in MeV-Ge…
SAINT (Small Aperture Imaging Network Telescope) -- a wide-field telescope complex for detecting and studying optical transients at times from milliseconds to years
Grigory Beskin, Anton Biryukov, Alexey Gutaev +7
(Abridged) In this paper, we present a project of multi-channel wide-field optical sky monitoring system with high temporal resolution -- Small Aperture Imaging Network Telescope (…
A bright megaelectronvolt emission line in -ray burst GRB 221009A
Maria Edvige Ravasio, Om Sharan Salafia, Gor Oganesyan +13
The highly variable and energetic pulsed emission of a long gamma-ray burst (GRB) is thought to originate from local, rapid dissipation of kinetic or magnetic energy within an ultr…
Science with the Einstein Telescope: a comparison of different designs
Marica Branchesi, Michele Maggiore, David Alonso +73
The Einstein Telescope (ET), the European project for a third-generation gravitational-wave detector, has a reference configuration based on a triangular shape consisting of three…
Pre-merger alert to detect the very-high-energy prompt emission from binary neutron-star mergers: Einstein Telescope and Cherenkov Telescope Array synergy
Biswajit Banerjee, Gor Oganesyan, Marica Branchesi +8
The current generation of very-high-energy ray (VHE; E above 30 GeV) detectors (MAGIC and H.E.S.S.) have recently demonstrated the ability to detect the afterglow emission…
Combined X-ray and optical analysis to probe the origin of the plateau emission in -ray bursts afterglows
Samuele Ronchini, Giulia Stratta, Andrea Rossi +5
A large fraction of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) shows a plateau phase during the X-ray afterglow emission, whose physical origin is still debated. In this work we define a sample of 30…
Virgo Detector Characterization and Data Quality: tools
F. Acernese, M. Agathos, A. Ain +491
Detector characterization and data quality studies -- collectively referred to as {\em DetChar} activities in this article -- are paramount to the scientific exploitation of the jo…
Virgo Detector Characterization and Data Quality: results from the O3 run
F. Acernese, M. Agathos, A. Ain +491
The Advanced Virgo detector has contributed with its data to the rapid growth of the number of detected gravitational-wave (GW) signals in the past few years, alongside the two Adv…