Short GRB 160821B: a reverse shock, a refreshed shock, and a well-sampled kilonova

GP Lamb, NR Tanvir, AJ Levan… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We report our identification of the optical afterglow and host galaxy of the short-duration
gamma-ray burst sGRB 160821B. The spectroscopic redshift of the host is z= 0.162, making …

The Ep,iEiso correlation: type I gamma-ray bursts and the new classification method

PY Minaev, AS Pozanenko - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
We present the most extensive sample of 45 type I (short) and 275 type II (long) gamma-ray
bursts (GRBs) with known redshift to investigate the correlation between the rest-frame peak …

Gamma-ray bursts, supernovae Ia, and baryon acoustic oscillations: A binned cosmological analysis

MG Dainotti, G Sarracino… - Publications of the …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Cosmological probes at any redshift are necessary to reconstruct consistently the cosmic
history. Studying properly the tension on the Hubble constant, H 0, obtained by supernovae …

GRB 211211A: A Neutron Star–White Dwarf Merger?

SQ Zhong, L Li, ZG Dai - The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The gamma-ray burst GRB 211211A and its associated kilonova-like emission were
reported recently. A significant difference between this association event and GRB …

Effects of fallback accretion on protomagnetar outflows in gamma-ray bursts and superluminous supernovae

BD Metzger, P Beniamini… - The Astrophysical Journal, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Rapidly spinning, strongly magnetized protoneutron stars (" millisecond protomagnetars")
are candidate central engines of long-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), superluminous …

A Search for Neutron Star–Black Hole Binary Mergers in the Short Gamma-Ray Burst Population

BP Gompertz, AJ Levan, NR Tanvir - The Astrophysical Journal, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs) are now known to be the product of the merger of two
compact objects. However, two possible formation channels exist: neutron star–neutron star …

Cosmological evolution of the formation rate of short gamma-ray bursts with and without extended emission

MG Dainotti, V Petrosian… - The Astrophysical Journal …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Originating from neutron star–neutron star or neutron star–black hole mergers, short gamma-
ray bursts (SGRBs) are the first electromagnetic emitters associated with gravitational waves …

Peculiar Prompt Emission and Afterglow in the HESS-detected GRB 190829A

V Chand, A Banerjee, R Gupta, PS Pal… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the results of a detailed investigation of the prompt and afterglow emission in the
High Energy Stereoscopic System (HESS)-detected GRB 190829A. Swift and Fermi …

Late-time accretion in neutron star mergers: Implications for short gamma-ray bursts and kilonovae

W Lu, E Quataert - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We study the long-term () evolution of the accretion disc after a neutron star (NS)–NS or NS–
black hole merger, taking into account the radioactive heating by r-process nuclei formed in …

Anisotropic energy injection from magnetar central engines in short GRBs

Y Wang, B Zhang, Z Zhu - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT A long-lived magnetar, potentially originating from a binary neutron star system,
has been proposed to explain the extended emission observed in certain short-duration …