A long-duration gamma-ray burst with a peculiar origin

J Yang, S Ai, BB Zhang, B Zhang, ZK Liu, XI Wang… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
It is generally believed that long-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are associated with
massive star core collapse, whereas short-duration GRBs are associated with mergers of …

Grb 221009a: the boat

E Burns, D Svinkin, E Fenimore, DA Kann… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
GRB 221009A has been referred to as the brightest of all time (BOAT). We investigate the
veracity of this statement by comparing it with a half century of prompt gamma-ray burst …

Multi-messenger astrophysics of black holes and neutron stars as probed by ground-based gravitational wave detectors: from present to future

A Corsi, L Barsotti, E Berti, M Evans, I Gupta… - Frontiers in Astronomy …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
The ground-based gravitational wave (GW) detectors LIGO and Virgo have enabled the birth
of multi-messenger GW astronomy via the detection of GWs from merging stellar-mass black …

A unified picture of short and long gamma-ray bursts from compact binary mergers

O Gottlieb, BD Metzger, E Quataert, D Issa… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The recent detections of the∼ 10 s long γ-ray bursts (GRBs) 211211A and 230307A
followed by softer temporally extended emission (EE) and kilonovae point to a new GRB …

Short GRB host galaxies. I. Photometric and spectroscopic catalogs, host associations, and galactocentric offsets

W Fong, AE Nugent, Y Dong, E Berger… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a comprehensive optical and near-infrared census of the fields of 90 short
gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) discovered in 2005–2021, constituting all short GRBs for which …

Updated observing scenarios and multimessenger implications for the international gravitational-wave networks O4 and O5

RW Kiendrebeogo, AM Farah, EM Foley… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
An advanced LIGO and Virgo's third observing run brought another binary neutron star
merger (BNS) and the first neutron-star black hole mergers. While no confirmed kilonovae …

A data science platform to enable time-domain astronomy

MW Coughlin, JS Bloom, G Nir, S Antier… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
SkyPortal is an open-source software package designed to discover interesting transients
efficiently, manage follow-up, perform characterization, and visualize the results. By …

Science with a small two-band UV-photometry mission I: Mission description and follow-up observations of stellar transients

N Werner, J Řípa, C Thöne, F Münz, P Kurfürst… - Space Science …, 2024 - Springer
This is the first in a collection of three papers introducing the science with an ultra-violet (UV)
space telescope on an approximately 130 kg small satellite with a moderately fast re …

The first JWST spectrum of a GRB afterglow: no bright supernova in observations of the brightest GRB of all time, GRB 221009A

AJ Levan, GP Lamb, B Schneider… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract We present James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and Hubble Space Telescope
(HST) observations of the afterglow of GRB 221009A, the brightest gamma-ray burst (GRB) …

GRANDMA and HXMT Observations of GRB 221009A: The Standard Luminosity Afterglow of a Hyperluminous Gamma-Ray Burst—In Gedenken an David Alexander …

DA Kann, S Agayeva, V Aivazyan… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Object GRB 221009A is the brightest gamma-ray burst (GRB) detected in more than 50 yr of
study. In this paper, we present observations in the X-ray and optical domains obtained by …