The physics of gamma-ray bursts & relativistic jets

P Kumar, B Zhang - Physics Reports, 2015 - Elsevier
We provide a comprehensive review of major developments in our understanding of gamma-
ray bursts, with particular focus on the discoveries made within the last fifteen years when …

The Observer's Guide to the Gamma‐Ray Burst Supernova Connection

Z Cano, SQ Wang, ZG Dai, XF Wu - Advances in Astronomy, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
We present a detailed report of the connection between long‐duration gamma‐ray bursts
(GRBs) and their accompanying supernovae (SNe). The discussion presented here places …

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 …

The X-ray counterpart to the gravitational-wave event GW170817

E Troja, L Piro, H van Eerten, RT Wollaeger, M Im… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
A long-standing paradigm in astrophysics is that collisions—or mergers—of two neutron
stars form highly relativistic and collimated outflows (jets) that power γ-ray bursts of short …

Discovery and confirmation of the shortest gamma-ray burst from a collapsar

T Ahumada, LP Singer, S Anand, MW Coughlin… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are among the brightest and most energetic events in the
Universe. The duration and hardness distribution of GRBs has two clusters, now understood …

A decade of short-duration gamma-ray burst broadband afterglows: energetics, circumburst densities, and jet opening angles

W Fong, E Berger, R Margutti… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a comprehensive catalog and analysis of broadband afterglow observations for
103 short-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), comprised of all short GRBs from 2004 …

Short GRB host galaxies. II. A legacy sample of redshifts, stellar population properties, and implications for their neutron star merger origins

AE Nugent, WF Fong, Y Dong, J Leja… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the stellar population properties of 69 short gamma-ray burst (GRB) host
galaxies, representing the largest uniformly modeled sample to date. Using the Prospector …

Short-duration gamma-ray bursts

E Berger - Annual review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) display a bimodal duration distribution with a separation between
the short-and long-duration bursts at about 2 s. The progenitors of long GRBs have been …

Radiative transfer simulations of neutron star merger ejecta

M Tanaka, K Hotokezaka - The Astrophysical Journal, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Mergers of binary neutron stars (NSs) are among the most promising gravitational wave
(GW) sources. Next generation GW detectors are expected to detect signals from NS …