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 …

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 …

Fast-transient searches in real time with ZTFReST: identification of three optically discovered gamma-ray burst afterglows and new constraints on the kilonova rate

I Andreoni, MW Coughlin, EC Kool… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The most common way to discover extragalactic fast transients, which fade within a few
nights in the optical, is via follow-up of gamma-ray burst and gravitational-wave triggers …

Kilonova luminosity function constraints based on Zwicky transient facility searches for 13 neutron star merger triggers during O3

MM Kasliwal, S Anand, T Ahumada… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a systematic search for optical counterparts to 13 gravitational wave (GW)
triggers involving at least one neutron star during LIGO/Virgo's third observing run (O3). We …

Growth on s190425z: searching thousands of square degrees to identify an optical or infrared counterpart to a binary neutron star merger with the zwicky transient …

MW Coughlin, T Ahumada, S Anand… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The third observing run by LVC has brought the discovery of many compact binary
coalescences. Following the detection of the first binary neutron star merger in this run …

The Konus-wind catalog of gamma-ray bursts with known redshifts. I. Bursts detected in the triggered mode

A Tsvetkova, D Frederiks, S Golenetskii… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
In this catalog, we present the results of a systematic study of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) with
reliable redshift estimates detected in the triggered mode of the Konus-Wind (KW) …

Cosmological fast optical transients with the Zwicky Transient Facility: a search for dirty fireballs

AYQ Ho, DA Perley, Y Yao, D Svinkin… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Dirty fireballs are a hypothesized class of relativistic massive-star explosions with an initial
Lorentz factor Γ init below the Γ init∼ 100 required to produce a long-duration gamma-ray …

Examining two-dimensional luminosity–time correlations for gamma-ray burst radio afterglows with VLA and ALMA

D Levine, M Dainotti, KJ Zvonarek… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglow emission can be observed from sub-TeV to radio
wavelengths, though only 6.6% of observed GRBs present radio afterglows. We examine …

Transient-optimized real-bogus classification with Bayesian convolutional neural networks–sifting the GOTO candidate stream

TL Killestein, J Lyman, D Steeghs… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Large-scale sky surveys have played a transformative role in our understanding of
astrophysical transients, only made possible by increasingly powerful machine learning …

Accounting for selection bias and redshift evolution in GRB radio afterglow data

M Dainotti, D Levine, N Fraija, P Chandra - Galaxies, 2021 - mdpi.com
Gamma-ray Bursts (GRBs) are highly energetic events that can be observed at extremely
high redshift. However, inherent bias in GRB data due to selection effects and redshift …