Swift gamma-ray bursts
The Energetics and Environments of Swift Gamma Ray Bursts
... pre-Swift bursts occurred on time scales of several days (Zeh et ...that Swift would detect bursts with wider opening angles than previous missions due to the increased sensitivity of the ...
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The Role of Magnetic Fields in Gamma Ray Bursts from SNeII
... Until very recently one point of controversy about the nature of GRBs from SNeII was the extent in which magnetic fields rather than matter generated forces are involved in accelerating and collimating the jets of mate- ...
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Campisi, Maria Angela (2009): Gamma-ray Bursts and their Host Galaxies from Cosmological Simulation. Dissertation, LMU München: Fakultät für Physik
... 50 bursts per year, a fraction of which (those with position accuracy of < 20 arcmin) could be followed by Swift so to refine their position to a few arcsec (if detected by both XRT and ...instrument ...
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Future Prospects for High Energy Polarimetry of Gamma‐Ray Bursts
... the Swift BAT instrument [10] might make for a good polarimeter, but the packaging design of the detectors and the design of the signal processing electronics results in a loss of the necessary multiple scatter ...
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A New Population of Ultra-long Duration Gamma-ray Bursts
... Innovaci´on para la Com- petitividad, del Ministerio de Econom´ıa, Fomento y Turismo de Chile,” and Basal-CATA (PFB-06/2007). R.A.M.J.W. is sup- ported by the ERC through advanced investigator grant no. 247295. Partly ...
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Neutrinos from Gamma Ray Bursts in the IceCube and ARA Era
... Since the flux of neutrinos depends on the energy fraction of protons in the FB for a given burst energy, the flux or limit of the neutrino emission could constrain the hadronic component in the GRB jet and the hadronic ...
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Classical and Relativistic Models for Time Duration of Gamma Ray Bursts
... [18] Krimm, H.A., Barthelmy, S.D., Cummings, J.R., D’Avanzo, P., Gehrels, N., Lien, A.Y., Markwardt, C.B., Palmer, D.M., Sakamoto, T., Stamatikos, M. and Ukwatta, T.N. (2016) GRB 161214B: Swift-BAT Refined ...
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Constraining the progenitors of short gamma ray bursts
... The prime means by which an unambiguous association between SGRBs and com- pact object binaries may be determined is the observation of a simultaneous grav- itational wave signal (Phinney, 1991; Abadie et al., 2010). ...
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Gamma Ray Bursts Generated by Hyper Accreting Kerr Black Hole
... short gamma-ray bursts, which are very efficient at converting high photon energy into luminous radia- ...of gamma rays emission from rotating, strongly magnetized disk accreting BH formed in ...
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Search for gravitational waves associated with gamma-ray bursts detected by the interplanetary network
... The InterPlanetary Network (IPN) [31] is a group of satellites orbiting the Earth, Mars, and Mercury and operating, among other equipment on board, γ -ray detec- tors. The IPN, in its current configuration, acts ...
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Exploring optically dark and dim gamma-ray bursts : instrumentation, observation and analysis
... of Swift and as we, along with the GRB community, have improved our ground-based efforts, no longer are the majority of bursts consid- ered ...chase bursts after only minutes or ...
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Search for long-lived gravitational-wave transients coincident with long gamma-ray bursts
... Long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have been linked to extreme core-collapse supernovae from massive ...the Swift experiment, we perform a search for unmodeled long-lived GW ...
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Merger of Compact Binaries in the Context of Gravitational Waves and Short Lived Gamma Ray Bursts
... from gamma rays to radio waves. The observed short gamma-ray bursts pro- duced in these merging events are extremely faint as compared to the ones rec- orded by the Swift satellite, and ...
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The environments of the most energetic Gamma Ray bursts
... of bursts found to be consistent with a homogeneous medium ...26 Swift LGRBs (and one SGRB), finding just 6 that showed a wind-like evolution at late ...the Swift satellite up until 2013, finding ...
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Gamma ray bursts monitoring with the ARGO-YBJ experiment in scaler mode
... In this paper we have reported a study concerning the search for GeV photons from 94 GRBs carried out by the ARGO- YBJ air shower detector operated in scaler mode. In the search for GeV gamma rays in coincidence ...
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Astrophysics: Macroobject Shell Model
... The Lorimer Burst (FRB 010724) was discovered in 2007 in archived data taken in 2001. Just after the publication of the e-print with the first discovery, it was proposed that Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) could be ...
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Burst Astrophysics
... The duration of ultra-long gamma-ray burst 111209A is longer than 7 hours, implying this event has a different kind of progenitor than normal long GRBs. According to the authors of paper [2]: The host ...
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Accretion Models of Gamma‐Ray Bursts
... of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) involve accretion onto a compact object, usually a black hole, at a mass accretion rate of order a fraction of a solar mass per ...
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On the Gamma Ray Bursts Origin
... copious gamma production during shock interaction with ambient interstellar ...intergalactic gamma-rays to the proton current on spin shock-waves ensure precise agreement between generated proton currents ...
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Evolution of Neutron Stars and Observational Constraints
... Abstract. The structure and evolution of neutron stars is discussed with a view towards constraining the prop- erties of high density matter through observations. The structure of neutron stars is illuminated through the ...
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