Advances in Astronomy Gamma-Ray Burst in the Swift/Fermi Era and Beyond Lead Guest Editor: WeiKang Zheng Guest Editors: Takanori Sakamoto, Yuji Urata, and Shashi B. Pandey Gamma-Ray Burst in the Swift/Fermi Era and Beyond Advances in Astronomy Gamma-Ray Burst in the Swift/Fermi Era and Beyond Lead Guest Editor: WeiKang Zheng Guest Editors: Takanori Sakamoto, Yuji Urata, andShashiB.Pandey Copyright © 2018 Hindawi. All rights reserved. This is a special issue published in “Advances in Astronomy.” All articles are open access articles distributed under the Creative Com- mons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Editorial Board Lorenzo Amati, Italy Dieter Horns, Germany Zdzislaw E. Musielak, USA Sydney A. Barnes, Germany John Hughes, USA Valery Nakariakov, UK Miguel De Avillez, Portugal Wing-Huen Ip, Taiwan George Pavlov, USA Damien A. Easson, USA Geza Kovacs, Hungary Alexei S. Pozanenko, Russia Elmetwally Elabbasy, Egypt Michael Kueppers, Spain Somak Raychaudhury, India Chamkaur Ghag, UK Ronald Mennickent, Chile Josep M. Trigo-Rodríguez, Spain Dean Hines, USA Ch. C. Moustakidis, Greece Roberto Turolla, Italy Contents Gamma-Ray Burst in the Swift/Fermi Era and Beyond WeiKang Zheng , Takanori Sakamoto , Yuji Urata, and Shashi B. Pandey Volume 2018, Article ID 2730676, 1 page Gamma-Ray Burst Prompt Correlations M. G. Dainotti ,R.DelVecchio,andM.Tarnopolski Volume 2018, Article ID 4969503, 31 pages The Observer’s Guide to the Gamma-Ray Burst Supernova Connection Zach Cano, Shan-Qin Wang, Zi-Gao Dai, and Xue-Feng Wu Volume 2017, Article ID 8929054, 41 pages Gamma-Ray Bursts: A Radio Perspective Poonam Chandra Volume 2016, Article ID 2967813, 13 pages ADecadeofGRBFollow-UpbyBOOTESinSpain(2003–2013) Martin Jelínek, Alberto J. Castro-Tirado, Ronan Cunniffe, Javier Gorosabel, Stanislav Vítek, Petr Kubánek, Antonio de Ugarte Postigo, Sergey Guziy, Juan C. Tello, Petr Páta, Rubén Sánchez-Ramírez, Samantha Oates, Soomin Jeong, Jan Štrobl, Sebastián Castillo-Carrión, Tomás Mateo Sanguino, Ovidio Rabaza, Dolores Pérez-Ramírez, Rafael Fernández-Muñoz, Benito A. de la Morena Carretero, René Hudec, Víctor Reglero, and Lola Sabau-Graziati Volume 2016, Article ID 1928465, 12 pages Kilonova/Macronova Emission from Compact Binary Mergers Masaomi Tanaka Volume 2016, Article ID 6341974, 12 pages Diverse Features of the Multiwavelength Afterglows of Gamma-Ray Bursts: Natural or Special? J. J. Geng and Y. F. Huang Volume 2016, Article ID 1592148, 10 pages Hindawi Advances in Astronomy Volume 2018, Article ID 2730676, 1 page https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/2730676 Editorial Gamma-Ray Burst in the Swift/Fermi Era and Beyond WeiKang Zheng ,1 Takanori Sakamoto ,2 Yuji Urata,3 and Shashi B. Pandey 4 1 Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3411, USA 2Department of Physics and Mathematics, Aoyama Gakuin University, Sagamihara, Kanagawa 252-5258, Japan 3Institute of Astronomy, National Central University, Chung-Li 32054, Taiwan 4Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences, Manora Peak, Nainital 263002, India Correspondence should be addressed to WeiKang Zheng; [email protected] Received 20 December 2016; Accepted 20 December 2016; Published 1 February 2018 Copyright © WeiKang Zheng et al. is is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. e Swift and Fermi satellites have been observing gamma- Overall, this volume extends the discussions of the raybursts(GRBs),whichareshort-livedandintenseashesof previously published special issue, “Gamma-Ray Bursts in the gamma-rays associated with the death/explosion of massive Swi and Fermi Era,” and covers more topics about GRBs stars and/or compact binary mergers, for nearly a decade from gamma-ray to radio wavelengths. ese are the most in space since their launch in and , respectively. updated summaries of progress on GRB studies during the Our understanding of GRB physics, though still far from Swift and Fermi mission periods. We hope these two special complete, has been revolutionized thanks to their outstand- issues provide useful information for GRB researchers, help- ing observations, as well as the ongoing ground follow-up ingtoleadtonewresultsandprogressevenbeyondtheSwift observations. In addition to a previously published special and Fermi era. issue, “Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Swi and Fermi Era,” which discussed GRB work related to the Swift and Fermi missions, Acknowledgments here we continue collecting reviews and research articles on GRBs and their a erglows. We sincerely thank the authors and referees for all of their In total, ve reviews and one research article are published e orts. in this special issue. e review article by M. Tanaka sum- marizes the current understanding of kilonovae/macronovae WeiKang Zheng related to the GRBs. In comparison, Z. Cano et al. present Takanori Sakamoto an up-to-date review of progress on the connection between Yuji Urata supernovae and long-duration GRBs. Next, the review article Shashi B. Pandey by M. Dainotti et al. discusses various GRB correlations duringthepromptphaseandtheiruseasredshi estimators and possibly as cosmological tools. In contrast, the review byJ.J.GengandY.F.HuangfocusesontheGRBa erglow phase, discussing the diverse features of the multiwavelength a erglows of GRBs. One other article by M. Jelinek et al. presents a decade of optical follow-up observations of GRBs by the BOOTES telescope in Spain. Lastly, P. Chandra discusses GRBs from the radio perspective, which is very important for studies of GRBs related to their calorimetry, reverse-shock emission, and circumburst environments. Hindawi Advances in Astronomy Volume 2018, Article ID 4969503, 31 pages https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/4969503 Review Article Gamma-Ray Burst Prompt Correlations M. G. Dainotti ,1,2,3 R. Del Vecchio,3 and M. Tarnopolski3 1 Physics Department, Stanford University, Via Pueblo Mall 382, Stanford, CA, USA 2INAF, Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica, Via Gobetti 101, 40129 Bologna, Italy 3Astronomical Observatory, Jagiellonian University, Orla 171, 30-244 Krakow,´ Poland Correspondence should be addressed to M. G. Dainotti; [email protected] Received 25 May 2016; Accepted 27 November 2016; Published 24 January 2018 Academic Editor: Alberto J. Castro-Tirado Copyright © 2018 M. G. Dainotti et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The mechanism responsible for the prompt emission of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is still a debated issue. The prompt phase-related GRB correlations can allow discriminating among the most plausible theoretical models explaining this emission. We present an overview of the observational two-parameter correlations, their physical interpretations, and their use as redshift estimators and possibly as cosmological tools. The nowadays challenge is to make GRBs, the farthest stellar-scaled objects observed (up to redshift = 9.4), standard candles through well established and robust correlations. However, GRBs spanning several orders of magnitude in their energetics are far from being standard candles. We describe the advances in the prompt correlation research in the past decades, with particular focus paid to the discoveries in the last 20 years. 1. Introduction quences of the anisotropic celestial distribution of SGRBs were discussed lately by Mesz´ aros´ et al. [24] and Mesz´ aros´ Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are highly energetic events and Rees [6]. Finally, the progenitors of LGRBs are associated with the total isotropic energy released of the order of with supernovae (SNe) [25–29] related to collapse of massive 48 55 10 –10 erg (for recent reviews, see [1–6]). GRBs were stars. Progenitors of SGRBs are thought to be neutron discovered by military satellites Vela in late 1960s and were star–black hole (NS–BH) or NS–NS mergers [12, 30–32], and recognized early to be of extrasolar origin [7]. A bimodal no connection between SGRBs and SNe has been proven [33]. structure (reported first by Mazets et al. [8]) in the duration While the recent first direct detection of gravitational distribution of GRBs detected by the Burst and Transient waves (GW), termed GW150914, by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) [34], interpreted Source Experiment (BATSE) onboard the Compton Gamma- +5 asamergeroftwostellar-massBHswithmasses36−4 ⊙ Ray Observatory (CGRO) [9], based on which GRBs are +4 nowadays commonly classified into short (with durations and 29−4 ⊙, is by itself a discovery of prime importance, 90 <2s, SGRBs) and long (with 90 >2s, LGRBs), it becomes especially interesting in light of the finding of was found [10]. BATSE observations allowed also confirming Connaughton et al. [35] who reported a weak transient the hypothesis of Klebesadel et al. [7] that GRBs are of source lasting 1 s and detected by Fermi/GBM [36] only extragalactic origin due to isotropic angular distribution in 0.4 s after the GW150914, termed GW150914-GBM. Its false the sky combined with the fact that they exhibited an intensity alarmprobabilityisestimatedtobe0.0022.Thefluencein +1.5 distribution that deviated strongly from the −3/2 power law theenergyband1keV–10MeViscomputedtobe1.8−1.0