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 …

Physics of Gamma‐Ray Bursts Prompt Emission

A Pe'Er - Advances in Astronomy, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, our understanding of gamma‐ray bursts (GRB) prompt emission has been
revolutionized, due to a combination of new instruments, new analysis methods, and novel …

An embedded X-ray source shines through the aspherical AT 2018cow: revealing the inner workings of the most luminous fast-evolving optical transients

R Margutti, BD Metzger, R Chornock… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the first extensive radio to γ-ray observations of a fast-rising blue optical
transient, AT 2018cow, over its first∼ 100 days. AT 2018cow rose over a few days to a peak …

Rapidly evolving and luminous transients from Pan-STARRS1

MR Drout, R Chornock, AM Soderberg… - The Astrophysical …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
In the past decade, several rapidly evolving transients have been discovered whose
timescales and luminosities are not easily explained by traditional supernovae (SNe) …

The GRB-supernova connection

J Hjorth, JS Bloom - Cambridge Astrophysics Series, 2012 - books.google.com
Well before the afterglow era, Paczynski (1986) noted that “cosmological” distances of GRBs
would imply that the energy release in gamma rays would be comparable to the energy …

A new method for estimating the bolometric properties of Ibc supernovae

Z Cano - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2013 - academic.oup.com
The bolometric properties (nickel mass, ejecta mass and kinetic energies) of 61 Ibc
supernovae (SNe), including 20 gamma-ray burst and X-ray flash (GRB/XRF), 19 Ib, 13 Ic …

GRB 120422A/SN 2012bz: Bridging the gap between low-and high-luminosity gamma-ray bursts

S Schulze, D Malesani, A Cucchiara, NR Tanvir… - Astronomy & …, 2014 - aanda.org
Context. At low redshift, a handful of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have been discovered with
luminosities that are substantially lower (L iso≲ 10 48.5 erg s-1) than the average of more …

The highly energetic expansion of SN 2010bh associated with GRB 100316D

F Bufano, E Pian, J Sollerman, S Benetti… - The Astrophysical …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the spectroscopic and photometric evolution of the nearby (z= 0.059)
spectroscopically confirmed Type Ic supernova, SN 2010bh, associated with the soft, long …

The X-shooter GRB afterglow legacy sample (XS-GRB)

J Selsing, D Malesani, P Goldoni, JPU Fynbo… - Astronomy & …, 2019 - aanda.org
In this work we present spectra of all γ-ray burst (GRB) afterglows that have been promptly
observed with the X-shooter spectrograph until 31/03/2017. In total, we have obtained …

Properties of gamma-ray bursts associated with supernovae and kilonovae

QM Li, ZB Zhang, XL Han, KJ Zhang… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We systematically compare the temporal and spectral properties of 53 supernova (SN)-
associated and 15 kilonova (KN)-associated gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). We find that the …