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1. Search for Gravitational-wave Signals Associated with Gamma-Ray Bursts during the Second Observing Run of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo

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B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, S. Abraham, F. Acernese, K. Ackley, C. Adams, R. X. Adhikari, V. B. Adya, C. Affeldt, M. Agathos, K. Agatsuma, N. Aggarwal, O. D. Aguiar, L. Aiello, A. Ain, P. Ajith, G. Allen, A. Allocca, M. A. Aloy, P. A. Altin, A. Amato, S. Anand, A. Ananyeva, S. B. Anderson, W. G. Anderson, S. V. Angelova, S. Antier, S. Appert, K. Arai, M. C. Araya, J. S. Areeda, M. Arène, N. Arnaud, S. M. Aronson, S. Ascenzi, G. Ashton, S. M. Aston, P. Astone, F. Aubin, P. Aufmuth, K. AultONeal, C. Austin, V. Avendano, A. Avila-Alvarez, S. Babak, P. Bacon, F. Badaracco, M. K. M. Bader, S. Bae, J. Baird, P. T. Baker, F. Baldaccini, G. Ballardin, S. W. Ballmer, A. Bals, S. Banagiri, J. C. Barayoga, C. Barbieri, S. E. Barclay, B. C. Barish, D. Barker, K. Barkett, S. Barnum, F. Barone, B. Barr, L. Barsotti, M. Barsuglia, D. Barta, J. Bartlett, I. Bartos, R. Bassiri, A. Basti, M. Bawaj, J. C. Bayley, M. Bazzan, B. Bécsy, M. Bejger, I. Belahcene, A. S. Bell, D. Beniwal, M. G. Benjamin, B. K. Berger, G. Bergmann, S. Bernuzzi, C. P. L. Berry, D. Bersanetti, A. Bertolini, J. Betzwieser, R. Bhandare, J. Bidler, E. Biggs, I. A. Bilenko, S. A. Bilgili, G. Billingsley, I. A. Birney, O. Birnholtz, S. Biscans, M. Bischi, S. Biscoveanu, A. Bisht, M. Bitossi, M. A. Bizouard, J. K. Blackburn, J. Blackman, C. D. Blair, D. G. Blair, R. M. Blair, S. Bloemen, F. Bobba, N. Bode, M. Boer, Y. Boetzel, G. Bogaert, F. Bondu, R. Bonnand, P. Booker, B. A. Boom, R. Bork, V. Boschi, S. Bose, V. Bossilkov, J. Bosveld, Y. Bouffanais, A. Bozzi, C. Bradaschia, P. R. Brady, A. Bramley, M. Branchesi, J. E. Brau, M. Breschi, T. Briant, J. H. Briggs, F. Brighenti, A. Brillet, M. Brinkmann, P. Brockill, A. F. Brooks, J. Brooks, D. D. Brown, S. Brunett, A. Buikema, T. Bulik, H. J. Bulten, A. Buonanno, D. Buskulic, C. Buy, R. L. Byer, M. Cabero, L. Cadonati, G. Cagnoli, C. Cahillane, J. Calderón Bustillo, T. A. Callister, E. Calloni, J. B. Camp, W. A. Campbell, M. Canepa, K. C. Cannon, H. Cao, J. Cao, G. Carapella, F. Carbognani, S. Caride, M. F. Carney, G. Carullo, J. Casanueva Diaz, C. Casentini, S. Caudill, M. Cavaglià, F. Cavalier, R. Cavalieri, G. Cella, P. Cerdá-Durán, E. Cesarini, O. Chaibi, K. Chakravarti, S. J. Chamberlin, M. Chan, S. Chao, P. Charlton, E. A. Chase, E. Chassande-Mottin, D. Chatterjee, M. Chaturvedi, B. D. Cheeseboro, H. Y. Chen, X. Chen, Y. Chen, H.-P. Cheng, C. K. Cheong, H. Y. Chia, F. Chiadini, A. Chincarini, A. Chiummo, G. Cho, H. S. Cho, M. Cho, N. Christensen, Q. Chu, S. Chua, K. W. Chung, S. Chung, G. Ciani, M. Cieślar, A. A. Ciobanu, R. Ciolfi, F. Cipriano, A. Cirone, F. Clara, J. A. Clark, P. Clearwater, F. Cleva, E. Coccia, P.-F. Cohadon, D. Cohen, M. Colleoni, C. G. Collette, C. Collins, M. Colpi, L. R. Cominsky, M. Constancio Jr., L. Conti, S. J. Cooper, P. Corban, T. R. Corbitt, I. Cordero-Carrión, S. Corezzi, K. R. Corley, N. Cornish, D. Corre, A. Corsi, S. Cortese, C. A. Costa, R. Cotesta, M. W. Coughlin, S. B. Coughlin, J.-P. Coulon, S. T. Countryman, P. Couvares, P. B. Covas, E. E. Cowan, D. M. Coward, M. J. Cowart, D. C. Coyne, R. Coyne, J. D. E. Creighton, T. D. Creighton, J. Cripe, M. Croquette, S. G. Crowder, T. J. Cullen, A. Cumming, L. Cunningham, E. Cuoco, T. Dal Canton, G. Dálya, B. D’Angelo, S. L. Danilishin, S. D’Antonio, K. Danzmann, A. Dasgupta, C. F. Da Silva Costa, L. E. H. Datrier, V. Dattilo, I. Dave, M. Davier, D. Davis, E. J. Daw, D. DeBra, M. Deenadayalan, J. Degallaix, M. De Laurentis, S. Deléglise, W. Del Pozzo, L. M. DeMarchi, N. Demos, T. Dent, R. De Pietri, R. De Rosa, C. De Rossi, R. DeSalvo, O. de Varona, S. Dhurandhar, M. C. Díaz, T. Dietrich, L. Di Fiore, C. DiFronzo, C. Di Giorgio, F. Di Giovanni, M. Di Giovanni, T. Di Girolamo, A. Di Lieto, B. Ding, S. Di Pace, I. Di Palma, F. Di Renzo, A. K. Divakarla, A. Dmitriev, Z. Doctor, F. Donovan, K. L. Dooley, S. Doravari, I. Dorrington, T. P. Downes, M. Drago, J. C. Driggers, Z. Du, J.-G. Ducoin, P. Dupej, O. Durante, S. E. Dwyer, P. J. Easter, G. Eddolls, T. B. Edo, A. Effler, P. Ehrens, J. Eichholz, S. S. Eikenberry, M. Eisenmann, R. A. Eisenstein, L. Errico, R. C. Essick, H. Estelles, D. Estevez, Z. B. Etienne, T. Etzel, M. Evans, T. M. Evans, V. Fafone, S. Fairhurst, X. Fan, S. Farinon, B. Farr, W. M. Farr, E. J. Fauchon-Jones, M. Favata, M. Fays, M. Fazio, C. Fee, J. Feicht, M. M. Fejer, F. Feng, A. Fernandez-Galiana, I. Ferrante, E. C. Ferreira, T. A. Ferreira, F. Fidecaro, I. Fiori, D. Fiorucci, M. Fishbach, R. P. Fisher, J. M. Fishner, R. Fittipaldi, M. Fitz-Axen, V. Fiumara, R. Flaminio, M. Fletcher, E. Floden, E. Flynn, H. Fong, J. A. Font, P. W. F. Forsyth, J.-D. Fournier, Francisco Hernandez Vivanco, S. Frasca, F. Frasconi, Z. Frei, A. Freise, R. Frey, V. Frey, P. Fritschel, V. V. Frolov, G. Fronzè, P. Fulda, M. Fyffe, H. A. Gabbard, B. U. Gadre, S. M. Gaebel, J. R. Gair, L. Gammaitoni, S. G. Gaonkar, C. García-Quirós, F. Garufi, B. Gateley, S. Gaudio, G. Gaur, V. Gayathri, G. Gemme, E. Genin, A. Gennai, D. George, J. George, L. Gergely, S. Ghonge, Abhirup Ghosh, Archisman Ghosh, S. Ghosh, B. Giacomazzo, J. A. Giaime, K. D. Giardina, D. R. Gibson, K. Gill, L. Glover, J. Gniesmer, P. Godwin, E. Goetz, R. Goetz, B. Goncharov, G. González, J. M. Gonzalez Castro, A. Gopakumar, S. E. Gossan, M. Gosselin, R. Gouaty, B. Grace, A. Grado, M. Granata, A. Grant, S. Gras, P. Grassia, C. Gray, R. Gray, G. Greco, A. C. Green, R. Green, E. M. Gretarsson, A. Grimaldi, S. J. Grimm, P. Groot, H. Grote, S. Grunewald, P. Gruning, G. M. Guidi, H. K. Gulati, Y. Guo, A. Gupta, Anchal Gupta, P. Gupta, E. K. Gustafson, R. Gustafson, L. Haegel, O. Halim, B. R. Hall, E. D. Hall, E. Z. Hamilton, G. Hammond, M. Haney, M. M. Hanke, J. Hanks, C. Hanna, M. D. Hannam, O. A. Hannuksela, T. J. Hansen, J. Hanson, T. Harder, T. Hardwick, K. Haris, J. Harms, G. M. Harry, I. W. Harry, R. K. Hasskew, C. J. Haster, K. Haughian, F. J. Hayes, J. Healy, A. Heidmann, M. C. Heintze, H. Heitmann, F. Hellman, P. Hello, G. Hemming, M. Hendry, I. S. Heng, J. Hennig, M. Heurs, S. Hild, T. Hinderer, S. Hochheim, D. Hofman, A. M. Holgado, N. A. Holland, K. Holt, D. E. Holz, P. Hopkins, C. Horst, J. Hough, E. J. Howell, C. G. Hoy, Y. Huang, M. T. Hübner, E. A. Huerta, D. Huet, B. Hughey, V. Hui, S. Husa, S. H. Huttner, T. Huynh-Dinh, B. Idzkowski, A. Iess, H. Inchauspe, C. Ingram, R. Inta, G. Intini, B. Irwin, H. N. Isa, J.-M. Isac, M. Isi, B. R. Iyer, T. Jacqmin, S. J. Jadhav, K. Jani, N. N. Janthalur, P. Jaranowski, D. Jariwala, A. C. Jenkins, J. Jiang, D. S. Johnson, A. W. Jones, D. I. Jones, J. D. Jones, R. Jones, R. J. G. Jonker, L. Ju, J. Junker, C. V. Kalaghatgi, V. Kalogera, B. Kamai, S. Kandhasamy, G. Kang, J. B. Kanner, S. J. Kapadia, S. Karki, R. Kashyap, M. Kasprzack, S. Katsanevas, E. Katsavounidis, W. Katzman, S. Kaufer, K. Kawabe, N. V. Keerthana, F. Kéfélian, D. Keitel, R. Kennedy, J. S. Key, F. Y. Khalili, I. Khan, S. Khan, E. A. Khazanov, N. Khetan, M. Khursheed, N. Kijbunchoo, Chunglee Kim, J. C. Kim, K. Kim, W. Kim, W. S. Kim, Y.-M. Kim, C. Kimball, P. J. King, M. Kinley-Hanlon, R. Kirchhoff, J. S. Kissel, L. Kleybolte, J. H. Klika, S. Klimenko, T. D. Knowles, P. Koch, S. M. Koehlenbeck, G. Koekoek, S. Koley, V. Kondrashov, A. Kontos, N. Koper, M. Korobko, W. Z. Korth, M. Kovalam, D. B. Kozak, C. Krämer, V. Kringel, N. Krishnendu, A. Królak, N. Krupinski, G. Kuehn, A. Kumar, P. Kumar, Rahul Kumar, Rakesh Kumar, L. Kuo, A. Kutynia, S. Kwang, B. D. Lackey, D. Laghi, K. H. Lai, T. L. Lam, M. Landry, B. B. Lane, R. N. Lang, J. Lange, B. Lantz, R. K. Lanza, A. Lartaux-Vollard, P. D. Lasky, M. Laxen, A. Lazzarini, C. Lazzaro, P. Leaci, S. Leavey, Y. K. Lecoeuche, C. H. Lee, H. K. Lee, H. M. Lee, H. W. Lee, J. Lee, K. Lee, J. Lehmann, A. K. Lenon, N. Leroy, N. Letendre, Y. Levin, A. Li, J. Li, K. J. L. Li, T. G. F. Li, X. Li, F. Lin, F. Linde, S. D. Linker, T. B. Littenberg, J. Liu, X. Liu, M. Llorens-Monteagudo, R. K. L. Lo, L. T. London, A. 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Mendell, R. A. Mercer, L. Mereni, K. Merfeld, E. L. Merilh, M. Merzougui, S. Meshkov, C. Messenger, C. Messick, F. Messina, R. Metzdorff, P. M. Meyers, F. Meylahn, A. Miani, H. Miao, C. Michel, H. Middleton, L. Milano, A. L. Miller, M. Millhouse, J. C. Mills, M. C. Milovich-Goff, O. Minazzoli, Y. Minenkov, A. Mishkin, C. Mishra, T. Mistry, S. Mitra, V. P. Mitrofanov, G. Mitselmakher, R. Mittleman, G. Mo, D. Moffa, K. Mogushi, S. R. P. Mohapatra, M. Molina-Ruiz, M. Mondin, M. Montani, C. J. Moore, D. Moraru, F. Morawski, G. Moreno, S. Morisaki, B. Mours, C. M. Mow-Lowry, F. Muciaccia, Arunava Mukherjee, D. Mukherjee, S. Mukherjee, Subroto Mukherjee, N. Mukund, A. Mullavey, J. Munch, E. A. Muñiz, M. Muratore, P. G. Murray, I. Nardecchia, L. Naticchioni, R. K. Nayak, B. F. Neil, J. Neilson, G. Nelemans, T. J. N. Nelson, M. Nery, A. Neunzert, L. Nevin, K. Y. Ng, S. Ng, C. Nguyen, P. Nguyen, D. Nichols, S. A. Nichols, S. Nissanke, F. Nocera, C. North, L. K. Nuttall, M. Obergaulinger, J. 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Veitch, P. J. Veitch, K. Venkateswara, G. Venugopalan, D. Verkindt, F. Vetrano, A. Viceré, A. D. Viets, S. Vinciguerra, D. J. Vine, J.-Y. Vinet, S. Vitale, T. Vo, H. Vocca, C. Vorvick, S. P. Vyatchanin, A. R. Wade, L. E. Wade, M. Wade, R. Walet, M. Walker, L. Wallace, S. Walsh, H. Wang, J. Z. Wang, S. Wang, W. H. Wang, Y. F. Wang, R. L. Ward, Z. A. Warden, J. Warner, M. Was, J. Watchi, B. Weaver, L.-W. Wei, M. Weinert, A. J. Weinstein, R. Weiss, F. Wellmann, L. Wen, E. K. Wessel, P. Weßels, J. W. Westhouse, K. Wette, J. T. Whelan, B. F. Whiting, C. Whittle, D. M. Wilken, D. Williams, A. R. Williamson, J. L. Willis, B. Willke, W. Winkler, C. C. Wipf, H. Wittel, G. Woan, J. Woehler, J. K. Wofford, J. L. Wright, D. S. Wu, D. M. Wysocki, S. Xiao, R. Xu, H. Yamamoto, C. C. Yancey, L. Yang, Y. Yang, Z. Yang, M. J. Yap, M. Yazback, D. W. Yeeles, Hang Yu, Haocun Yu, S. H. R. Yuen, A. K. Zadrożny, A. Zadrożny, M. Zanolin, T. Zelenova, J.-P. Zendri, M. Zevin, J. Zhang, L. Zhang, T. Zhang, C. Zhao, G. Zhao, M. Zhou, Z. Zhou, X. J. Zhu, M. E. Zucker, J. Zweizig, The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration, R. L. Aptekar, W. V. Boynton, D. D. Frederiks, S. V. Golenetskii, D. V. Golovin, K. Hurley, A. V. Kozlova, M. L. Litvak, I. G. Mitrofanov, A. B. Sanin, D. S. Svinkin, IPN Collaboration, Francesco Carotenuto, and Badri Krishnan

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Gravitational wave astronomy, Gravitational wave sources, LIGO, Gravitational waves, Gamma-ray bursts, Burst astrophysics, Astrophysics, QB460-466
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We present the results of targeted searches for gravitational-wave transients associated with gamma-ray bursts during the second observing run of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo, which took place from 2016 November to 2017 August. We have analyzed 98 gamma-ray bursts using an unmodeled search method that searches for generic transient gravitational waves and 42 with a modeled search method that targets compact-binary mergers as progenitors of short gamma-ray bursts. Both methods clearly detect the previously reported binary merger signal GW170817, with p -values of

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2019
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2. Search for Gravitational Waves Associated with Gamma-Ray Bursts during the First Advanced LIGO Observing Run and Implications for the Origin of GRB 150906B

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B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, M. R. Abernathy, F. Acernese, K. Ackley, C. Adams, T. Adams, P. Addesso, R. X. Adhikari, V. B. Adya, C. Affeldt, M. Agathos, K. Agatsuma, N. Aggarwal, O. D. Aguiar, L. Aiello, A. Ain, P. Ajith, B. Allen, A. Allocca, P. A. Altin, A. Ananyeva, S. B. Anderson, W. G. Anderson, S. Appert, K. Arai, M. C. Araya, J. S. Areeda, N. Arnaud, K. G. Arun, S. Ascenzi, G. Ashton, M. Ast, S. M. Aston, P. Astone, P. Aufmuth, C. Aulbert, A. Avila-Alvarez, S. Babak, P. Bacon, M. K. M. Bader, P. T. Baker, F. Baldaccini, G. Ballardin, S. W. Ballmer, J. C. Barayoga, S. E. Barclay, B. C. Barish, D. Barker, F. Barone, B. Barr, L. Barsotti, M. Barsuglia, D. Barta, J. Bartlett, I. Bartos, R. Bassiri, A. Basti, J. C. Batch, C. Baune, V. Bavigadda, M. Bazzan, B. Bécsy, C. Beer, M. Bejger, I. Belahcene, M. Belgin, A. S. Bell, B. K. Berger, G. Bergmann, C. P. L. Berry, D. Bersanetti, A. Bertolini, J. Betzwieser, S. Bhagwat, R. Bhandare, I. A. Bilenko, G. Billingsley, C. R. Billman, J. Birch, I. A. Birney, O. Birnholtz, S. Biscans, A. Bisht, M. Bitossi, C. Biwer, M. A. Bizouard, J. K. Blackburn, J. Blackman, C. D. Blair, D. G. Blair, R. M. Blair, S. Bloemen, O. Bock, M. Boer, G. Bogaert, A. Bohe, F. Bondu, R. Bonnand, B. A. Boom, R. Bork, V. Boschi, S. Bose, Y. Bouffanais, A. Bozzi, C. Bradaschia, P. R. Brady, V. B. Braginsky, M. Branchesi, J. E. Brau, T. Briant, A. Brillet, M. Brinkmann, V. Brisson, P. Brockill, J. E. Broida, A. F. Brooks, D. A. Brown, D. D. Brown, N. M. Brown, S. Brunett, C. C. Buchanan, A. Buikema, T. Bulik, H. J. Bulten, A. Buonanno, D. Buskulic, C. Buy, R. L. Byer, M. Cabero, L. Cadonati, G. Cagnoli, C. Cahillane, J. Calderón Bustillo, T. A. Callister, E. Calloni, J. B. Camp, M. Canepa, K. C. Cannon, H. Cao, J. Cao, C. D. Capano, E. Capocasa, F. Carbognani, S. Caride, J. Casanueva Diaz, C. Casentini, S. Caudill, M. Cavaglià, F. Cavalier, R. Cavalieri, G. Cella, C. B. Cepeda, L. Cerboni Baiardi, G. Cerretani, E. Cesarini, S. J. Chamberlin, M. Chan, S. Chao, P. Charlton, E. Chassande-Mottin, B. D. Cheeseboro, H. Y. Chen, Y. Chen, H.-P. Cheng, A. Chincarini, A. Chiummo, T. Chmiel, H. S. Cho, M. Cho, J. H. Chow, N. Christensen, Q. Chu, A. J. K. Chua, S. Chua, S. Chung, G. Ciani, F. Clara, J. A. Clark, F. Cleva, C. Cocchieri, E. Coccia, P.-F. Cohadon, A. Colla, C. G. Collette, L. Cominsky, M. Constancio Jr., L. Conti, S. J. Cooper, T. R. Corbitt, N. Cornish, A. Corsi, S. Cortese, C. A. Costa, M. W. Coughlin, S. B. Coughlin, J.-P. Coulon, S. T. Countryman, P. Couvares, P. B. Covas, E. E. Cowan, D. M. Coward, M. J. Cowart, D. C. Coyne, R. Coyne, J. D. E. Creighton, T. D. Creighton, J. Cripe, S. G. Crowder, T. J. Cullen, A. Cumming, L. Cunningham, E. Cuoco, T. Dal Canton, G. Dálya, S. L. Danilishin, S. D’Antonio, K. Danzmann, A. Dasgupta, C. F. Da Silva Costa, V. Dattilo, I. Dave, M. Davier, G. S. Davies, D. Davis, E. J. Daw, B. Day, R. Day, S. De, D. DeBra, G. Debreczeni, J. Degallaix, M. De Laurentis, S. Deléglise, W. Del Pozzo, T. Denker, T. Dent, V. Dergachev, R. De Rosa, R. T. DeRosa, R. DeSalvo, J. Devenson, R. C. Devine, S. Dhurandhar, M. C. Díaz, L. Di Fiore, M. Di Giovanni, T. Di Girolamo, A. Di Lieto, S. Di Pace, I. Di Palma, A. Di Virgilio, Z. Doctor, V. Dolique, F. Donovan, K. L. Dooley, S. Doravari, I. Dorrington, R. Douglas, M. Dovale Álvarez, T. P. Downes, M. Drago, R. W. P. Drever, J. C. Driggers, Z. Du, M. Ducrot, S. E. Dwyer, T. B. Edo, M. C. Edwards, A. Effler, H.-B. Eggenstein, P. Ehrens, J. Eichholz, S. S. Eikenberry, R. A. Eisenstein, R. C. Essick, Z. Etienne, T. Etzel, M. Evans, T. M. Evans, R. Everett, M. Factourovich, V. Fafone, H. Fair, S. Fairhurst, X. Fan, S. Farinon, B. Farr, W. M. Farr, E. J. Fauchon-Jones, M. Favata, M. Fays, H. Fehrmann, M. M. Fejer, A. Fernández Galiana, I. Ferrante, E. C. Ferreira, F. Ferrini, F. Fidecaro, I. Fiori, D. Fiorucci, R. P. Fisher, R. Flaminio, M. Fletcher, H. Fong, S. S. Forsyth, J.-D. Fournier, S. Frasca, F. Frasconi, Z. Frei, A. Freise, R. Frey, V. Frey, E. M. Fries, P. Fritschel, V. V. Frolov, P. Fulda, M. Fyffe, H. Gabbard, B. U. Gadre, S. M. Gaebel, J. R. Gair, L. Gammaitoni, S. G. Gaonkar, F. Garufi, G. Gaur, V. Gayathri, N. Gehrels, G. Gemme, E. Genin, A. Gennai, J. George, L. Gergely, V. Germain, S. Ghonge, Abhirup Ghosh, A. Ghosh, Archisman Ghosh, S. Ghosh, J. A. Giaime, K. D. Giardina, A. Giazotto, K. Gill, A. Glaefke, E. Goetz, R. Goetz, L. Gondan, G. González, J. M. Gonzalez Castro, A. Gopakumar, M. L. Gorodetsky, S. E. Gossan, M. Gosselin, R. Gouaty, A. Grado, C. Graef, M. Granata, A. Grant, S. Gras, C. Gray, G. Greco, A. C. Green, P. Groot, H. Grote, S. Grunewald, G. M. Guidi, X. Guo, A. Gupta, M. K. Gupta, K. E. Gushwa, E. K. Gustafson, R. Gustafson, J. J. Hacker, B. R. Hall, E. D. Hall, G. Hammond, M. Haney, M. M. Hanke, J. Hanks, C. Hanna, J. Hanson, T. Hardwick, J. Harms, G. M. Harry, I. W. Harry, M. J. Hart, M. T. Hartman, C.-J. Haster, K. Haughian, J. Healy, A. Heidmann, M. C. Heintze, H. Heitmann, P. Hello, G. Hemming, M. Hendry, I. S. Heng, J. Hennig, J. Henry, A. W. Heptonstall, M. Heurs, S. Hild, D. Hoak, D. Hofman, K. Holt, D. E. Holz, P. Hopkins, J. Hough, E. A. Houston, E. J. Howell, Y. M. Hu, E. A. Huerta, D. Huet, B. Hughey, S. Husa, S. H. Huttner, T. Huynh-Dinh, N. Indik, D. R. Ingram, R. Inta, H. N. Isa, J.-M. Isac, M. Isi, T. Isogai, B. R. Iyer, K. Izumi, T. Jacqmin, K. Jani, P. Jaranowski, S. Jawahar, F. Jiménez-Forteza, W. W. Johnson, D. I. Jones, R. Jones, R. J. G. Jonker, L. Ju, J. Junker, C. V. Kalaghatgi, V. Kalogera, S. Kandhasamy, G. Kang, J. B. Kanner, S. Karki, K. S. Karvinen, M. Kasprzack, E. Katsavounidis, W. Katzman, S. Kaufer, T. Kaur, K. Kawabe, F. Kéfélian, D. Keitel, D. B. Kelley, R. Kennedy, J. S. Key, F. Y. Khalili, I. Khan, S. Khan, Z. Khan, E. A. Khazanov, N. Kijbunchoo, Chunglee Kim, J. C. Kim, Whansun Kim, W. Kim, Y.-M. Kim, S. J. Kimbrell, E. J. King, P. J. King, R. Kirchhoff, J. S. Kissel, B. Klein, L. Kleybolte, S. Klimenko, P. Koch, S. M. Koehlenbeck, S. Koley, V. Kondrashov, A. Kontos, M. Korobko, W. Z. Korth, I. Kowalska, D. B. Kozak, C. Krämer, V. Kringel, B. Krishnan, A. Królak, G. Kuehn, P. Kumar, R. Kumar, L. Kuo, A. Kutynia, B. D. Lackey, M. Landry, R. N. Lang, J. Lange, B. Lantz, R. K. Lanza, A. Lartaux-Vollard, P. D. Lasky, M. Laxen, A. Lazzarini, C. Lazzaro, P. Leaci, S. Leavey, E. O. Lebigot, C. H. Lee, H. K. Lee, H. M. Lee, K. Lee, J. Lehmann, A. Lenon, M. Leonardi, J. R. Leong, N. Leroy, N. Letendre, Y. Levin, T. G. F. Li, A. Libson, T. B. Littenberg, J. Liu, N. A. Lockerbie, A. L. Lombardi, L. T. London, J. E. Lord, M. Lorenzini, V. Loriette, M. Lormand, G. Losurdo, J. D. Lough, G. Lovelace, H. Lück, A. P. Lundgren, R. Lynch, Y. Ma, S. Macfoy, B. Machenschalk, M. MacInnis, D. M. Macleod, F. Magaña-Sandoval, E. Majorana, I. Maksimovic, V. Malvezzi, N. Man, V. Mandic, V. Mangano, G. L. Mansell, M. Manske, M. Mantovani, F. Marchesoni, F. Marion, S. Márka, Z. Márka, A. S. Markosyan, E. Maros, F. Martelli, L. Martellini, I. W. Martin, D. V. Martynov, K. Mason, A. Masserot, T. J. Massinger, M. Masso-Reid, S. Mastrogiovanni, F. Matichard, L. Matone, N. Mavalvala, N. Mazumder, R. McCarthy, D. E. McClelland, S. McCormick, C. McGrath, S. C. McGuire, G. McIntyre, J. McIver, D. J. McManus, T. McRae, S. T. McWilliams, D. Meacher, G. D. Meadors, J. Meidam, A. Melatos, G. Mendell, D. Mendoza-Gandara, R. A. Mercer, E. L. Merilh, M. Merzougui, S. Meshkov, C. Messenger, C. Messick, R. Metzdorff, P. M. Meyers, F. Mezzani, H. Miao, C. Michel, H. Middleton, E. E. Mikhailov, L. Milano, A. L. Miller, A. Miller, B. B. Miller, J. Miller, M. Millhouse, Y. Minenkov, J. Ming, S. Mirshekari, C. Mishra, S. Mitra, V. P. Mitrofanov, G. Mitselmakher, R. Mittleman, A. Moggi, M. Mohan, S. R. P. Mohapatra, M. Montani, B. C. Moore, C. J. Moore, D. Moraru, G. Moreno, S. R. Morriss, B. Mours, C. M. Mow-Lowry, G. Mueller, A. W. Muir, Arunava Mukherjee, D. Mukherjee, S. Mukherjee, N. Mukund, A. Mullavey, J. Munch, E. A. M. Muniz, P. G. Murray, A. Mytidis, K. Napier, I. Nardecchia, L. Naticchioni, G. Nelemans, T. J. N. Nelson, M. Neri, M. Nery, A. Neunzert, J. M. Newport, G. Newton, T. T. Nguyen, A. B. Nielsen, S. Nissanke, A. Nitz, A. Noack, F. Nocera, D. Nolting, M. E. N. Normandin, L. K. Nuttall, J. Oberling, E. Ochsner, E. Oelker, G. H. Ogin, J. J. Oh, S. H. Oh, F. Ohme, M. Oliver, P. Oppermann, Richard J. Oram, B. O’Reilly, R. O’Shaughnessy, D. J. Ottaway, H. Overmier, B. J. Owen, A. E. Pace, J. Page, A. Pai, S. A. Pai, J. R. Palamos, O. Palashov, C. Palomba, A. Pal-Singh, H. Pan, C. Pankow, F. Pannarale, B. C. Pant, F. Paoletti, A. Paoli, M. A. Papa, H. R. Paris, W. Parker, D. Pascucci, A. Pasqualetti, R. Passaquieti, D. Passuello, B. Patricelli, B. L. Pearlstone, M. Pedraza, R. Pedurand, L. Pekowsky, A. Pele, S. Penn, C. J. Perez, A. Perreca, L. M. Perri, H. P. Pfeiffer, M. Phelps, O. J. Piccinni, M. Pichot, F. Piergiovanni, V. Pierro, G. Pillant, L. Pinard, I. M. Pinto, M. Pitkin, M. Poe, R. Poggiani, P. Popolizio, A. Post, J. Powell, J. Prasad, J. W. W. Pratt, V. Predoi, T. Prestegard, M. Prijatelj, M. Principe, S. Privitera, G. A. Prodi, L. G. Prokhorov, O. Puncken, M. Punturo, P. Puppo, M. Pürrer, H. Qi, J. Qin, S. Qiu, V. Quetschke, E. A. Quintero, R. Quitzow-James, F. J. Raab, D. S. Rabeling, H. Radkins, P. Raffai, S. Raja, C. Rajan, M. Rakhmanov, P. Rapagnani, V. Raymond, M. Razzano, V. Re, J. Read, T. Regimbau, L. Rei, S. Reid, D. H. Reitze, H. Rew, S. D. Reyes, E. Rhoades, F. Ricci, K. Riles, M. Rizzo, N. A. Robertson, R. Robie, F. Robinet, A. Rocchi, L. Rolland, J. G. Rollins, V. J. Roma, R. Romano, J. H. Romie, D. Rosińska, S. Rowan, A. Rüdiger, P. Ruggi, K. Ryan, S. Sachdev, T. Sadecki, L. Sadeghian, M. Sakellariadou, L. Salconi, M. Saleem, F. Salemi, A. Samajdar, L. Sammut, L. M. Sampson, E. J. Sanchez, V. Sandberg, J. R. Sanders, B. Sassolas, B. S. Sathyaprakash, P. R. Saulson, O. Sauter, R. L. Savage, A. Sawadsky, P. Schale, J. Scheuer, E. Schmidt, J. Schmidt, P. Schmidt, R. Schnabel, R. M. S. Schofield, A. Schönbeck, E. Schreiber, D. Schuette, S. G. Schwalbe, J. Scott, S. M. Scott, D. Sellers, A. S. Sengupta, D. Sentenac, V. Sequino, A. Sergeev, Y. Setyawati, D. A. Shaddock, T. J. Shaffer, M. S. Shahriar, B. Shapiro, P. Shawhan, A. Sheperd, D. H. Shoemaker, D. M. Shoemaker, K. Siellez, X. Siemens, M. Sieniawska, D. Sigg, A. D. Silva, A. Singer, L. P. Singer, A. Singh, R. Singh, A. Singhal, A. M. Sintes, B. J. J. Slagmolen, B. Smith, J. R. Smith, R. J. E. Smith, E. J. Son, B. Sorazu, F. Sorrentino, T. Souradeep, A. P. Spencer, A. K. Srivastava, A. Staley, M. Steinke, J. Steinlechner, S. Steinlechner, D. Steinmeyer, B. C. Stephens, S. P. Stevenson, R. Stone, K. A. Strain, N. Straniero, G. Stratta, S. E. Strigin, R. Sturani, A. L. Stuver, T. Z. Summerscales, L. Sun, S. Sunil, P. J. Sutton, B. L. Swinkels, M. J. Szczepańczyk, A. Szolgyen, M. Tacca, D. Talukder, D. B. Tanner, M. Tápai, A. Taracchini, R. Taylor, T. Theeg, E. G. Thomas, M. Thomas, P. Thomas, K. A. Thorne, E. Thrane, T. Tippens, S. Tiwari, V. Tiwari, K. V. Tokmakov, K. Toland, C. Tomlinson, M. Tonelli, Z. Tornasi, C. I. Torrie, D. Töyrä, F. Travasso, G. Traylor, D. Trifirò, J. Trinastic, M. C. Tringali, L. Trozzo, M. Tse, R. Tso, M. Turconi, D. Tuyenbayev, D. Ugolini, C. S. Unnikrishnan, A. L. Urban, S. A. Usman, H. Vahlbruch, G. Vajente, G. Valdes, N. van Bakel, M. van Beuzekom, J. F. J. van den Brand, C. Van Den Broeck, D. C. Vander-Hyde, L. van der Schaaf, J. V. van Heijningen, A. A. van Veggel, M. Vardaro, V. Varma, S. Vass, M. Vasúth, A. Vecchio, G. Vedovato, J. Veitch, P. J. Veitch, K. Venkateswara, G. Venugopalan, D. Verkindt, F. Vetrano, A. Viceré, A. D. Viets, S. Vinciguerra, D. J. Vine, J.-Y. Vinet, S. Vitale, T. Vo, H. Vocca, C. Vorvick, D. V. Voss, W. D. Vousden, S. P. Vyatchanin, A. R. Wade, L. E. Wade, M. Wade, M. Walker, L. Wallace, S. Walsh, G. Wang, H. Wang, M. Wang, Y. Wang, R. L. Ward, J. Warner, M. Was, J. Watchi, B. Weaver, L.-W. Wei, M. Weinert, A. J. Weinstein, R. Weiss, L. Wen, P. Weßels, T. Westphal, K. Wette, J. T. Whelan, B. F. Whiting, C. Whittle, D. Williams, R. D. Williams, A. R. Williamson, J. L. Willis, B. Willke, M. H. Wimmer, W. Winkler, C. C. Wipf, H. Wittel, G. Woan, J. Woehler, J. Worden, J. L. Wright, D. S. Wu, G. Wu, W. Yam, H. Yamamoto, C. C. Yancey, M. J. Yap, Hang Yu, Haocun Yu, M. Yvert, A. Zadrożny, L. Zangrando, M. Zanolin, J.-P. Zendri, M. Zevin, L. Zhang, M. Zhang, T. Zhang, Y. Zhang, C. Zhao, M. Zhou, Z. Zhou, X. J. Zhu, M. E. Zucker, J. Zweizig, The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration, R. L. Aptekar, D. D. Frederiks, S. V. Golenetskii, D. V. Golovin, K. Hurley, M. L. Litvak, I. G. Mitrofanov, A. Rau, A. B. Sanin, D. S. Svinkin, A. von Kienlin, X. Zhang, and The IPN Collaboration

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binaries: close, gamma-ray burst: general, gravitational waves, 04.80.Nn, 07.05.Kf, 95.85.Sz, Astrophysics, QB460-466
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We present the results of the search for gravitational waves (GWs) associated with γ -ray bursts detected during the first observing run of the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). We find no evidence of a GW signal for any of the 41 γ -ray bursts for which LIGO data are available with sufficient duration. For all γ -ray bursts, we place lower bounds on the distance to the source using the optimistic assumption that GWs with an energy of ${10}^{-2}{M}_{\odot }{c}^{2}$ were emitted within the $16$ – $500$ Hz band, and we find a median 90% confidence limit of 71 Mpc at 150 Hz. For the subset of 19 short/hard γ -ray bursts, we place lower bounds on distance with a median 90% confidence limit of 90 Mpc for binary neutron star (BNS) coalescences, and 150 and 139 Mpc for neutron star–black hole coalescences with spins aligned to the orbital angular momentum and in a generic configuration, respectively. These are the highest distance limits ever achieved by GW searches. We also discuss in detail the results of the search for GWs associated with GRB 150906B, an event that was localized by the InterPlanetary Network near the local galaxy NGC 3313, which is at a luminosity distance of $54$ Mpc ( z = 0.0124). Assuming the γ -ray emission is beamed with a jet half-opening angle $\leqslant 30^\circ $ , we exclude a BNS and a neutron star–black hole in NGC 3313 as the progenitor of this event with confidence >99%. Further, we exclude such progenitors up to a distance of 102 Mpc and 170 Mpc, respectively.

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2017
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4. A peculiar hard X-ray counterpart of a Galactic fast radio burst

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R. L. Aptekar, S. V. Golenetskii, Dmitry S. Svinkin, A. Tsvetkova, Andrei M. Bykov, A. Ridnaia, Sergei Popov, T. L. Cline, A. Lysenko, M. Ulanov, and D. D. Frederiks

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High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Fast radio burst, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Magnetar, 01 natural sciences, Coincident, 0103 physical sciences, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Event (particle physics), Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences
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Fast radio bursts are bright, millisecond-scale radio flashes of yet unknown physical origin. Recently, their extragalactic nature has been demonstrated and an increasing number of the sources have been found to repeat. Young, highly magnetized, isolated neutron stars - magnetars - have been suggested as the most promising candidates for fast radio burst progenitors owing to their energetics and high X-ray flaring activity. Here we report the detection with the Konus-Wind of a hard X-ray event of April 28, 2020, temporarily coincident with a bright, two-peak radio burst from the Galactic magnetar SGR~1935+2154 with properties remarkably similar to those of fast radio bursts. We show that two peaks of the double-peaked X-ray burst coincide in time with the radio peaks, confirming that the X-ray and radio emission most likely have a common origin. Thus, this is the first simultaneous detection of a fast radio burst from a Galactic magnetar and its high-energy counterpart. The total energy emitted in X-rays in this burst is typical of bright short magnetar bursts, but an unusual hardness of its energy spectrum strongly distinguish the April 28 event among multiple "ordinary" flares detected from SGR~1935+2154 previously. This, and a recent non-detection of radio emission from about one hundred typical soft bursts from SGR 1935+2154 favors the idea that bright, FRB-like magnetar signals are associated with rare, hard-spectrum X-ray bursts, which implied rate ($\sim$ 0.04 yr$^{-1}$ magnetar$^{-1}$) appears consistent with the rate estimate of SGR 1935+2154-like radio bursts (0.007 - 0.04 yr$^{-1}$ magnetar$^{-1}$)., 25 pages, 6 figures, 4 tables

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2021

5. The Second Catalog of Interplanetary Network Localizations of Konus Short Duration Gamma-Ray Bursts

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D. S. Svinkin, K. Hurley, A. V. Ridnaia, A. L. Lysenko, D. D. Frederiks, S. V. Golenetskii, A. E. Tsvetkova, M. V. Ulanov, A. Kokomov, T. L. Cline, I. Mitrofanov, D. Golovin, A. Kozyrev, M. Litvak, A. Sanin, A. Goldstein, M. S. Briggs, C. Wilson-Hodge, E. Burns, A. von Kienlin, X.-L. Zhang, A. Rau, V. Savchenko, E. Bozzo, C. Ferrigno, S. Barthelmy, J. Cummings, H. Krimm, D. M. Palmer, A. Tohuvavohu, K. Yamaoka, M. Ohno, Y. Fukazawa, Y. Hanabata, T. Takahashi, M. Tashiro, Y. Terada, T. Murakami, K. Makishima, W. Boynton, C. W. Fellows, K. P. Harshman, H. Enos, R. Starr, J. Goldsten, R. Gold, A. Ursi, M. Tavani, A. Bulgarelli, C. Casentini, E. Del Monte, Y. Evangelista, M. Galli, F. Longo, M. Marisaldi, N. Parmiggiani, C. Pittori, M. Romani, F. Verrecchia, D. M. Smith, W. Hajdas, S. Xiao, C. Cai, Q. B. Yi, Y. Q. Zhang, S. L. Xiong, X. B. Li, Y. Huang, C. K. Li, S. N. Zhang, L. M. Song, C. Z. Liu, X. Q. Li, W. X. Peng, and I. Martinez-Castellanos

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High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Space and Planetary Science, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
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We present the catalog of Interplanetary Network (IPN) localizations for 199 short-duration gamma-ray bursts (sGRBs) detected by the Konus-Wind (KW) experiment between 2011 January 1 and 2021 August 31, which extends the initial sample of IPN localized KW sGRBs (arXiv:1301.3740) to 495 events. We present the most comprehensive IPN localization data on these events, including probability sky maps in HEALPix format., Published in ApJS

Published
2022

6. A blast from the infant Universe: the very high-z GRB 210905A

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A. Rossi, D. D. Frederiks, D. A. Kann, M. De Pasquale, E. Pian, G. Lamb, P. D’Avanzo, L. Izzo, A. J. Levan, D. B. Malesani, A. Melandri, A. Nicuesa Guelbenzu, S. Schulze, R. Strausbaugh, N. R. Tanvir, L. Amati, S. Campana, A. Cucchiara, G. Ghirlanda, M. Della Valle, S. Klose, R. Salvaterra, R. L. C. Starling, G. Stratta, A. E. Tsvetkova, S. D. Vergani, A. D’Aì, D. Burgarella, S. Covino, V. D’Elia, A. de Ugarte Postigo, H. Fausey, J. P. U. Fynbo, F. Frontera, C. Guidorzi, K. E. Heintz, N. Masetti, E. Maiorano, C. G. Mundell, S. R. Oates, M. J. Page, E. Palazzi, J. Palmerio, G. Pugliese, A. Rau, A. Saccardi, B. Sbarufatti, D. S. Svinkin, G. Tagliaferri, A. J. van der Horst, D. J. Watson, M. V. Ulanov, K. Wiersema, D. Xu, J. Zhang, Galaxies, Etoiles, Physique, Instrumentation (GEPI), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Astrophysique Relativiste Théories Expériences Métrologie Instrumentation Signaux (ARTEMIS), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España), European Commission, and European Research Council

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Astronomy, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, gamma-ray burst: general, FOS: Physical sciences, gamma-ray burst: general, gamma-ray burst: individual: GRB 210915A, GRB HOST GALAXIES, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, general [gamma-ray burst], very high redshift, NO, GAMMA-RAY BURST, individual: GRB210905A [gamma-ray burst], STAR-FORMATION CLUES, PROMPT EMISSION, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, SWIFT/BAT6 COMPLETE SAMPLE, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), gamma-ray burst: individual: GRB210905A, very high redshift, Astronomy and Astrophysics, OPTICAL FLASH, JET OPENING ANGLE, AFTERGLOW LIGHT CURVES, Space and Planetary Science, X-RAY, gamma-ray burst: individual: GRB210905A, gamma-ray burst: individual: GRB 210915A, POPULATION III, Gamma-Ray Burst: Individual: GRB 210905A, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]
Abstract

Full list of authors: Rossi, A.; Frederiks, D. D.; Kann, D. A.; De Pasquale, M.; Pian, E.; Lamb, G.; D'Avanzo, P.; Izzo, L.; Levan, A. J.; Malesani, D. B.; Melandri, A.; Guelbenzu, A. Nicuesa; Schulze, S.; Strausbaugh, R.; Tanvir, N. R.; Amati, L.; Campana, S.; Cucchiara, A.; Ghirlanda, G.; Della Valle, M.; Klose, S.; Salvaterra, R.; Starling, R. L. C.; Stratta, G.; Tsvetkova, A. E.; Vergani, S. D.; D'Ai, A.; Burgarella, D.; Covino, S.; D'Elia, V; Postigo, A. de Ugarte; Fausey, H.; Fynbo, J. P. U.; Frontera, F.; Guidorzi, C.; Heintz, K. E.; Masetti, N.; Maiorano, F.; Mundell, C. G.; Oates, S. R.; Page, M. J.; Palazzi, E.; Palmerio, J.; Pugliese, G.; Rau, A.; Saccardi, A.; Sbarufatti, B.; Svinkin, D. S.; Tagliaferri, G.; van der Horst, A. J.; Watson, D. J.; Ulanov, M., V; Wiersema, K.; Xu, D.; Zhang, J.--This is an Open Access article, published by EDP Sciences, under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited., We present a detailed follow-up of the very energetic GRB 210905A at a high redshift of z = 6.312 and its luminous X-ray and optical afterglow. Following the detection by Swift and Konus-Wind, we obtained a photometric and spectroscopic follow-up in the optical and near-infrared (NIR), covering both the prompt and afterglow emission from a few minutes up to 20 Ms after burst. With an isotropic gamma-ray energy release of Eiso = 1.27−0.19+0.20 × 1054 erg, GRB 210905A lies in the top ∼7% of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) in the Konus-Wind catalogue in terms of energy released. Its afterglow is among the most luminous ever observed, and, in particular, it is one of the most luminous in the optical at t ≳ 0.5 d in the rest frame. The afterglow starts with a shallow evolution that can be explained by energy injection, and it is followed by a steeper decay, while the spectral energy distribution is in agreement with slow cooling in a constant-density environment within the standard fireball theory. A jet break at ∼46.2 ± 16.3 d (6.3 ± 2.2 d rest-frame) has been observed in the X-ray light curve; however, it is hidden in the H band due to a constant contribution from the host galaxy and potentially from a foreground intervening galaxy. In particular, the host galaxy is only the fourth GRB host at z > 6 known to date. By assuming a number density n = 1 cm−3 and an efficiency η = 0.2, we derived a half-opening angle of 8.4 ° ±1.0°, which is the highest ever measured for a z ≳ 6 burst, but within the range covered by closer events. The resulting collimation-corrected gamma-ray energy release of ≃1 × 1052 erg is also among the highest ever measured. The moderately large half-opening angle argues against recent claims of an inverse dependence of the half-opening angle on the redshift. The total jet energy is likely too large to be sustained by a standard magnetar, and it suggests that the central engine of this burst was a newly formed black hole. Despite the outstanding energetics and luminosity of both GRB 210905A and its afterglow, we demonstrate that they are consistent within 2σ with those of less distant bursts, indicating that the powering mechanisms and progenitors do not evolve significantly with redshift. © A. Rossi et al. 2022., A. Rossi acknowledges support from the INAF project Premiale Supporto Arizona & Italia. D.D.F. and A.E.T. acknowledge support from RSF grant 21-12-00250. D.A.K. acknowledges support from Spanish National Research Project RTI2018-098104-J-I00 (GRBPhot). A.R., E.Pal., P.D.A., L.A., E.Pi., G.S., S.C., V.D.E., M.D.V., and A.M. acknowledge support from PRIN-MIUR 2017 (grant 20179ZF5KS). P.D.A., A.M. acknowledge support from the Italian Space Agency, contract ASI/INAF n. I/004/11/5. L.I. was supported by grants from VILLUM FONDEN (project number 16599 and 25501). D.B.M. and A.J.L. acknowledge the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Seventh Framework programme (FP7-2007-2013) (grant agreement No. 725246). The Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN) is funded by the Danish National Research Foundation under grant No. 140. K.E.H. acknowledges support by a Postdoctoral Fellowship Grant (217690–051) from The Icelandic Research Fund. C.G.M. acknowledges financial support from Hiroko and Jim Sherwin. Part of the funding for GROND (both hardware as well as personnel) was generously granted from the Leibniz-Prize to Prof. G. Hasinger (DFG grant HA 1850/28-1). This work made use of data supplied by the UK Swift Science Data Centre at the University of Leicester., With funding from the Spanish government through the Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence accreditation SEV-2017-0709.

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2022

7. Discovery and confirmation of the shortest gamma-ray burst from a collapsar

Author

Poonam Chandra, Tim Dietrich, Mouza Almualla, Pradip Gatkine, Chris Cannella, Kevin Hurley, Philippe Rosnet, Simeon Reusch, Dmitry S. Svinkin, Frank J. Masci, Igor Andreoni, Erica Hammerstein, Shri Kulkarni, Viraj Karambelkar, Joseph Mangan, Shabnam Iyyani, B. Rusholme, D. D. Frederiks, Maayane T. Soumagnac, Eleonora Troja, Anna Y. Q. Ho, Ana Sagués Carracedo, Shreya Anand, Rachel Dunwoody, Kaushik De, Harsh Kumar, Matthew J. Graham, Richard Walters, Eric Burns, Shashi B. Pandey, Erik C. Kool, P. T.H. Pang, Varun Bhalerao, Bryce Bolin, S. Dichiara, A. J. Castro-Tirado, Geoffrey Ryan, A. F. Valeev, Christoffer Fremling, Tomas Ahumada, Mansi M. Kasliwal, Mattia Bulla, S. Bradley Cenko, Sheila McBreen, Eric C. Bellm, Sonalika Purkayastha, Robert Stein, A. Ridnaia, Dmitry A. Duev, Virginia Cunningham, Ashish Mahabal, Daniel A. Perley, Avishay Gal-Yam, Michael W. Coughlin, A. Tsvetkova, Roger Smith, Leo Singer, Laboratoire de Physique de Clermont (LPC), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Clermont Auvergne (UCA), National Science Foundation (US), Irish Research Council, Science Foundation Ireland, European Commission, and Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España)

Subjects
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, GRB 980425, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Kilonova, Afterglow, NO, Supernova, Neutron star, Stars, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Gamma-ray burst, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, QC, Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, QB
Abstract

Full list of authors: Ahumada, Tomás; Singer, Leo P.; Anand, Shreya; Coughlin, Michael W.; Kasliwal, Mansi M.; Ryan, Geoffrey; Andreoni, Igor; Cenko, S. Bradley; Fremling, Christoffer; Kumar, Harsh; Pang, Peter T. H.; Burns, Eric; Cunningham, Virginia; Dichiara, Simone; Dietrich, Tim; Svinkin, Dmitry S.; Almualla, Mouza; Castro-Tirado, Alberto J.; De, Kishalay; Dunwoody, Rachel; Gatkine, Pradip; Hammerstein, Erica; Iyyani, Shabnam; Mangan, Joseph; Perley, Dan; Purkayastha, Sonalika; Bellm, Eric; Bhalerao, Varun; Bolin, Bryce; Bulla, Mattia; Cannella, Christopher; Chandra, Poonam; Duev, Dmitry A.; Frederiks, Dmitry; Gal-Yam, Avishay; Graham, Matthew; Ho, Anna Y. Q.; Hurley, Kevin; Karambelkar, Viraj; Kool, Erik C.; Kulkarni, S. R.; Mahabal, Ashish; Masci, Frank; McBreen, Sheila; Pandey, Shashi B.; Reusch, Simeon; Ridnaia, Anna; Rosnet, Philippe; Rusholme, Benjamin; Carracedo, Ana Sagués; Smith, Roger; Soumagnac, Maayane; Stein, Robert; Troja, Eleonora; Tsvetkova, Anastasia; Walters, Richard; Valeev, Azamat F., Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are among the brightest and most energetic events in the Universe. The duration and hardness distribution of GRBs has two clusters1, now understood to reflect (at least) two different progenitors2. Short-hard GRBs (SGRBs; T90 < 2 s) arise from compact binary mergers, and long-soft GRBs (LGRBs; T90 > 2 s) have been attributed to the collapse of peculiar massive stars (collapsars)3. The discovery of SN 1998bw/GRB 980425 (ref. 4) marked the first association of an LGRB with a collapsar, and AT 2017gfo (ref. 5)/GRB 170817A/GW170817 (ref. 6) marked the first association of an SGRB with a binary neutron star merger, which also produced a gravitational wave. Here, we present the discovery of ZTF20abwysqy (AT2020scz), a fast-fading optical transient in the Fermi satellite and the Interplanetary Network localization regions of GRB 200826A; X-ray and radio emission further confirm that this is the afterglow. Follow-up imaging (at rest-frame 16.5 days) reveals excess emission above the afterglow that cannot be explained as an underlying kilonova, but which is consistent with being the supernova. Although the GRB duration is short (rest-frame T90 of 0.65 s), our panchromatic follow-up data confirm a collapsar origin. GRB 200826A is the shortest LGRB found with an associated collapsar; it appears to sit on the brink between a successful and a failed collapsar. Our discovery is consistent with the hypothesis that most collapsars fail to produce ultra-relativistic jets. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited., This work was supported by the GROWTH (Global Relay of Observatories Watching Transients Happen) project funded by the National Science Foundation under PIRE grant No. 1545949. GROWTH is a collaborative project among California Institute of Technology (USA), University of Maryland College Park (USA), University of Wisconsin Milwaukee (USA), Texas Tech University (USA), San Diego State University (USA), University of Washington (USA), Los Alamos National Laboratory (USA), Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan), National Central University (Taiwan), Indian Institute of Astrophysics (India), Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (India), Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel), The Oskar Klein Centre at Stockholm University (Sweden), Humboldt University (Germany), Liverpool John Moores University (UK) and University of Sydney (Australia). Based on observations obtained with the Samuel Oschin Telescope 48-inch and the 60-inch Telescope at the Palomar Observatory as part of the Zwicky Transient Facility project. ZTF is supported by the National Science Foundation under grant No. AST-1440341 and a collaboration including Caltech, IPAC, the Weizmann Institute for Science, the Oskar Klein Center at Stockholm University, the University of Maryland, the University of Washington (UW), Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron and Humboldt University, Los Alamos National Laboratories, the TANGO Consortium of Taiwan, the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories. Operations are conducted by Caltech Optical Observatories, IPAC and UW. The work is partly based on the observations made with the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC), installed in the Spanish Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos of the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, in the island of La Palma. The material is based on work supported by NASA under award No. 80GSFC17M0002. A.J.C.T. acknowledges all co-Is of the GTC proposal and the financial support from the State Agency for Research of the Spanish MCIU through the 'Center of Excellence Severo Ochoa' award to the Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia (SEV-2017-0709). The ZTF forced-photometry service was funded under the Heising-Simons Foundation grant No. 12540303 (PI: Graham). S.M. and J.M. acknowledge support from Science Foundation Ireland under grant No. 17/CDA/4723. R.D. acknowledges support from the Irish Research Council (IRC) under grant GOIPG/2019/2033. Analysis was performed on the YORP cluster administered by the Center for Theory and Computation, part of the Department of Astronomy at the University of Maryland. Resources supporting this work were provided by the NASA High-End Computing (HEC) Program through the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Division at Ames Research Center. These results also made use of Lowell Observatory's Lowell Discovery Telescope (LDT), formerly the Discovery Channel Telescope. Lowell operates the LDT in partnership with Boston University, Northern Arizona University, the University of Maryland and the University of Toledo. Partial support of the LDT was provided by Discovery Communications. LMI was built by Lowell Observatory using funds from the National Science Foundation (AST-1005313). M.W.C. acknowledges support from the National Science Foundation with grant No. PHY-2010970. S.A. gratefully acknowledges support from the GROWTH PIRE grant (1545949). Part of this research was carried out at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. E.C.K. acknowledges support from the G.R.E.A.T research environment and the Wenner-Gren Foundations. P.T.H.P. is supported by the research program of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). H.K. is an LSSTC Data Science Fellow and thanks the LSSTC Data Science Fellowship Program, which is funded by LSSTC, NSF Cybertraining grant No. 1829740, the Brinson Foundation and the Moore Foundation; his participation in the program has benefited this work. S.M. and J.M. acknowledge support from Science Foundation Ireland under grant No. 17/CDA/4723. R.D. acknowledges support from the Irish Research Council (IRC) under grant GOIPG/2019/2033. P.C. is a Swarana Jayanti Fellow and acknowledges support from the Department of Science and Technology via award No. DST/SJF/PSA-01/2014-15). We thank the staff of the GMRT who made these observations possible. GMRT is run by the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. P.C. is a Swarna Jayanti Fellow and thanks the Department of Science & Technology in India. We thank D. Bhattacharya, A. Vibhute and V. Shenoy for help with the CZTI analysis. V.A.F. acknowledges support from the RFBR 18-29-21030.

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2021

8. Identification of a Local Sample of Gamma-Ray Bursts Consistent with a Magnetar Giant Flare Origin

Author

Eric Burns, Matthew G. Baring, R. Aloisi, Adam Goldstein, Dmitry S. Svinkin, M. Negro, A. Tohuvavohu, V. G. Savchenko, Gregory Ashton, Zorawar Wadiasingh, Rachel Hamburg, Michael S. Briggs, C. M. Hui, K. Hurley, Péter Veres, Colleen A. Wilson-Hodge, David L. Kaplan, Oliver J. Roberts, D. Kocevski, Nelson Christensen, A. Ridnaia, Mansi Kasliwal, George Younes, S. B. Cenko, David O. Cook, D. D. Frederiks, Astrophysique Relativiste Théories Expériences Métrologie Instrumentation Signaux (ARTEMIS), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (... - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, and COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Subjects
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Milky Way, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Population, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Magnetar, 01 natural sciences, 0103 physical sciences, Satellite galaxy, education, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, education.field_of_study, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Galaxy, Neutron star, Supernova, Space and Planetary Science, Gamma-ray burst, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract

Cosmological Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are known to arise from distinct progenitor channels: short GRBs mostly from neutron star mergers and long GRBs from a rare type of core-collapse supernova (CCSN) called collapsars. Highly magnetized neutron stars called magnetars also generate energetic, short-duration gamma-ray transients called Magnetar Giant Flares (MGFs). Three have been observed from the Milky Way and its satellite galaxies and they have long been suspected to contribute a third class of extragalactic GRBs. We report the unambiguous identification of a distinct population of 4 local ($$99.9% confidence. These properties, the host galaxies, and non-detection in gravitational waves all point to an extragalactic MGF origin. Despite the small sample, the inferred volumetric rates for events above $4\times10^{44}$ erg of $R_{MGF}=3.8_{-3.1}^{+4.0}\times10^5$ Gpc$^{-3}$ yr$^{-1}$ place MGFs as the dominant gamma-ray transient detected from extragalactic sources. As previously suggested, these rates imply that some magnetars produce multiple MGFs, providing a source of repeating GRBs. The rates and host galaxies favor common CCSN as key progenitors of magnetars., Comment: Accepted for publication in ApJL. Updated versions fix typos in the table and updates citations to published versions

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2021

9. The Konus-Wind catalog of gamma-ray bursts with known redshifts. II. Waiting mode bursts simultaneously detected by Swift/BAT

Author

Dmitry S. Svinkin, A. Tsvetkova, Kevin Hurley, Thomas L. Cline, M. Ulanov, S. Golenetskii, R. L. Aptekar, A. Ridnaia, D. D. Frederiks, and A. Lysenko

Subjects
Physics, Swift, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Mode (statistics), FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Spectral bands, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Redshift, Luminosity, law.invention, Telescope, Space and Planetary Science, law, Range (statistics), Gamma-ray burst, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, computer, computer.programming_language
Abstract

In the Second part of The Konus-Wind Catalog of Gamma-Ray Bursts with Known Redshifts (first part: Tsvetkova et al. 2017; T17), we present the results of a systematic study of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) with reliable redshift estimates detected simultaneously by the Konus-Wind (KW) experiment (in the waiting mode) and by the Swift/BAT (BAT) telescope during the period from 2005 January to the end of 2018. By taking advantage of the high sensitivity of BAT and the wide spectral band of KW we were able to constrain the peak spectral energies, the broadband energy fluences, and the peak fluxes for the joint KW-BAT sample of 167 weak, relatively soft GRBs (including four short bursts). Based on the GRB redshifts, which span the range $0.04 \leq z \leq 9.4$, we estimate the rest-frame, isotropic-equivalent energy, and peak luminosity. For 14 GRBs with reasonably constrained jet breaks, we provide the collimation-corrected values of the energetics. This work extends the sample of KW GRBs with known redshifts to 338 GRBs, the largest set of cosmological GRBs studied to date over a broad energy band. With the full KW sample, accounting for the instrumental bias, we explore GRB rest-frame properties, including hardness-intensity correlations, GRB luminosity evolution, luminosity and isotropic-energy functions, and the evolution of the GRB formation rate, which we find to be in general agreement with those reported in T17 and other previous studies., Accepted for publication in ApJ; 41 pages, 5 figures, 7 tables. References in Table 5 fixed compared with the initial submission. See also arXiv:1710.08746 for Part I of the Catalog

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2020

11. SN 2020bvc: A Broad-line Type Ic Supernova with a Double-peaked Optical Light Curve and a Luminous X-Ray and Radio Counterpart

Author

Eric Burns, T. Kupfer, Shreya Anand, Cristina Barbarino, David Hale, Avishay Gal-Yam, Shrinivas R. Kulkarni, Steve Schulze, Jesper Sollerman, Julia Martikainen, Kirsty Taggart, Russ R. Laher, Leonardo Tartaglia, Lin Yan, Maayane T. Soumagnac, Frank J. Masci, Mansi M. Kasliwal, Daniel A. Goldstein, Dmitry S. Svinkin, Richard Dekany, V. G. Savchenko, Ben Rusholme, D. D. Frederiks, James D. Neill, Christoffer Fremling, Alessandra Corsi, David L. Shupe, Anna Y. Q. Ho, Rachel Bruch, Eric C. Bellm, Kaushik De, Jeffry Zolkower, A. Ridnaia, Dmitry A. Duev, Ragnhild Lunnan, V. Zach Golkhou, Matthew J. Graham, S. Bradley Cenko, Alexandre Delacroix, Nora L. Strotjohann, Daniel A. Perley, Planetary-system research, and Department of Physics

Subjects
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Astrophysics, Type Ic supernovae, Surveys, Atomic, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Spectral line, Luminosity, Particle and Plasma Physics, 2006AJ, Core-collapse supernovae, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, QC, QB, astro-ph.HE, Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), PROGENITORS, X-ray transient sources, BURST, Supernova, Supernovae, Gamma-ray bursts, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, High energy astrophysics, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Physical Chemistry (incl. Structural), Radio transient sources, SHOCK BREAKOUT, TELESCOPE, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Type (model theory), GRB-060218, PHYSICS, 0103 physical sciences, Binary star, LOW-RESOLUTION, Nuclear, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Molecular, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 115 Astronomy, Space science, Light curve, Transient sources, EVOLUTION, Space and Planetary Science, Variable star, EMISSION, Gamma-ray burst
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We present optical, radio, and X-ray observations of SN2020bvc (=ASASSN20bs; ZTF20aalxlis), a nearby ($z=0.0252$; $d$=114 Mpc) broad-lined (BL) Type Ic supernova (SN). Our observations show that SN2020bvc shares several properties in common with the Ic-BL SN2006aj, which was associated with the low-luminosity gamma-ray burst (LLGRB) 060218. First, the 10 GHz radio light curve is on the faint end of LLGRB-SNe ($L_\mathrm{radio} \approx 10^{37}$erg/s): we model our VLA observations (spanning 13-43 d) as synchrotron emission from a mildly relativistic ($v \gtrsim 0.3c$) forward shock. Second, with Swift and Chandra we detect X-ray emission ($L_X \approx 10^{41}$erg/s) that is not naturally explained as inverse Compton emission or as part of the same synchrotron spectrum as the radio emission. Third, high-cadence ($6\times$/night) data from the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) shows a double-peaked optical light curve, the first peak from shock-cooling emission from extended low-mass material (mass $M10^{12}$cm) and the second peak from the radioactive decay of Ni-56. SN2020bvc is the first confirmed double-peaked Ic-BL SN discovered without a GRB trigger, and shows X-ray and radio emission similar to LLGRB-SNe: this is consistent with models in which the same mechanism produces both the LLGRB and the shock-cooling emission. For four of the five other nearby ($z\lesssim0.05$) Ic-BL SNe with ZTF high-cadence data, we rule out a first peak like that seen in SN2006aj and SN2020bvc, i.e. that lasts $\approx 1$d and reaches a peak luminosity $M \approx -18$. X-ray and radio follow-up observations of future such events will establish whether double-peaked optical light curves are indeed predictive of LLGRB-like X-ray and radio emission., Accepted to ApJ. 39 pages, 17 figures. Comments welcome

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2020

12. Author Correction: Discovery and confirmation of the shortest gamma-ray burst from a collapsar

Author

Anna Y. Q. Ho, Kevin Hurley, Philippe Rosnet, Simeon Reusch, A. J. Castro-Tirado, Harsh Kumar, Viraj Karambelkar, Eleonora Troja, S. R. Kulkarni, Kaushik De, Ashish Mahabal, Igor Andreoni, Leo Singer, Bryce Bolin, Rachel Dunwoody, Christoffer Fremling, A. F. Valeev, Avishay Gal-Yam, Poonam Chandra, S. Dichiara, Roger Smith, Dmitry A. Duev, Chris Cannella, E. C. Kool, S. Bradley Cenko, Richard Walters, Matthew J. Graham, Maayane T. Soumagnac, B. Rusholme, Joseph Mangan, Varun Bhalerao, Eric Burns, Tomas Ahumada, Geoffrey Ryan, Mouza Almualla, A. Tsvetkova, Mansi M. Kasliwal, Shashi B. Pandey, Peter T. H. Pang, Mattia Bulla, Virginia Cunningham, Sheila McBreen, Dmitry S. Svinkin, Eric C. Bellm, Shreya Anand, Sonalika Purkayastha, Pradip Gatkine, Tim Dietrich, Robert Stein, Erica Hammerstein, Frank J. Masci, A. Ridnaia, Shabnam Iyyani, D. D. Frederiks, Michael W. Coughlin, Daniel A. Perley, and Ana Sagués Carracedo

Subjects
Physics, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, High-energy astronomy, 0103 physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Gamma-ray burst, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Time domain astronomy
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2021

13. The Broad-lined Ic Supernova ZTF18aaqjovh (SN 2018bvw): An Optically-discovered Engine-driven Supernova Candidate with Luminous Radio Emission

Author

Matthew J. Graham, Alessandra Corsi, Adam A. Miller, S. Bradley Cenko, Russ R. Laher, Ashish Mahabal, David L. Shupe, Jesper Sollerman, D. D. Frederiks, Maayane T. Soumagnac, Anna Y. Q. Ho, Richard Dekany, Shrinivas R. Kulkarni, Ben Rusholme, Scott M. Adams, Christoffer Fremling, Yashvi Sharma, Thomas Kupfer, A. Ridnaia, Francesco Taddia, Kaushik De, Reed Riddle, V. Zach Golkhou, Daniel J. Reiley, Frank J. Masci, Tiara Hung, Dmitry S. Svinkin, and James D. Neill

Subjects
Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Light curve, 01 natural sciences, Luminosity, Supernova, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, 0103 physical sciences, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Ejecta, Gamma-ray burst, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Event (particle physics), Order of magnitude, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Abstract

We present ZTF18aaqjovh (SN 2018bvw), a high-velocity ("broad-lined") stripped-envelope (Type Ic) supernova (Ic-BL SN) discovered in the Zwicky Transient Facility one-day cadence survey. ZTF18aaqjovh shares a number of features in common with engine-driven explosions: the photospheric velocity and the shape of the optical light curve are very similar to that of the Type Ic-BL SN 1998bw, which was associated with a low-luminosity gamma-ray burst (LLGRB) and had relativistic ejecta. However, the radio luminosity of ZTF18aaqjovh is almost two orders of magnitude fainter than that of SN 1998bw at the same velocity phase, and the shock velocity is at most mildly relativistic (v=0.06-0.4c). A search of high-energy catalogs reveals no compelling GRB counterpart to ZTF18aaqjovh, and the limit on the prompt GRB luminosity of $L_{\gamma,\mathrm{iso}} \approx 1.6 \times 10^{48}$ erg/sec excludes a classical GRB but not an LLGRB. Altogether, ZTF18aaqjovh represents another transition event between engine-driven SNe associated with GRBs and "ordinary" Ic-BL SNe., Comment: 18 pages, 8 figures. Accepted to the Astrophysical Journal on 2 March 2020. Revised from proofs on 4 Apr 2020

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2019
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14. Spectral evolution of long gamma-ray bursts observed with Konus-Wind

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D. D. Frederiks, A. E. Tsvetkova, A. G. Demin, M. V. Ulanov, Yu R. Temiraev, and D. Svinkin

Subjects
Physics, History, Spectral evolution, Astrophysics, Gamma-ray burst, Computer Science Applications, Education
Abstract

We present a preliminary analysis of spectral evolution of 35 long bright gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) detected by Konus-Wind instrument. From the temporal and spectral analyses of the sample, we investigate the evolution of parameters of the smoothly joined broken power-law spectral model (the Band “GRB” function), in particular, we analyse hardness-intensity correlation within a burst. We show that the bulk of bursts exhibit Ep ∝ F γ relation with the slope γ ∼ 0.3−0.5, where Ep is the vFv spectrum peak energy and F is the energy flux; while a number of events have the smooth initial phase with strong spectral evolution with γ ≳ 1. Finally, we discuss derived the Band function parameters and their evolution pattern in the framework of GRB emission models.

Published
2020

15. The first observation of an intermediate flare from SGR 1935+2154

Author

D. D. Frederiks, I. G. Mitrofanov, A. Tsvetkova, Dmitry Golovin, Dmitry S. Svinkin, V. Pal'Shin, G. L. Israel, Kevin Hurley, Xiao-Ling Zhang, John O. Goldsten, and A. Kozlova

Subjects
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Bremsstrahlung, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Light curve, 01 natural sciences, Power law, Spectral line, law.invention, Space and Planetary Science, law, 0103 physical sciences, Black-body radiation, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Interplanetary spaceflight, Supernova remnant, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Flare
Abstract

We report on the bright burst detected by four Interplanetary network (IPN) spacecraft on 2015 April 12. The IPN localization of the source is consistent with the position of the recently discovered soft gamma-repeater SGR 1935+2154. From the Konus-Wind (KW) observation, we derive temporal and spectral parameters of the emission, and the burst energetics. The rather long duration of the burst ($\sim$1.7 s) and the large measured energy fluence ($\sim2.5\times10^{-5}$ erg cm$^{-2}$) put it in the class of rare "intermediate" SGR flares, and this is the first one observed from SGR 1935+2154. A search for quasi-periodic oscillations in the KW light curve yields no statistically significant signal. Of four spectral models tested, optically thin thermal bremsstrahlung and a single blackbody (BB) function can be rejected on statistical grounds; two more complex models, a cutoff power law (CPL) and a sum of two BB functions (2BB), fit the burst spectra well and neither of them may be ruled out by the KW observation. The CPL and 2BB model parameters we report for this bright flare are typical of SGRs; they are also consistent with those obtained from observations of much weaker and shorter SGR 1935+2154 bursts with other instruments. From the distribution of double blackbody spectral fit parameters we estimate the SGR 1935+2154 distance to be $, Comment: 7 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

Published
2016

16. GRB171205A/SN2017iuk: A local low-luminosity gamma-ray burst

Author

A. Tsvetkova, Antonino D'Ai, A. Tohuvavohu, Dmitry S. Svinkin, M. de Pasquale, Valerio D'Elia, P. T. O'Brien, S. W. K. Emery, J. P. Osborne, A. Melandri, S. R. Oates, Peter J. Brown, D. D. Frederiks, Sergio Campana, David N. Burrows, S. B. Cenko, R. L. C. Starling, M. H. Siegel, A. Y. Lien, A. A. Breeveld, G. Tagliaferri, K. L. Page, ITA, USA, GBR, and TUR

Subjects
Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), media_common.quotation_subject, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Context (language use), Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Light curve, 01 natural sciences, Universe, Redshift, Galaxy, Luminosity, Supernova, Space and Planetary Science, 0103 physical sciences, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, 010306 general physics, Gamma-ray burst, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, media_common
Abstract

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) occurring in the local Universe constitute an interesting sub-class of the GRB family, since their luminosity is on average lower than that of their cosmological analogs. We aim to contribute to the study of local bursts by reporting the case of GRB 171205A. This source was discovered by Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) on 2017, December 5 and soon associated with a low redshift host galaxy (z=0.037), and an emerging SN (SN 2017iuk). We analyzed the full Swift, dataset, comprising the UV-Optical Telescope (UVOT), X-ray Telescope (XRT) and BAT data. In addition, we employed the Konus-Wind high energy data as a valuable extension at gamma-ray energies. The photometric SN signature is clearly visible in the UVOT u, b and v filters. The maximum emission is reached at ~ 13 (rest frame) days, and the whole bump resembles that of SN 2006aj, but lower in magnitude and with a shift in time of +2 d. A prebump in the v-band is also clearly visible, and this is the first time that such a feature is not observed achromatically in GRB-SNe. Its physical origin cannot be easily explained. The X-ray spectrum shows an intrinsic Hydrogen column density N_H,int = 7.4(+4.1 -3.6) X 10^20 / cm^2$, which is at the low end of the N_H,int, even considering just low redshift GRBs. The spectrum also features a thermal component, which is quite common in GRBs associated with SNe, but whose origin is still a matter of debate. Finally, the isotropic energy in the gamma-ray band, E_iso = 2.18(+0.63 -0.50) X 10^49 erg, is lower than those of cosmological GRBs. Combining this value with the peak energy in the same band, E_p=125(+141 -37) keV, implies that GRB 171205A is an outlier of the Amati relation, as are some other low redshift GRBs, and its emission mechanism should be different from that of canonical, farther away GRBs., Comment: 13 pages, 10 figures, A&A in press

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2018
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17. Transition from fireball to Poynting-flux-dominated outflow in the three-episode GRB 160625B

Author

Ronan Cunniffe, Sergey Bondar, Bing Zhang, R. Inasaridze, S. R. Oates, J. C. Tello, Lijing Shao, R. Aptekar, P.-H. T. Tam, A. Cwiek, Rumyantsev, P. Ferrero, Sokolov, A. Perkov, E. Klunko, O. Burhonov, A. J. Castro-Tirado, Lech Mankiewicz, Shashi B. Pandey, E. Katkova, R. Sanchez-Ramirez, R. Opiela, A. Castellon, Sergey Karpov, He Gao, Martin Jelínek, S. Jeong, Zi-Gao Dai, Qing-Wen Tang, Bin-Bin Zhang, Fu-Wen Zhang, Gregory Beskin, Ignacio de Gregorio Monsalvo, E. Ivanov, P. Minaev, Alexei Pozanenko, N. Orekhova, A. Kusakin, Sasyuk, Anton Biryukov, D. D. Frederiks, A. S. Moskvitin, Aleksander Filip Żarnecki, A. K. Zadrożny, M. D. Caballero-Garcia, T. A. Fatkhullin, S. R. Oats, Dmitry S. Svinkin, Xue-Feng Wu, Aleksander Filip Zarnecki, E. Mazaeva, A. F. Valeev, Il Han Park, A. Volnova, Y. D. Hu, X.-Y. Wang, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), European Commission, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (US), National Natural Science Foundation of China, China Scholarship Council, Russian Foundation for Basic Research, Russian Science Foundation, Leverhulme Trust, Government of South Korea, and Kazakh Government

Subjects
Physics, Brightness, Jet (fluid), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Synchrotron radiation, Astronomy, Flux, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Spectral component, 01 natural sciences, Stars, Luminosity, High-energy astrophysics, 0103 physical sciences, Ejecta, Gamma-ray burst, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics
Abstract

The ejecta composition is an open question in gamma-ray burst (GRB) physics . Some GRBs possess a quasi-thermal spectral component in the time-resolved spectral analysis , suggesting a hot fireball origin. Others show a featureless non-thermal spectrum known as the Band function , consistent with a synchrotron radiation origin and suggesting that the jet is Poynting-flux dominated at the central engine and probably in the emission region as well . There are also bursts showing a sub-dominant thermal component and a dominant synchrotron component , suggesting a probable hybrid jet composition . Here, we report an extraordinarily bright GRB 160625B, simultaneously observed in gamma-ray and optical wavelengths, whose prompt emission consists of three isolated episodes separated by long quiescent intervals, with the durations of each sub-burst being approximately 0.8 s, 35 s and 212 s, respectively. Its high brightness (with isotropic peak luminosity L ≈ 4 × 10 erg s) allows us to conduct detailed time-resolved spectral analysis in each episode, from precursor to main burst and to extended emission. The spectral properties of the first two sub-bursts are distinctly different, allowing us to observe the transition from thermal to non-thermal radiation between well-separated emission episodes within a single GRB. Such a transition is a clear indication of the change of jet composition from a fireball to a Poynting-flux-dominated jet., B.-B.Z. thanks Y.-Z. Fan, Y.-Z. Wang, H. Wang, K. D. Alexander and D. Lazzati for helpful discussions. We are grateful to K. Hurley, I. Mitrofanov, A. Sanin, M. Litvak and W. Boynton for the use of Mars Odyssey data in the triangulation. We acknowledge the use of the public data from the Swift and Fermi data archives. B.-B. Z. and A.J. C.-T. acknowledge support from the Spanish Ministry Projects AYA2012-39727-C03-01 and AYA2015-71718-R. Part of this work made use of B.-B.Z.'s personal Interactive Data Language (IDL) code library ZBBIDL and personal Python library ZBBPY. The computation resources used in this work are owned by Scientist Support LLC. B.Z. acknowledges NASA NNX14AF85G and NNX15AK85G for support. Z. G. D. acknowledges the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC) (grant 11573014). Y.-D. H. acknowledges support by China Scholarships Council (grant 201406660015). Mini-MegaTORTORA belongs to Kazan Federal University, and the work is performed according to the Russian Government Program of Competitive Growth of Kazan Federal University. A. P., E.M., P. M. and A.V. are grateful to the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (grant 17-02-01388) for partial support. A. P. and S.B.P. acknowledge joint BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) grant RFBR 17-52-80139 and 388-ProFChEAP for partial support. R. I. is grateful to grant RUSTAVELI FR/379/6300/ 14 for partial support. Observations on Mini-MegaTORTORA are supported by the Russian Science Foundation (grant 14-50-00043). A.V.F. and A. M. thank the Russian Science Foundation (grant 14-50-00043). L.M. and A.F.Z. acknowledge support from INTA-CEDEA ESAt personnel hosting the Pi of the Sky facility at the BOOTES-1 station. H. G. and X.-Y.W. acknowledge NSFC (grants 11603003 and 11625312, respectively). Z. G. D., X.-F. W., B.Z., X.-Y. W.,L.S. and F.-W.Z. are also supported by the 973 program (grant 2014CB845800). F.-W.Z. is also supported in part by the NSFC (grants U1331101 and 11163003), the Guangxi Natural Science Foundation (grant 2013GXNSFAA019002) and the project of outstanding young teachers' training in higher education institutions of Guangxi. L.S. acknowledges support by the NSFC (grant 11103083) and the Joint NSFC-ISF Research Program (grant 11361140349). S.O. acknowledges the support of the Leverhulme Trust. S.J. acknowledges support from Korea Basic Science Research Program through NRF-2014R1A6A3A03057484 and NRF-2015R1D1A4A01020961, and I. H. P. through NRF-2015R1A2A1A01006870 and NRF-2015R1A2A1A15055344. R. A., D. F. and D. S. acknowledge support from RSF (grant 17-12-01378). A. K. acknowledges the Science and Education Ministry of Kazakhstan (grant 0075/GF4).

Published
2018

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

Author

Philipp Oleynik, Thomas L. Cline, A. Lysenko, V. D. Pal'shin, S. Golenetskii, D. D. Frederiks, Dmitry S. Svinkin, Kevin Hurley, M. Ulanov, A. Tsvetkova, and R. Aptekar

Subjects
Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Jet (fluid), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, media_common.quotation_subject, Horizon, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Mode (statistics), FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Universe, Redshift, Luminosity, Space and Planetary Science, 0103 physical sciences, Range (statistics), Formation rate, Gamma-ray burst, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Energy (signal processing), media_common
Abstract

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) experiment during the period from 1997 February to 2016 June. The sample consists of 150 GRBs (including twelve short/hard bursts) and represents the largest set of cosmological GRBs studied to date over a broad energy band. From the temporal and spectral analyses of the sample, we provide the burst durations, the spectral lags, the results of spectral fits with two model functions, the total energy fluences, and the peak energy fluxes. Based on the GRB redshifts, which span the range 0.1, Accepted for publication in ApJ; 65 pages, 15 figures, 8 tables

Published
2017

19. The maximum isotropic energy of gamma-ray bursts

Author

D. D. Frederiks, A. Tsvetkova, Frédéric Daigne, J.-P. Dezalay, Y. Zolnierowski, Alain Klotz, Jean-Luc Atteia, Damien Turpin, Robert Mochkovitch, V. Heussaff, Laboratoire d'Annecy de Physique des Particules (LAPP), and Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Subjects
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, Range (particle radiation), [PHYS.ASTR.HE]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena [astro-ph.HE], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Solid angle, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Observable universe, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, Power law, Redshift, Astrophysical jet, Space and Planetary Science, 0103 physical sciences, Gamma-ray burst, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Abstract

The most energetic gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are remarkable sources releasing huge amounts of energy on short timescales. Their prompt emission, which usually lasts few seconds, is so bright that it is visible across the whole observable universe. Studying these extreme events may provide clues on the nature of GRB progenitors and on the physical processes at work in relativistic jets. In this paper, we study the bright end of the isotropic energy distribution of long GRBs. We use two samples of long GRBs with redshift detected by Fermi/GBM or Konus-Wind, two instruments which measure the spectral shape and the energetics of the prompt emission accurately. We focus on GRBs within a range of redshifts z = 1 -- 5, a volume that contains a large number of energetic GRBs, and we propose a simple method to reconstruct the bright end of the GRB energy distribution from the observed one. We find that the GRB energy distribution cannot be described by a simple power law but requires a strong cutoff above $1-3 \times 10^{54}$ erg. We attribute this feature to an intrinsic limit on the energy per unit of solid angle radiated by gamma-ray bursts., Revised version after correcting an error in the computation of the horizon of Konus GRBs (Table 3). Changes in the text are marked in bold. The main result is not affected

Published
2017

20. The InterPlanetary Network Supplement to the Second Fermi GBM Catalog of Cosmic Gamma-Ray Bursts

Author

K. Hurley, R. L. Aptekar, S. V. Golenetskii, D. D. Frederiks, D. S. Svinkin, V. D. Pal’shin, M. S. Briggs, C. Meegan, V. Connaughton, J. Goldsten, W. Boynton, C. Fellows, K. Harshman, I. G. Mitrofanov, D. V. Golovin, A. S. Kozyrev, M. L. Litvak, A. B. Sanin, A. Rau, A. von Kienlin, X. Zhang, K. Yamaoka, Y. Fukazawa, M. Ohno, M. Tashiro, Y. Terada, S. Barthelmy, T. Cline, N. Gehrels, J. Cummings, H. A. Krimm, D. M. Smith, E. Del Monte, M. Feroci, M. Marisaldi, ITA, USA, DEU, JPN, NOR, and RUS

Subjects
Space and Planetary Science, Astronomy and Astrophysics
Abstract

InterPlanetary Network (IPN) data are presented for the gamma-ray bursts in the second Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor (GBM) catalog. Of the 462 bursts in that catalog between 2010 July 12 and 2012 July 11, 428, or 93%, were observed by at least 1 other instrument in the 9-spacecraft IPN. Of the 428, the localizations of 165 could be improved by triangulation. For these bursts, triangulation gives one or more annuli whose half-widths vary between about 2.′3° and 16°, depending on the peak flux, fluence, time history, arrival direction, and the distance between the spacecraft. We compare the IPN localizations with the GBM 1σ, 2σ, and 3σ error contours and find good agreement between them. The IPN 3σ error boxes have areas between about 8 square arcminutes and 380 square degrees, and are an average of 2500 times smaller than the corresponding GBM 3σ localizations. We identify four bursts in the IPN/GBM sample whose origins were given as “uncertain,” but may in fact be cosmic. This leads to an estimate of over 99% completeness for the GBM catalog.

Published
2017

21. GRB 051008: a long, spectrally hard dust-obscured GRB in a Lyman-break galaxy at z ≈ 2.8★

Author

A. Pozanenko, O. A. Burkhonov, Dmitry S. Svinkin, P. Yu. Minaev, M. Ulanov, B. Stecklum, Javier Gorosabel, D. D. Frederiks, A. de Ugarte Postigo, V. V. Biryukov, Vasilij Rumyantsev, A. J. Castro-Tirado, S. Golenetskii, D. A. Kann, P. Ferrero, A. Tsvetkova, A. Volnova, Daniel A. Perley, V. M. Loznikov, and S. Klose

Subjects
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Extinction (astronomy), FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Galaxy, Redshift, Afterglow, Space and Planetary Science, QD, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Formation rate, Gamma-ray burst, Lyman-break galaxy, QC, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, QB
Abstract

We present observations of the dark Gamma-Ray Burst GRB 051008 provided by Swift/BAT, Swift/XRT, Konus-WIND, INTEGRAL/SPI-ACS in the high-energy domain and the Shajn, Swift/UVOT, Tautenburg, NOT, Gemini and Keck I telescopes in the optical and near-infrared bands. The burst was detected only in gamma- and X-rays and neither a prompt optical nor a radio afterglow were detected down to deep limits. We identified the host galaxy of the burst, which is a typical Lyman-break Galaxy (LBG) with R-magnitude of 24.06 +/- 0.10. A redshift of the galaxy of z = 2.77 (-0.20,+0.15) is measured photometrically due to the presence of a clear, strong Lyman-break feature. The host galaxy is a small starburst galaxy with moderate intrinsic extinction (A_V = 0.3 mag) and has a SFR of ~ 60 M_Sun / yr typical for LBGs. It is one of the few cases where a GRB host has been found to be a classical Lyman-break galaxy. Using the redshift we estimate the isotropic-equivalent radiated energy of the burst to be E_iso = (1.15 +/- 0.20) x 10^54 erg. We also provide evidence in favour of the hypothesis that the darkness of GRB 051008 is due to local absorption resulting from a dense circumburst medium., 15 pages, 8 figures Accepted to MNRAS

Published
2014

22. Classification of gamma-ray bursts observed with Konus-Wind

Author

A. E. Tsvetkova, D. Svinkin, R. L. Aptekar, M. Ulanov, S. Golenetskii, and D. D. Frederiks

Subjects
Physics, History, Astrophysics, Gamma-ray burst, Computer Science Applications, Education
Abstract

We present the analysis of duration and spectral-hardness distributions of ∼ 3000 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) detected by Konus-Wind (KW) between November 1994 and early February 2019. We analyse burst T 50 and T 90 durations (the time intervals which contain the central 50% to 90% of the total burst count fluence, respectively) and argue that T 50 is more robust duration measure than T 90. Using a two log-normal component fit to the T 50 distribution we pick the boundary between the overlapping classes of short-duration and long-duration bursts to be at T 50 = 0.7 s, which implies the fraction of short GRBs (T 50 < 0.7 s) to be ∼ 17%. Using Gaussian mixture model fits we show that hardness-duration distribution can be well described by three Gaussian components, with two components corresponding to short/hard and long/soft GRB population, and the third component covering the softest GRBs with intermediate durations. This classification suggests that ∼ 14% KW GRBs are from short/hard population. Finally we discuss a possibility to discriminate between physically distinct Type I and Type II GRBs with the help of hardness-duration distribution.

Published
2019

23. Konus-UF and Helicon-I gamma-ray burst experiments

Author

D. D. Frederiks, A. E. Tsvetkova, D. Svinkin, R. L. Aptekar, M. Ulanov, and S. Golenetskii

Subjects
Nuclear physics, Physics, History, Helicon, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Physics::Space Physics, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Gamma-ray burst, Computer Science Applications, Education
Abstract

We present Konus-UF and Helicon-I, the future space-based experiments designed to study temporal and spectral characteristics of gamma-ray bursts, solar flares, soft gamma-repeater bursts, and other transient phenomena over a wide energy range from 10 keV to 15 MeV. The instruments will be mounted onboard the World Space Observatory–Ultraviolet (WSO-UV) and the InterhelioProbe spacecraft, respectively. The spacecraft orbits are going to be far from the Earth’s magnetosphere, which enables nearly uninterrupted observations of the entire sky under stable background conditions.

Published
2019

24. Gravitational lensing probability for the Konus-Wind gamma-ray bursts detected in the triggered mode

Author

D. D. Frederiks, A. E. Tsvetkova, and D. Svinkin

Subjects
Physics, History, Gravitational lens, Mode (statistics), Astrophysics, Gamma-ray burst, Computer Science Applications, Education
Abstract

Although half a century has passed since the discovery of Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), there is no evidence for any strongly lensed event. Using GRB luminosity function and GRB formation rate estimates for the Konus-Wind burst sample with known redshifts, and a Singular Isothermal Sphere as a gravitational lens model, we predict the detection rate of both GRB images being ≈ 0.02–0.05 events per year. The result is consistent with the non-detection of lensed bursts in the KW triggered GRB sample.

Published
2019

25. Gamma-Ray Emission from the Impulsive Phase of the 2017 September 6 X9.3 Flare

Author

Gregory D. Fleishman, A. Lysenko, D. D. Frederiks, Sergey Anfinogentov, and Dmitry S. Svinkin

Subjects
Physics, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Solar flare, Phase (waves), Gamma ray, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, Space and Planetary Science, law, 0103 physical sciences, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Flare
Published
2019

26. A Search for Gravitationally Lensed Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Data of the Interplanetary Network and Konus-Wind

Author

M. L. Litvak, William V. Boynton, A. B. Sanin, A. Lysenko, Dmitry S. Svinkin, A. A. Kokomov, Kevin Hurley, A. Kozlova, Dmitry Golovin, M. Ulanov, R. Aptekar, T. L. Cline, I. G. Mitrofanov, A. Tsvetkova, K. Harshman, S. Golenetskii, A. von Kienlin, D. D. Frederiks, Arne Rau, C. Fellows, R. D. Starr, and Xiao-Ling Zhang

Subjects
Physics, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Space and Planetary Science, 0103 physical sciences, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Interplanetary spaceflight, Gamma-ray burst, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Abstract

NASA's 2014 Astrophysics Data Analysis Program [NNX15AE60G]; RFBR [18-02-00062]; Federal Agency for Scientific Organizations "Exploration" [AAAA-A18-118012290370-6]

Published
2019

27. Investigation of Primordial Black Hole Bursts using Interplanetary Network Gamma-ray Bursts

Author

Kazutaka Yamaoka, T. N. Ukwatta, John O. Goldsten, A. S. Kozyrev, R. L. Aptekar, Valerie Connaughton, Kevin Hurley, Hans A. Krimm, Jane H. MacGibbon, Neil Gehrels, William V. Boynton, Valentin Pal'shin, D. D. Frederiks, A. von Kienlin, Dmitry S. Svinkin, N. Ohmori, Marco Feroci, C. Guidorzi, Filippo Frontera, T. L. Cline, J. M. McTiernan, Arne Rau, Masanori Ohno, S. V. Golenetskii, and Xiao-Ling Zhang

Subjects
Physics, Novel technique, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), gamma-ray bursts: general, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Evaporation rate, black hole physics, primordial black holes, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Primordial black hole, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, NO, primordial black holes, black hole physics, gamma-ray bursts: general, Space and Planetary Science, 0103 physical sciences, Gamma-ray burst, Interplanetary spaceflight, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Short duration, Phenomenology (particle physics)
Abstract

The detection of a gamma-ray burst (GRB) in the solar neighborhood would have very important implications for GRB phenomenology. The leading theories for cosmological GRBs would not be able to explain such events. The final bursts of evaporating Primordial Black Holes (PBHs), however, would be a natural explanation for local GRBs. We present a novel technique that can constrain the distance to gamma-ray bursts using detections from widely separated, non-imaging spacecraft. This method can determine the actual distance to the burst if it is local. We applied this method to constrain distances to a sample of 36 short duration GRBs detected by the Interplanetary Network (IPN) that show observational properties that are expected from PBH evaporations. These bursts have minimum possible distances in the 10^13-10^18 cm (7-10^5 AU) range, consistent with the expected PBH energetics and with a possible origin in the solar neighborhood, although none of the bursts can be unambiguously demonstrated to be local. Assuming these bursts are real PBH events, we estimate lower limits on the PBH burst evaporation rate in the solar neighborhood., Accepted to the Astrophysical Journal (9 Figures, 3 Tables)

Published
2015

28. Publisher Correction: Transition from fireball to Poynting-flux-dominated outflow in the three-episode GRB 160625B

Author

Ronan Cunniffe, S. Jeong, P.-H. T. Tam, E. Katkova, E. Klunko, O. Burhonov, E. Mazaeva, Lijing Shao, R. Sanchez-Ramirez, Qing-Wen Tang, Bin-Bin Zhang, R. Inasaridze, Il Han Park, A. Castellon, Anton Biryukov, E. Ivanov, P. Minaev, Aleksander Filip Żarnecki, A. F. Valeev, A. J. Castro-Tirado, S. R. Oates, T. A. Fatkhullin, Zi-Gao Dai, A. K. Zadrożny, D. D. Frederiks, Bing Zhang, A. Volnova, V. Sasyuk, M. D. Caballero-Garcia, A. Kusakin, Vasilij Rumyantsev, Xue-Feng Wu, A. S. Moskvitin, He Gao, R. Opiela, R. Aptekar, Sergey Bondar, A. Perkov, Shashi B. Pandey, Fu-Wen Zhang, Y. D. Hu, Gregory Beskin, J. C. Tello, A. Cwiek, Sergey Karpov, V. V. Sokolov, F. K. Peng, N. Orekhova, Dmitry S. Svinkin, Lech Mankiewicz, Alexei Pozanenko, Martin Jelínek, P. Ferrero, and X.-Y. Wang

Subjects
Physics, Poynting vector, Flux, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Outflow, Astrophysics, Gamma-ray burst
Abstract

In the version of this Letter originally published, the letter i was mistakenly omitted from the surname of the author R. Sanchez-Ramirez. This has now been corrected.

Published
2018

29. Discovery of a new soft gamma repeater: SGR J0418 + 5729

Author

Michael S. Briggs, Christopher R. Gelino, Ersin Gogus, E. P. Mazets, P. Oleynik, Scott Barthelmy, David Palmer, Dmitry S. Svinkin, S. V. Golenetskii, Valerie Connaughton, Colleen A. Wilson-Hodge, D. D. Frederiks, Dawn M. Gelino, Hans A. Krimm, Jay Cummings, Charles A. Meegan, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, Paul M. Woods, Mark H. Finger, A. J. van der Horst, Yuki Kaneko, Valentin Pal'shin, Anna L. Watts, Stefanie Wachter, M. van der Klis, Chryssa Kouveliotou, Jonathan Granot, Julie McEnery, Neil Gehrels, A. von Kienlin, Kevin Hurley, M. Ulanov, Asaf Pe'er, R. L. Aptekar, and High Energy Astrophys. & Astropart. Phys (API, FNWI)

Subjects
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, education.field_of_study, Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Population, Soft gamma repeater, Perseus Arm, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Magnetar, Galaxy, Spitzer Space Telescope, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, education, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Abstract

On 2009 June 5, the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) onboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope triggered on two short, and relatively dim bursts with spectral properties similar to Soft Gamma Repeater (SGR) bursts. Independent localizations of the bursts by triangulation with the Konus-RF and with the Swift satellite, confirmed their origin from the same, previously unknown, source. The subsequent discovery of X-ray pulsations with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE), confirmed the magnetar nature of the new source, SGR J0418+5729. We describe here the Fermi/GBM observations, the discovery and the localization of this new SGR, and our infrared and Chandra X-ray observations. We also present a detailed temporal and spectral study of the two GBM bursts. SGR J0418+5729 is the second source discovered in the same region of the sky in the last year, the other one being SGR J0501+4516. Both sources lie in the direction of the galactic anti-center and presumably at the nearby distance of ~2 kpc (assuming they reside in the Perseus arm of our galaxy). The near-threshold GBM detection of bursts from SGR J0418+5729 suggests that there may be more such dim SGRs throughout our galaxy, possibly exceeding the population of bright SGRs. Finally, using sample statistics, we conclude that the implications of the new SGR discovery on the number of observable active magnetars in our galaxy at any given time is, 6 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables; accepted for publication in ApJL on 2010 January 8

Published
2010

30. A Giant Flare from a Soft Gamma Repeater in the Andromeda Galaxy (M31)

Author

Valentin Pal'shin, S. V. Golenetskii, R. L. Aptekar, A. von Kienlin, D. D. Frederiks, E. P. Mazets, Kevin Hurley, John O. Goldsten, and T. L. Cline

Subjects
Physics, Andromeda Galaxy, Astrophysics (astro-ph), Soft gamma repeater, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Light curve, Galaxy, Luminosity, law.invention, Space and Planetary Science, law, Gamma-ray burst, Energy (signal processing), Flare
Abstract

The light curve, energy spectra, energetics, and IPN localization of an exceedingly intense short duration hard spectrum burst, GRB 070201, obtained from Konus-Wind, INTEGRAL (SPI-ACS), and MESSENGER data are presented. The total fluence of the burst and the peak flux are $S = 2.00_{-0.26}^{+0.10} \times 10^{-5}$ erg cm$^{-2}$ and $F_{max} = 1.61_{-0.50}^{+0.29} \times 10^{-3}$ erg cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$. The IPN error box has an area of 446 square arcminutes and covers the peripheral part of the M31 galaxy. Assuming that the source of the burst is indeed in M31 at a distance of 0.78 Mpc, the measured values of the fluence $S$ and maximum flux $F_{max}$ correspond to a total energy of $Q = 1.5 \times 10^{45}$ erg, and a maximum luminosity $L = 1.2 \times 10^{47}$ erg s$^{-1}$. These data are in good agreement with the corresponding characteristics of the previously observed giant flares from other soft gamma repeaters. The evidence for the identification of this event as a giant flare from a soft gamma repeater in the M31 galaxy is presented., Comment: 15 pages, 5 figures, submitted to ApJ

Published
2008

31. An Extended Burst Tail from SGR 1900+14 with a Thermal X‐Ray Spectrum

Author

Johnathan E. Goupell, Jean H. Swank, Kevin Hurley, D. D. Frederiks, S. V. Golenetskii, Chryssa Kouveliotou, Geoffrey T. Lenters, P. M. Woods, and Ersin Gogus

Subjects
Physics, Astrophysics (astro-ph), Soft gamma repeater, X-ray, FOS: Physical sciences, Flux, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, law.invention, Space and Planetary Science, law, Thermal, Flare
Abstract

The Soft Gamma Repeater, SGR 1900+14, entered a new phase of activity in April 2001 initiated by the intermediate flare recorded on April 18. Ten days following this flare, we discovered an abrupt increase in the source flux between consecutive RXTE orbits. This X-ray flux excess decayed over the next several minutes and was subsequently linked to a high fluence burst from SGR 1900+14 recorded by other spacecraft (Ulysses and KONUS) while the SGR was Earth-occulted for RXTE. We present here spectral and temporal analysis of both the burst of 28 April and the long X-ray tail following it. We find strong evidence of an exclusively thermal X-ray tail in this event and bring this evidence to bear on other bursts and flares from SGR 1900+14 which have shown extended X-ray excesses (e.g. 1998 August 29). We include in this comparison a discussion of the physical origins of SGR bursts and extended X-ray tails., Comment: 27 pages, 13 figures, ApJ submission

Published
2003

32. A search for giant flares from soft gamma-repeaters in nearby galaxies in the Konus-Wind short burst sample

Author

Dmitry S. Svinkin, D. D. Frederiks, S. Golenetskii, R. Aptekar, and Kevin Hurley

Subjects
Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Gamma ray, Astronomy, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Magnetar, Energy budget, Galaxy, law.invention, Supernova, Space and Planetary Science, law, Interplanetary spaceflight, Gamma-ray burst, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Flare
Abstract

The knowledge of the rate of soft gamma-ray repeater (SGR) giant flares is important for understanding the giant flare mechanism and the SGR energy budget in the framework of the magnetar model. We estimate the upper limit to the rate using the results of an extensive search for extragalactic soft gamma-repeater giant flares (GFs) among 140 short gamma-ray bursts detected between 1994 and 2010 by Konus-Wind using InterPlanetary Network (IPN) localizations and temporal parameters. We show that Konus-Wind and the IPN are capable of detecting GFs with energies of 2.3x10^46 erg (which is the energy of the GF from SGR 1806-20 assuming a distance of 15 kpc) at distances of up to about 30 Mpc and GFs with energies of, 6 pages, 3 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

Published
2014

33. Konus-Wind and Helicon-Coronas-F Observations of Solar Flares

Author

Yu. E. Charikov, V. Pal'shin, R. L. Aptekar, D. D. Frederiks, M. Ulanov, Z. Ya. Sokolova, S. V. Golenetskii, A. A. Kokomov, A. Tsvetkova, and Dmitry S. Svinkin

Subjects
Physics, Geophysics, Helicon, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Solar flare, Space and Planetary Science, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
Abstract

Results of solar flare observations obtained in the Konus-Wind experiment from November, 1994 to December, 2013 and in the Helicon Coronas-F experiment during its operation from 2001 to 2005, are presented. For the periods indicated Konus-Wind detected in the trigger mode 834 solar flares, and Helicon-Coronas-F detected more than 300 solar flares. A description of the instruments and data processing techniques are given. As an example, the analysis of the spectral evolution of the flares SOL2012-11-08T02:19 (M 1.7) and SOL2002-03-10T01:34 (C5.1) is made with the Konus-Wind data and the flare SOL2003-10-26T06:11 (X1.2) is analyzed in the 2.223 MeV deuterium line with the Helicon-Coronas-F data., Comment: Published version. A list of the Konus-Wind solar flare triggers and figures of their time profiles are available at http://www.ioffe.ru/LEA/Solar/

Published
2014
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34. Search for Gravitational Waves Associated with gamma-ray Bursts Detected by the Interplanetary Network

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Robert Stone, A. Di Virgilio, A. R. Williamson, R. P. Croce, Namjun Kim, Xing-Jiang Zhu, S. T. Countryman, V. Necula, I. Santiago-Prieto, Hee-Suk Cho, Heinz-Bernd Eggenstein, A. K. Poteomkin, Tania Regimbau, Chiara M. F. Mingarelli, V. V. Frolov, Riccardo Bassiri, J. B. Kanner, Oscar Reula, F. Carbognani, M. M. Hanke, W. Ortega, H. Fehrmann, S. B. Anderson, C. Maglione, Ruslan Vaulin, E. O. Lebigot, E. Katsavounidis, Ludovico Carbone, P. Couvares, Benno Willke, Jean-Luc Atteia, E. Maros, Stanislav Babak, M. Constancio, Duncan A. Brown, Hans A. Krimm, David B. Tanner, F. Jiménez-Forteza, H. Radkins, Christian Gräf, S. Walsh, Alessandra Buonanno, M. R. Smith, N. Letendre, Jeonghoon Ha, S. P. Vyachanin, T. P. Downes, E. Dominguez, F. Brückner, M. Edwards, B. J. J. Slagmolen, D. Fazi, M. Brinkmann, T. Etzel, H. P. Daveloza, H. Dereli, K. Siellez, N. Mangini, P. Thomas, Benjamin William Allen, Karsten Danzmann, C. Aulbert, R. Cavalieri, M. Pedraza, Stefaan Franco, Maria Alessandra Papa, F. Cavalier, G. Vedovato, D. B. Kozak, C. Vorvick, T. Williams, David Coward, L. Bonelli, C. S. Unnikrishnan, S. H. Huttner, Piotr Jaranowski, Florent Robinet, M. Colombini, Roy Williams, C. J. Guido, Jonathan F. Stebbins, A. Basti, R. Bonnand, Collin Capano, D. Hoske, G. Kang, Karoline Wiesner, Sourav Ghosh, Imre Bartos, A. Rocchi, G. Endroczi, Andrew Melatos, M. Lorenzini, A. Masserot, M. J. Lubinski, M. Punturo, Shane L. Larson, Leopoldo Milano, Slawomir Gras, G. Mazzolo, D. S. Rabeling, M. Factourovich, Ryan DeRosa, Valerie Connaughton, B. M. Levine, V. Quetschke, Bangalore Suryanarayana Sathyaprakash, E. Black, J.-P. Coulon, Martin M. Fejer, J. R. Smith, R. Bork, Z. Frei, S. M. Scott, G. Mendell, S. G. Gaonkar, Mark Hannam, C. Buy, Maik Frede, A. Di Lieto, D. B. Kelley, Jordan Camp, Zhihui Du, C. Osthelder, M. Ducrot, D. O. Bridges, Rebecca Fisher, Prayush Kumar, K. E. Gushwa, G. P. Newton, M. Fyffe, Gabriela Gonzalez, D. Feldbaum, F. Cleva, T. B. Edo, V. D. Pal'Shin, M. A. Bizouard, V. Sequino, J. Betzwieser, Antoine Heidmann, C. C. Yancey, Haixing Miao, S. L. Danilishin, I. Kowalska, Rocco Romano, Markus A. Wimmer, John D. Scott, P. Leaci, A. Colla, Rajesh Kumar, Vladimir B. Braginsky, H. Vahlbruch, G. Bogaert, M. Shaltev, Rosa Poggiani, O. Bock, P. J. Sutton, C. C. Wipf, Alex B. Nielsen, J. H. Romie, J.-D. Fournier, Philip F. Hopkins, A. Mytidis, M. Born, K. Mailand, D. L. Kinzel, R. A. Mercer, W. G. Anderson, G. Cella, Peter Fritschel, Denis Martynov, Howard Pan, Aaron Buikema, R. Mittleman, István Rácz, K. L. Dooley, K. Riles, J. Y. Vinet, F. Frasconi, H. Overmier, Giacomo Ciani, A. Mullavey, D. Nolting, G. Manca, M. Weinert, S. J. Chamberlin, M. Vasúth, L. Cunningham, C. R. Ramet, R. Flaminio, S. Farinon, Lisa Barsotti, E. J. King, I. Fiori, M. Agathos, S. R. Morriss, N. A. Robertson, Q. Chu, B. P. Abbott, E. K. Gustafson, D. E. Clark, Kipp Cannon, M. Steinke, A. Staley, Nelson Christensen, L. Pinard, I. M. Pinto, F. Fidecaro, G. M. Guidi, M. J. Cowart, K. Loew, P. Raffai, R. Douglas, F. J. Raab, M. Pickenpack, J. Hanks, A. Pele, Sanichiro Yoshida, E. Lopez, D. Sellers, A. Kumar, Kevin M. Ryan, A. Moggi, H. J. Bulten, Nergis Mavalvala, M. Boer, Matthew Evans, Yukikatsu Terada, R. S. Ottens, Jerome Degallaix, R. J. G. Jonker, J. Meidam, David Jonathan Hofman, D. Hammer, A. von Kienlin, P. J. Lee, S. Vass, R. Vincent-Finley, Jesper Munch, M. Pichot, Federico Ferrini, Enrico Calloni, G. Traylor, Thomas Corbitt, W. Z. Korth, C. A. Costa, R. Inta, S. Klimenko, A. F. Brooks, Fabrice Matichard, Fumiko Kawazoe, Bala R. Iyer, Riccardo Sturani, L. R. Cominsky, C. Palomba, S. Privitera, S. S. Y. Chua, Roman Schnabel, J. E. Brau, A. A. van Veggel, L. Martinelli, B. Moe, Odylio D. Aguiar, I. W. Martin, B. C. Barish, M. S. Shahriar, S. Mitra, Scott Koranda, E. Saracco, C. Tomlinson, László Gondán, W. Kells, G. Vajente, Kevin Hurley, Graham Woan, H. Augustus, S. Ast, C. M. Reed, W. D. Vousden, C. I. Torrie, R. Gustafson, M. P. Thirugnanasambandam, D. Schuette, D. D. Frederiks, Katrin Dahl, Soma Mukherjee, Drew Keppel, C. Belczynski, Alberto Vecchio, M. A. Barton, Stuart Reid, G. Rajalakshmi, L. Matone, C-H. Lee, D. Barker, Efim A. Khazanov, G. Ballardin, Moritz Mehmet, M. Phelps, M. Branchesi, S. Kim, L. Prokhorov, H. R. Paris, Will M. Farr, J. Dickson, D. Hoak, D. Sentenac, C. L. Mueller, Patrick Brady, Peter Kalmus, Sebastien Biscans, S. Kaufer, Sascha Husa, N. Straniero, Rainer Weiss, D. R. Ingram, David Palmer, Nancy Aggarwal, Tobias Westphal, R. Aptekar, J. C. Batch, Jan Harms, A. S. Sengupta, J. Eichholz, Tobias Eberle, Meng Wang, D.B. DeBra, F. Ricci, R. W. P. Drever, W. W. Johnson, John A. Clark, Ben Farr, I. Yakushin, Jacob Scheuer, Viswanath Bavigadda, Christophe Collette, Ho-Gyu Lee, R. J. S. Greenhalgh, Gavin Davies, M. C. Araya, T. Prestegard, Bernard F. Schutz, Kip S. Thorne, T. Chalermsongsak, Alessandro Bertolini, P. Puppo, David Jones, D. Bersanetti, J. V. van Heijningen, K. A. Hodge, S. Sankar, P. G. Murray, D. Passuello, Thanh Vinh Nguyen, David Blair, S. Roddy, Eric Thrane, T. Kaur, L. Sammut, Tristan Briant, F. Clara, S. Recchia, A. Idrisy, Kevin M. McLin, V. Dolique, C. Baune, D. Ugolini, Sung-Po Chao, J. R. Leong, Fabien Kéfélian, J. H. Hough, C. Lazzaro, B. Hughey, E. C. Ferreira, Anton B. Ivanov, J. Bauchrowitz, M. Razzano, R. M. Magee, Patricia Schmidt, V. Brisson, Marilyne Andersen, S. Raja, S. E. Strigin, Marco Cavaglia, M. Lormand, C. Michel, A. Nitz, M. Tonelli, Larry R. Price, Sarah Caudill, R. De Rosa, Hyun Lee, N. Gehrels, T. Vo, J. Slutsky, R. Quitzow-James, R. Day, Jeffery Kline, Xuan Wang, J. S. Areeda, I. Leonor, V. Loriette, J. D. Lough, D. J. Stops, M. Prijatelj, Douglas R. Cook, R. Coyne, K. A. Thorne, C. Bradaschia, Li Ju, Daniel A. Shaddock, Michele Zanolin, T. Dal Canton, T. J. Massinger, R. Passaquieti, M. Huynh, V. Kalogera, J. Hanson, M. Damjanic, P. Oppermann, Marco Aurelio Diaz, Samaya Nissanke, Michele Vallisneri, M. Leonardi, R. 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Adhikari, Chad Hanna, R. Abbott, G. Tellez, K. Williams, C. Wilkinson, Andrew Lundgren, B. Machenschalk, F. Donovan, S. Caride, M. Landry, Lindy Blackburn, V. Kondrashov, L. Di Fiore, D. Amariutei, K. Holt, Andreas Freise, Vincenzo Pierro, Jessica McIver, Chunglee Kim, Paul D. Lasky, Gianpietro Cagnoli, S. D'Antonio, Sebastian Steinlechner, L. Kuo, H. Yamamoto, A. Effler, Paolo Addesso, K. D. Giardina, I. Di Palma, A. Cumming, A. Alemic, Y. Minenkov, F. Garufi, R. Burman, David Murphy, D. Lodhia, E. Genin, Joshua Yablon, G. May, M. Barsuglia, S. Chung, A. Conte, V. Sandberg, Ping Koy Lam, G. Debreczeni, Alexander Khalaidovski, F. Nocera, D. J. White, C. Zhao, H. Wittel, Kenneth G. Libbrecht, Chris Pankow, B. Mours, M. E. Normandin, Joshua L. Willis, J. Prasad, F. Vetrano, R. L. Savage, A. S. Bell, S. E. Dwyer, David Keitel, Matthew Pitkin, A. Perreca, G. Gemme, Elizabeth Harstad, A. K. Zadrożny, V. Boschi, E. Schreiber, P. T. Baker, A. Grant, J. Aasi, Jade Powell, V. 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Gamma ray burst, Astronomy, Interplanetary network, General Physics and Astronomy, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, Pacs number: 04.80.Nn, Pacs number: 07.05.Kf, gravitational wave, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, QC, QB, LIGO Scientific Collaboration, REPEATER, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, education.field_of_study, ORIGIN, [SDU.ASTR.HE]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena [astro-ph.HE], Settore FIS/01 - Fisica Sperimentale, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, gravitational waves, GRB, Interferometers, SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities, 3. Good health, ComputingMethodologies_DOCUMENTANDTEXTPROCESSING, [PHYS.GRQC]Physics [physics]/General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology [gr-qc], Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, GIANT FLARE, [PHYS.ASTR.HE]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena [astro-ph.HE], Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Gamma ray, Population, REDSHIFT, FOS: Physical sciences, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc), Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Gravitational waves, [ PHYS.GRQC ] Physics [physics]/General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology [gr-qc], Physics and Astronomy (all), Settore FIS/05 - Astronomia e Astrofisica, 0103 physical sciences, Binary star, education, SHORT-DURATION, UNUSUAL SUPERNOVA, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Gravitational wave, 5TH, [ PHYS.ASTR.HE ] Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena [astro-ph.HE], Redshift, LIGO, Neutron star, [ SDU.ASTR.HE ] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena [astro-ph.HE], Gamma-ray burst, GRB 051103
Abstract

We present the results of a search for gravitational waves associated with 223 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) detected by the InterPlanetary Network (IPN) in 2005-2010 during LIGO's fifth and sixth science runs and Virgo's first, second and third science runs. The IPN satellites provide accurate times of the bursts and sky localizations that vary significantly from degree scale to hundreds of square degrees. We search for both a well-modeled binary coalescence signal, the favored progenitor model for short GRBs, and for generic, unmodeled gravitational wave bursts. Both searches use the event time and sky localization to improve the gravitational-wave search sensitivity as compared to corresponding all-time, all-sky searches. We find no evidence of a gravitational-wave signal associated with any of the IPN GRBs in the sample, nor do we find evidence for a population of weak gravitational-wave signals associated with the GRBs. For all IPN-detected GRBs, for which a sufficient duration of quality gravitational-wave data is available, we place lower bounds on the distance to the source in accordance with an optimistic assumption of gravitational-wave emission energy of $10^{-2}M_{\odot}c^2$ at 150 Hz, and find a median of 13 Mpc. For the 27 short-hard GRBs we place 90% confidence exclusion distances to two source models: a binary neutron star coalescence, with a median distance of 12Mpc, or the coalescence of a neutron star and black hole, with a median distance of 22 Mpc. Finally, we combine this search with previously published results to provide a population statement for GRB searches in first-generation LIGO and Virgo gravitational-wave detectors, and a resulting examination of prospects for the advanced gravitational-wave detectors., 15 pages, 8 figures, 2 tables; for the science summary, see http://www.ligo.org/science/Publication-IPNS56VSR123grb/index.php

Published
2014

35. A Missing-Link in the Supernova-GRB Connection: The Case of SN 2012ap

Author

R. L. Aptekar, V. Savchenko, Masanori Ohno, Andrew MacFadyen, Dmitry S. Svinkin, John O. Goldsten, Maxim Litvak, D. D. Frederiks, Alak Ray, Kazutaka Yamaoka, Mario Hamuy, C. Fellows, I. G. Mitrofanov, David Palmer, Claes Fransson, Giuliano Pignata, Miriam I. Krauss, Andreas Brunthaler, Valerie Connaughton, Kevin Hurley, Jason A. Dittmann, Naveen Yadav, Makoto Tashiro, Yukikatsu Terada, Toshio Murakami, K. Harshman, S. V. Golenetskii, A. von Kienlin, Alicia M. Soderberg, Dan Milisavljevic, H. A. Krimm, Emily M. Levesque, Laura Chomiuk, William V. Boynton, Michael Bietenholz, Scott Barthelmy, Tadayuki Takahashi, T. L. Cline, Sayan Chakraborti, J. R. Cummings, D. Golovin, H. L. Enos, Yasushi Fukazawa, Arne Rau, Michael S. Briggs, Atish Kamble, Paolo A. Mazzali, X. Zhang, Anton Sanin, Elena Pian, Neil Gehrels, Raffaella Margutti, and Norbert Bartel

Subjects
Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), GRB 980425, supernovae: individual (SN 2012ap), Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, gamma-ray burst: general, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, shock waves, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, radiation mechanisms: non-thermal, Baryon, Supernova, Space and Planetary Science, techniques: interferometric, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Gamma-ray burst, Ejecta, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, QB, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

著者人数: 53名, Accepted: 2015-04-05, 資料番号: SA1150078000

Published
2014
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36. Konus Catalog of Soft Gamma Repeater Activity: 1978 to 2000

Author

R. Aptekar, S. Golenetskii, T. Cline, P. Butterworth, V. Pal'Shin, E. P. Mazets, D. D. Frederiks, and V. N. Il'Inskii

Subjects
Physics, On board, Spacecraft, Space and Planetary Science, business.industry, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, business
Abstract

Observational data on the bursting activity of all five known Soft Gamma Repeaters are presented. This information was obtained with Konus gamma-ray burst experiments on board Venera 11-14, Wind, and Kosmos-2326 spacecraft in the period from 1978 to 2000. These data on appearance rates, time histories, and energy spectra of repeated soft bursts obtained with similar instruments and collected together in a comparable form should be useful for further studies of SGRs. (available at this http URL).

Published
2001

37. Observations of a Possible New Soft Gamma Repeater, SGR 1801−23

Author

D. D. Frederiks, S. Golenetskii, T. Cline, Chryssa Kouveliotou, Kevin Hurley, E. P. Mazets, J. van Paradijs, and High Energy Astrophys. & Astropart. Phys (API, FNWI)

Subjects
Physics, Supernova, Degree (graph theory), Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics (astro-ph), Galactic Center, Soft gamma repeater, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Spectral line, Energy (signal processing)
Abstract

We report on two observations of a soft bursting source in 1997 June, whose time histories and energy spectra are consistent with those of the soft gamma repeaters. The source can only be localized to an ~3.8 degree long error box in the direction of the Galactic center, whose area is ~ 80 sq. arcmin. The location of the source, while not consistent with that of any of the four known soft repeaters, is consistent with those of several known and possible supernova remnants., 13 pages, 3 figures. Submitted to Ap. J. Letters

Published
2000

38. Where is SGR 1806-20?

Author

S. Golenetskii, T. Cline, J. van Paradijs, E. P. Mazets, Kevin Hurley, D. D. Frederiks, Chryssa Kouveliotou, and High Energy Astrophys. & Astropart. Phys (API, FNWI)

Subjects
Repeater, Physics, Luminous blue variable, Space and Planetary Science, Position (vector), Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Ellipse, Interplanetary spaceflight, Burst error, Supernova remnant, Displacement (vector)
Abstract

We apply a statistical method to derive very precise locations for soft gamma repeaters using data from the interplanetary network. We demonstrate the validity of the method by deriving a 600 arcsec^2 error ellipse for SGR1900+14 whose center agrees well with the VLA source position. We then apply it to SGR1806-20, for which we obtain a 230 arcsec^2 error ellipse, the smallest burst error box to date. We find that the most likely position of the source has a small but significant displacement from that of the non-thermal core of the radio supernova remnant G10.0-0.3, which was previously thought to be the position of the repeater. We propose a different model to explain the changing supernova remnant morphology and the positions of the luminous blue variable and the bursting source., Comment: 12 pages and 2 color figures, accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal Letters

Published
1999

39. THE SECOND KONUS- WIND CATALOG OF SHORT GAMMA-RAY BURSTS

Author

P. Oleynik, D. D. Frederiks, A. Tsvetkova, V. D. Pal'shin, S. Golenetskii, R. L. Aptekar, Kevin Hurley, M. Ulanov, T. L. Cline, and Dmitry S. Svinkin

Subjects
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Cosmic ray, Context (language use), Astrophysics, Spectral component, 01 natural sciences, Spectral line, Space and Planetary Science, 0103 physical sciences, Emission spectrum, Total energy, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Gamma-ray burst, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Energy (signal processing)
Abstract

In this catalog, we present the results of a systematic study of 295 short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) detected by Konus-Wind (KW) from 1994 to 2010. From the temporal and spectral analyses of the sample, we provide the burst durations, the spectral lags, the results of spectral fits with three model functions, the total energy fluences and the peak energy fluxes of the bursts. We discuss evidence found for an additional power-law spectral component and the presence of extended emission in a fraction of the KW short GRBs. Finally, we consider the results obtained in the context of the Type I (merger-origin) / Type II (collapsar-origin) classifications., Comment: Accepted to the Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series (7 Figures, 8 Tables)

Published
2016

40. Unusual Central Engine Activity in the Double Burst GRB 110709B

Author

Scott Barthelmy, Bing Zhang, Valerio D'Elia, Bin-Bin Zhang, Jay Cummings, S. Golenetskii, Neil Gehrels, Xiang-Yu Wang, Abraham D. Falcone, Giulia Stratta, Peter Mészáros, David N. Burrows, D. D. Frederiks, and Jay P. Norris

Subjects
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, Accretion (meteorology), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Afterglow, Spectral evolution, Space and Planetary Science, 0103 physical sciences, Gamma-ray burst, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics
Abstract

The double burst, GRB 110709B, triggered Swift/BAT twice at 21:32:39 UT and 21:43:45 UT, respectively, on 9 July 2011. This is the first time we observed a GRB with two BAT triggers. In this paper, we present simultaneous Swift and Konus-WIND observations of this unusual GRB and its afterglow. If the two events originated from the same physical progenitor, their different time-dependent spectral evolution suggests they must belong to different episodes of the central engine, which may be a magnetar-to-BH accretion system., 10 pages, 14 figures, 2 tables. ApJ accepted

Published
2011

41. Extended Tails From Sgr 1806-20 Bursts

Author

D. D. Frederiks, Yuki Kaneko, S. V. Golenetskii, Chryssa Kouveliotou, Valentin Pal'shin, Ersin Gogus, Carol Airhart, Mark H. Finger, and Peter M. Woods

Subjects
Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics, Radius, 01 natural sciences, Afterglow, law.invention, Neutron star, Stars, Amplitude, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, law, 0103 physical sciences, Black-body radiation, 010306 general physics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Flare
Abstract

In 2004, SGR 1806-20 underwent a period of intense and long-lasting burst activity that included the giant flare of 27 December 2004 -- the most intense extra-solar transient event ever detected at Earth. During this active episode, we routinely monitored the source with Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer and occasionally with Chandra. During the course of these observations, we identified two relatively bright bursts observed with Konus-Wind in hard X-rays that were followed by extended X-ray tails or afterglows lasting hundreds to thousands of seconds. Here, we present detailed spectral and temporal analysis of these events observed about 6 and 1.5 months prior to the 27 December 2004 Giant Flare. We find that both X-ray tails are consistent with a cooling blackbody of constant radius. These spectral results are qualitatively similar to those of the burst afterglows recorded from SGR 1900+14 and recently from SGR 1550-5418. However, the latter two sources exhibit significant increase in their pulsed X-ray intensity following the burst, while we did not detect any significant changes in the RMS pulsed amplitude during the SGR 1806-20 events. Moreover, we find that the fraction of energy partitioned to the burst (prompt energy release) and the tail (afterglow) differs by an order of magnitude between SGR 1900+14 and SGR 1806-20. We suggest that such differences can be attributed to differences in the crustal heating mechanism of these neutron stars combined with the geometry of the emitting areas., Comment: Accepted for publication in the ApJ

Published
2011

42. Spectral Cross-calibration of the Konus-Wind, the Suzaku/WAM, and the Swift/BAT Data using Gamma-Ray Bursts

Author

Kaori Onda, S. V. Golenetskii, W. H. Baumgartner, Goro Sato, Edward E. Fenimore, Valentin Pal'shin, Craig B. Markwardt, David Palmer, R. Aptekar, Kazutaka Yamaoka, Satoshi Sugita, T. N. Ukwatta, Scott Barthelmy, J. R. Cummings, Masanori Ohno, Makoto Tashiro, Neil Gehrels, A. M. Parsons, D. D. Frederiks, Hans A. Krimm, Michael Stamatikos, Jack Tueller, and Takanori Sakamoto

Subjects
Swift, Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), St petersburg, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Archaeology, Cross Calibration, Space and Planetary Science, Russian federation, Space Science, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Space research, National laboratory, computer, computer.programming_language
Abstract

We report on the spectral cross-calibration results of the Konus-Wind, the Suzaku/WAM, and the Swift/BAT instruments using simultaneously observed gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). This is the first attempt to use simultaneously observed GRBs as a spectral calibration source to understand systematic problems among the instruments. Based on these joint spectral fits, we find that 1) although a constant factor (a normalization factor) agrees within 20% among the instruments, the BAT constant factor shows a systematically smaller value by 10-20% compared to that of Konus-Wind, 2) there is a systematic trend that the low-energy photon index becomes steeper by 0.1-0.2 and Epeak becomes systematically higher by 10-20% when including the BAT data in the joint fits, and 3) the high-energy photon index agrees within 0.2 among the instruments. Our results show that cross-calibration based on joint spectral analysis is an important step to understanding the instrumental effects which could be affecting the scientific results from the GRB prompt emission data., Comment: 82 pages, 88 figures, accepted for publication in PASJ

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2010
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43. The Interplanetary Network Supplement to the BeppoSAX Gamma-Ray Burst Catalogs

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R. Starr, C. Wigger, D. D. Frederiks, Jean-Luc Atteia, I. G. Mitrofanov, C. Barraud, K. Harshman, Wojtek Hajdas, Filippo Frontera, R. L. Aptekar, Robert E. Gold, T. McClanahan, Kevin Hurley, E. P. Mazets, F. Rossi, David M. Smith, William V. Boynton, Valentin Pal'shin, Maxim Litvak, S. V. Golenetskii, John O. Goldsten, J. Trombka, A. S. Kozyrev, Enrico Montanari, Michel Boer, T. L. Cline, D.V. Golovin, Roland Vanderspek, C. Guidorzi, C. Fellows, Anton Sanin, Marco Feroci, A. Pelangeon, and George R. Ricker

Subjects
Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), COSMIC cancer database, astronomical databases, catalogs, gamma-ray burst, Spacecraft, business.industry, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astronomy, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, Physics::Space Physics, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, business, Gamma-ray burst, Interplanetary spaceflight
Abstract

Between 1996 July and 2002 April, one or more spacecraft of the interplanetary network detected 787 cosmic gamma-ray bursts that were also detected by the Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor and/or Wide-Field X-Ray Camera experiments aboard the BeppoSAX spacecraft. During this period, the network consisted of up to six spacecraft, and using triangulation, the localizations of 475 bursts were obtained. We present the localization data for these events., Comment: 89 pages, 3 figures. Submitted to the Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series

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2010
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44. Konus-Wind observations of the new soft gamma-ray repeater SGR 0501+4516

Author

R. L. Aptekar, S. V. Golenetskii, Valentin Pal'shin, D. D. Frederiks, T. L. Cline, and E. P. Mazets

Subjects
Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Galactic anticenter, Gamma ray, Bremsstrahlung, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Luminosity, Stars, Pulsar, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Supernova remnant, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Abstract

In 2008 August, the new soft gamma-ray repeater SGR 0501+4516 was discovered by Swift. The source was soon confirmed by several groups in space- and ground-based multi-wavelength observations. In this letter we report the analysis of five short bursts from the recently discovered SGR, detected with Konus-Wind gamma-ray burst spectrometer. Properties of the time histories of the observed events, as well as results of multi-channel spectral analysis, both in the 20--300 keV energy range, show, that the source exhibits itself as a typical SGR. The bursts durations are, 7 pages, 2 tables, 3 figures, ApJ Letters (accepted)

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2009
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45. Gamma-ray burst observations with Konus-B on Granat spacecraft

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V. N. Panov, E. P. Mazets, Yu. A. Gur'yan, R. L. Aptekar, D. D. Frederiks, T. V. Kharitonova, L. O. Sheshin, Z. Ya. Sokolova, I. V. Dementyev, S. Golenetskii, and V. N. Ilyinskii

Subjects
Physics, Atmospheric Science, Spacecraft, Solar flare, business.industry, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Granat, Aerospace Engineering, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Spectral line, Geophysics, Space and Planetary Science, Scintillation counter, General Earth and Planetary Sciences, Spectral energy distribution, Emission spectrum, Gamma-ray burst, business
Abstract

The results of gamma-ray burst observations made in the 10 keV - 8 MeV range with Konus-B instrument on Granat spacecraft are presented. 19 gamma-ray bursts and 60 solar flares have been measured altogether in 27 days at a sensitivity level of 5×10−8 - 5×10−7 erg/cm2. The fast spectral variability of bursts and the presence of features in their spectra in the form of absorption and emission lines are confirmed.

Published
1991

46. A giant periodic flare from the soft γ-ray repeater SGR1900+14

Author

J. McTiernan, R. L. Aptekar, D. D. Frederiks, J. Trombka, V. N. Il’inskii, S. Golenetskii, T. Cline, P. Butterworth, F. E. Marshall, E. P. Mazets, S. D. Barthelmy, Robert E. Gold, D. M. Palmer, and Kevin Hurley

Subjects
Physics, Multidisciplinary, COSMIC cancer database, Magnetic energy, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics (astro-ph), Soft gamma repeater, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Spectral line, law.invention, Neutron star, Supernova, law, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Event (particle physics), Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Flare
Abstract

Soft gamma repeaters are high-energy transient sources associated with neutron stars in young supernova remnants. They emit sporadic, short (~ 0.1 s) bursts with soft energy spectra during periods of intense activity. The event of March 5, 1979 was the most intense and the only clearly periodic one to date. Here we report on an even more intense burst on August 27, 1998, from a different soft gamma repeater, which displayed a hard energy spectrum at its peak, and was followed by a ~300 s long tail with a soft energy spectrum and a dramatic 5.16 s period. Its peak and time integrated energy fluxes at Earth are the largest yet observed from any cosmic source. This event was probably initiated by a massive disruption of the neutron star crust, followed by an outflow of energetic particles rotating with the period of the star. Comparison of these two bursts supports the idea that magnetic energy plays an important role, and that such giant flares, while rare, are not unique, and may occur at any time in the neutron star's activity cycle., Accepted for publication in Nature

Published
1999

47. Broadband observations of the naked-eye gamma-ray burst GRB 080319B

Author

V. Mangano, M. A. Garrett, F. M. Zerbi, K. L. Page, Judith Racusin, A. J. Castro-Tirado, A. P. Beardmore, Raffaella Margutti, Javier Gorosabel, Bing Zhang, C. Guidorzi, D. D. Frederiks, M. Ulanov, David N. Burrows, Andrew S. Fruchter, Jonathan Granot, Lech Wiktor Piotrowski, P. D'Avanzo, P. W. A. Roming, Aleksander Filip Zarnecki, Zsolt Paragi, Marcin Sokolowski, Grzegorz Kasprowicz, Martin Jelínek, G. Greco, A. J. van der Horst, Adalberto Piccioni, Corrado Bartolini, Iain A. Steele, Dino Fugazza, Guido Chincarini, Nial R. Tanvir, E. Molinari, A. Moretti, D. B. Fox, Atish Kamble, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, Neil Gehrels, M. Della Valle, Katarzyna Małek, P. Oleynik, C. Pagani, Stephen T. Holland, S. B. Pandey, A. de Ugarte Postigo, Adriano Guarnieri, Stefan Immler, Patricia Schady, S. V. Karpov, Chryssa Kouveliotou, R. L. C. Starling, Ralph A. M. J. Wijers, Richard G. Strom, J. M. Winters, Fabrizio Fiore, A. Cucchiara, Scott Barthelmy, Andrew J. Levan, M. Cwiok, P. A. Curran, J. P. Osborne, Lech Mankiewicz, Vincenzo Testa, Tsvi Piran, A. D. Falcone, S. R. Oates, P. T. O'Brien, V. La Parola, Krzysztof Nawrocki, R. Aptekar, S. Bondar, J. Cummings, G. M. Beskin, M. Perri, Andreja Gomboc, Sergio Campana, Malcolm N. Bremer, Klaas Wiersema, M. T. Page, W. Dominik, A. Melandri, S. Golenetskii, Xue-Feng Wu, L. Vetere, Robert J. Smith, Gino Tosti, Peter Mészáros, E. P. Mazets, P. A. Evans, V. Pal'Shin, Stefano Covino, Valerio D'Elia, Grzegorz Wrochna, High Energy Astrophys. & Astropart. Phys (API, FNWI), and Low Energy Astrophysics (API, FNWI)

Subjects
Physics, Multidisciplinary, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Gamma ray, GRB 080916C, Astronomy, GRB 130427A, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Light curve, Spectral line, Afterglow, Stars, Gamma-ray burst, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, QB
Abstract

Long-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) release copious amounts of energy across the entire electromagnetic spectrum, and so provide a window into the process of black hole formation from the collapse of massive stars. Previous early optical observations of even the most exceptional GRBs (990123 and 030329) lacked both the temporal resolution to probe the optical flash in detail and the accuracy needed to trace the transition from the prompt emission within the outflow to external shocks caused by interaction with the progenitor environment. Here we report observations of the extraordinarily bright prompt optical and gamma-ray emission of GRB 080319B that provide diagnostics within seconds of its formation, followed by broadband observations of the afterglow decay that continued for weeks. We show that the prompt emission stems from a single physical region, implying an extremely relativistic outflow that propagates within the narrow inner core of a two-component jet.

Published
2008

48. Giant Flare in SGR 1806-20 and Its Compton Reflection from the Moon

Author

Valentin Pal'shin, S. V. Golenetskii, T. L. Cline, V. N. Ilyinskii, D. D. Frederiks, F. P. Oleinik, E. P. Mazets, and R. L. Aptekar

Subjects
Physics, Spectrometer, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics (astro-ph), FOS: Physical sciences, Flux, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Spectral line, law.invention, Pulse (physics), Afterglow, Helicon, Space and Planetary Science, law, Physics::Space Physics, Reflection (physics), Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Flare
Abstract

We analyze the data obtained when the Konus-Wind gamma-ray spectrometer detected a giant flare in SGR 1806-20 on December 27, 2004. The flare is similar in appearance to the two known flares in SGR 0526-66 and SGR 1900+14 while exceeding them significantly in intensity. The enormous X-ray and gamma-ray flux in the narrow initial pulse of the flare leads to almost instantaneous deep saturation of the gamma-ray detectors, ruling out the possibility of directly measuring the intensity, time profile, and energy spectrum of the initial pulse. In this situation, the detection of an attenuated signal of Compton back-scattering of the initial pulse emission by the Moon with the Helicon gamma-ray spectrometer onboard the Coronas-F satellite was an extremely favorable circumstance. Analysis of this signal has yielded the most reliable temporal, energy, and spectral characteristics of the pulse. The temporal and spectral characteristics of the pulsating flare tail have been determined from Konus-Wind data. Its soft spectra have been found to contain also a hard power-law component extending to 10 MeV. A weak afterglow of SGR 1806-20 decaying over several hours is traceable up to 1 MeV. We also consider the overall picture of activity of SGR 1806-20 in the emission of recurrent bursts before and after the giant flare., 29 pages including 18 figures; to appear in Astronomy Letters, 2007, 33, p 1-18

Published
2006

49. GRB 060313: A New Paradigm for Short-Hard Bursts?

Author

Pawan Kumar, Patricia T. Boyd, C. Pagani, Sergio Campana, Stephen T. Holland, A lex J. Blustin, J. P. Osborne, Frank Marshall, Jay P. Norris, Valentin Pal'shin, D. D. Frederiks, Bing Zhang, Daniel E. Vanden Berk, R. Aptekar, S. Golenetskii, T. Sakamoto, Peter W. A. Roming, David N. Burrows, Hans A. Krimm, John A. Nousek, Peter Mészáros, Caryl Gronwall, Patricia Schady, Scott Barthelmy, and Neil Gehrels

Subjects
Physics, Length scale, Jet (fluid), Microphysics, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics (astro-ph), Binary number, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Star (graph theory), Space and Planetary Science, Radiative transfer, Outflow, Gamma-ray burst
Abstract

We report the simultaneous observations of the prompt emission in the gamma-ray and hard X-ray bands by the Swift-BAT and the KONUS-Wind instruments of the short-hard burst, GRB 060313. The observations reveal multiple peaks in both the gamma-ray and hard X-ray bands suggesting a highly variable outflow from the central explosion. We also describe the early-time observations of the X-ray and UV/Optical afterglows by the Swift XRT and UVOT instruments. The combination of the X-ray and UV/Optical observations provide the most comprehensive lightcurves to date of a short-hard burst at such an early epoch. The afterglows exhibit complex structure with different decay indices and flaring. This behavior can be explained by the combination of a structured jet, radiative loss of energy, and decreasing microphysics parameters occurring in a circum-burst medium with densities varying by a factor of approximately two on a length scale of 10^17 cm. These density variations are normally associated with the environment of a massive star and inhomogeneities in its windy medium. However, the mean density of the observed medium (n approximately 10^−4 cm^3) is much less than that expected for a massive star. Although the collapse of a massive star as the origin of GRB 060313 is unlikely, the merger of a compact binary also poses problems for explaining the behavior of this burst. Two possible suggestions for explaining this scenario are: some short bursts may arise from a mechanism that does not invoke the conventional compact binary model, or soft late-time central engine activity is producing UV/optical but no X-ray flaring., Comment: 28 pages, 6 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ. Clarifications made and typos corrected

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2006
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50. Panchromatic study of GRB 060124: from precursor to afterglow

Author

Gaspare Cusumano, J. P. Osborne, Bing Zhang, Vanessa Mangano, Guido Chincarini, T. Sakamoto, Andrew P. Beardmore, S. D. Barthelmy, D. D. Frederiks, Frank Marshall, M. Perri, N. Gehrels, D. Malesani, Evert Rol, Edward E. Fenimore, Alessia Moretti, John A. Nousek, P. T. O'Brien, P. Romano, Stephen T. Holland, Sergio Campana, V. La Parola, Dafne Guetta, Michael R. Goad, Teresa Mineo, K. L. Page, M. Capalbi, David N. Burrows, Olivier Godet, V. Pal'shin, G. Tagliaferri, Patricia T. Boyd, Paolo Giommi, S. Barbier, R. L. Aptekar, J. A. Kennea, S. Golenetskii, and J. Cummings

Subjects
Physics, Spectral index, Field (physics), Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics (astro-ph), FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Electron, Panchromatic film, Afterglow, Space and Planetary Science, Gamma-ray burst, Event (particle physics), Energy (signal processing)
Abstract

We present observations of GRB 060124, the first event for which both the prompt and the afterglow emission could be observed simultaneously and in their entirety by the three Swift instruments. Indeed, Swift-BAT triggered on a precursor ~570s before the main burst peak, and this allowed Swift to repoint the narrow field instruments to the burst position ~350s before the main burst occurred. GRB 060124 also triggered Konus-Wind, which observed the prompt emission in a harder gamma-ray band (up to 2MeV). Thanks to these exceptional circumstances, the temporal and spectral properties of the prompt emission can be studied in the optical, X-ray and gamma-ray ranges. While the X-ray emission (0.2-10keV) clearly tracks the gamma-ray burst, the optical component follows a different pattern, likely indicating a different origin, possibly the onset of external shocks. The prompt GRB spectrum shows significant spectral evolution, with both the peak energy and the spectral index varying. As observed in several long GRBs, significant lags are measured between the hard- and low-energy components, showing that this behaviour extends over 3 decades in energy. The GRB peaks are also much broader at soft energies. This is related to the temporal evolution of the spectrum, and can be accounted for by assuming that the electron spectral index softened with time. The burst energy (E_iso~5x10^{53} erg) and average peak energy (E_p~300keV) make GRB 060124 consistent with the Amati relation. The X-ray afterglow is characterized by a decay which presents a break at t_b~10^5s., Comment: 15 pages, 14 figures, 6 tables. Astronomy and Astrophysics, accepted. Revised UVOT photometry

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2006
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