Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Swift Era

By N. Gehrels, E. Ramirez-Ruiz, D. Fox. 2009

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With its rapid-response capability and multiwavelength complement of instruments, the Swift satellite has transformed our physical understanding of γ-ray bursts (GRBs). Providing high-quality observations of hundreds of bursts, and facilitating a wide range of follow-up observations within seconds of each event, Swift has revealed an unforeseen richness in observed burst properties, shed light on the nature of short-duration bursts, and helped realize the promise of GRBs as probes of the processes and environments of star formation out to the earliest cosmic epochs. These advances have opened new perspectives on the nature and properties of burst central engines, interactions with the burst environment from microparsec to gigaparsec scales, and the possibilities for nonphotonic signatures. Our understanding of these extreme cosmic sources has thus advanced substantially; yet, more than 40 years after their discovery, GRBs continue to present major challenges on both observational and theoretical fronts.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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In Astronomy and Astrophysics

1. E. Berger
2. Bing Zhang
3. E. Nakar
4. B. Metzger
5. Pawan Kumar
6. D. Frail
7. T. Piran
8. A. Gal-yam

In Nuclear and High Energy Physics

1. E. Berger
2. Bing Zhang
3. E. Nakar
4. D. Frail
5. A. Gal-yam
6. L. Cowie
7. D. Holz
8. Shrinivas R. Kulkarni

Citations in the corpus

• A New Population of High-Redshift Short-Duration Gamma-Ray Bursts (2006, methodology): “This includes the proposed association of GRB050813 with a galaxy cluster at z ∼ 1.8 (Berger 2006), a photometric redshift for GRB060121 of z ∼ 1.7 or ∼ 4.6 based on the afterglow optical/near-IR spectral energy distribution (Levan et al. 2006; de Ugarte Postigo et al. 2006), and limits on galaxy…”
• Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Swift Era (2007, background): “However, in some cases, clear chromatic features have been revealed (e.g., Fan & Piran 2006a; Panaitescu et al. 2006b; Huang et al. 2007), which rejects the interpretation at least for those cases.”