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 …

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 …

A kilonova following a long-duration gamma-ray burst at 350 Mpc

JC Rastinejad, BP Gompertz, AJ Levan, W Fong… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are divided into two populations,; long GRBs that derive from the
core collapse of massive stars (for example, ref.) and short GRBs that form in the merger of …

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 …

A repeating fast radio burst associated with a persistent radio source

CH Niu, K Aggarwal, D Li, X Zhang, S Chatterjee… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The dispersive sweep of fast radio bursts (FRBs) has been used to probe the ionized baryon
content of the intergalactic medium, which is assumed to dominate the total extragalactic …

Heavy-element production in a compact object merger observed by JWST

AJ Levan, BP Gompertz, OS Salafia, M Bulla, E Burns… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
The mergers of binary compact objects such as neutron stars and black holes are of central
interest to several areas of astrophysics, including as the progenitors of gamma-ray bursts …

A repeating fast radio burst source in a globular cluster

F Kirsten, B Marcote, K Nimmo, JWT Hessels… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are flashes of unknown physical origin. The majority of FRBs have
been seen only once, although some are known to generate multiple flashes,. Many models …

Host galaxy properties and offset distributions of fast radio bursts: implications for their progenitors

KE Heintz, JX Prochaska, S Simha… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We present observations and detailed characterizations of five new host galaxies of fast
radio bursts (FRBs) discovered with the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder …

A gravitational-wave standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant

DLT40 Collaboration Haislip JB 241 Kouprianov VV … - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Abstract On 17 August 2017, the Advanced LIGO and Virgo detectors observed the
gravitational-wave event GW170817—a strong signal from the merger of a binary neutron …

A direct localization of a fast radio burst and its host

S Chatterjee, CJ Law, RS Wharton, S Burke-Spolaor… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Fast radio bursts, are astronomical radio flashes of unknown physical nature with durations
of milliseconds. Their dispersive arrival times suggest an extragalactic origin and imply radio …