The afterglows of Swift-era gamma-ray bursts. I. Comparing pre-Swift and Swift-era long/soft (type II) GRB optical afterglows

DA Kann, S Klose, B Zhang, D Malesani… - The Astrophysical …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
We have gathered optical photometry data from the literature on a large sample of Swift-era
gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglows including GRBs up to 2009 September, for a total of 76 …

Swift/UVOT: 18 Years of Long GRB Discoveries and Advances

S Oates - Universe, 2023 - mdpi.com
The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory (Swift) has been in operation for 18 years. The Ultra-
Violet/Optical Telescope (UVOT) onboard Swift was designed to capture the earliest …

Gamma-ray bursts in the Swift era

B Zhang - Chinese Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
Since the successful launch of NASA's dedicated gamma-ray burst (GRB) mission, Swift, the
study of cosmological GRBs has entered a new era. Here I review the rapid observational …

GRB radiative efficiencies derived from the Swift data: GRBs versus XRFs, long versus short

B Zhang, E Liang, KL Page, D Grupe… - The Astrophysical …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
We systematically analyze the prompt emission and the early afterglow data of a sample of
31 GRBs detected by Swift before 2005 September and estimate the GRB radiative …

REM observations of GRB 060418 and GRB 060607A: the onset of the afterglow and the initial fireball Lorentz factor determination

E Molinari, SD Vergani, D Malesani, S Covino… - Astronomy & …, 2007 - aanda.org
Context. Gamma-ray burst (GRB) emission is believed to originate in highly relativistic
fireballs. Aims. Currently, only lower limits were securely set to the initial fireball Lorentz …

The 2175 Å dust feature in a gamma-ray burst afterglow at redshift 2.45

T Krühler, AK Yoldaş, J Greiner… - The Astrophysical …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
We present optical and near-infrared photometry of the afterglow of the long gamma-ray
burst (GRB) 070802 at redshift 2.45 obtained with the ESO/MPI 2.2 m telescope equipped …

High-energy cosmic-ray nuclei from high-and low-luminosity gamma-ray bursts and implications for multimessenger astronomy

K Murase, K Ioka, S Nagataki, T Nakamura - Physical Review D—Particles …, 2008 - APS
Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are one of the candidates of ultrahigh-energy (≳ 10 18.5 eV)
cosmic-ray (UHECR) sources. We investigate high-energy cosmic-ray acceleration including …

The first swift ultraviolet/optical telescope grb afterglow catalog

PWA Roming, TS Koch, SR Oates… - The Astrophysical …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the first Swift Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope (UVOT) gamma-ray burst (GRB)
afterglow catalog. The catalog contains data from over 64,000 independent UVOT image …

High energy neutrino early afterglows from gamma-ray bursts revisited

K Murase - Physical Review D—Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and …, 2007 - APS
The high energy neutrino emission from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) has been expected in
various scenarios. In this paper, we study the neutrino emission from early afterglows of …

Correlations of prompt and afterglow emission in Swift long and short gamma-ray bursts

N Gehrels, SD Barthelmy, DN Burrows… - The Astrophysical …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
Correlation studies of prompt and afterglow emission from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs)
between different spectral bands have been difficult to do in the past because few bursts had …