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Author : Stephen S. Holt
Publisher : American Institute of Physics
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 760 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Swift Era written by Stephen S. Holt and published by American Institute of Physics. This book was released on 2006-05-31 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Washington, DC, 29 November-2 December 2005
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Total Pages : 733 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (113 download)
Download or read book Gamma-ray Bursts in the Swift Era written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 733 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gilbert Vedrenne
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 354039088X
Total Pages : 613 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Gamma-Ray Bursts written by Gilbert Vedrenne and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-03-20 with total page 613 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since their discovery was first announced in 1973, gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have been among the most fascination objects in the universe. While the initial mystery has gone, the fascination continues, sustained by the close connection linking GRBs with some of the most fundamental topics in modern astrophysics and cosmology. Both authors have been active in GRB observations for over two decades and have produced an outstanding account on both the history and the perspectives of GRB research.
Author : David Alexander Kann
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Afterglows of Swift-era Short and Long Gamma-ray Bursts written by David Alexander Kann and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The phenomenon of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) has been a great mystery since their discovery four decades ago. Even today, over a decade into the "afterglow age", many questions are still unanswered. The canonical picture which satisfies most of the data is that GRBs are produced when a massive celestial body (either a post-main sequence star or merging compact objects) at cosmological distances collapses to a rapidly rotating compact object (a black hole, for example) which launches ultra-relativistic polar jets. The internal dissipation of energy within the jets leads to collimated non-thermal high-energy emission (the actual GRB), whereas shocks created from the interactions of the jets with the interstellar medium create a long-lasting fading afterglow. ...
Author : Chryssa Kouveliotou
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139576488
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (395 download)
Download or read book Gamma-ray Bursts written by Chryssa Kouveliotou and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-22 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cosmic gamma ray bursts (GRBs) have fascinated scientists and the public alike since their discovery in the late 1960s. Their story is told here by some of the scientists who participated in their discovery and, after many decades of false starts, solved the problem of their origin. Fourteen chapters by active researchers in the field present a detailed history of the discovery, a comprehensive theoretical description of GRB central engine and emission models, a discussion of GRB host galaxies and a guide to how GRBs can be used as cosmological tools. Observations are grouped into three sets from the satellites CGRO, BeppoSAX and Swift, and followed by a discussion of multi-wavelength observations. This is the first edited volume on GRB astrophysics that presents a fully comprehensive review of the subject. Utilizing the latest research, Gamma-ray Bursts is an essential desktop companion for graduate students and researchers in astrophysics.
Author : Cheryl Pauline Hurkett
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Book Rating : 4.:/5 (55 download)
Download or read book Gamma Ray Bursts written by Cheryl Pauline Hurkett and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Enrico Costa
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ISBN 13 : 9783662307939
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)
Download or read book Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Afterglow Era written by Enrico Costa and published by . This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Delaunay
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (127 download)
Download or read book Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Multi-Messenger Era written by James Delaunay and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gamma-ray Bursts (GRBs) are incredibly energetic, brief flashes of gamma-rays originating from some of the most violent explosions in the universe. The progenitors of the two main classes GRBs, long and short, are thought to be the core collapse of massive stars for long GRBs and the merger of compact objects, like neutron stars and black holes for short GRBs. Though the emission for either class is still not perfectly understood, long GRBs are more well-understood due to their larger energy output and brighter afterglows. The first ever high-energy multi-messenger detection occurred on August 17th, 2017 when a short GRB was observed in coincidence with gravitational waves originating from two neutron stars merging into each other in a galaxy over one hundred million light-years away. This observation had wide spread scientific implications, including the confirmation as compact object mergers as short GRB progenitors, but one surprising result was the lowest measured luminosity of a short GRB by more than 2 orders of magnitude. The revelation of this new population of low-luminosity short GRBs motivates senitive GRB searches to find and study other members of the population. This dissertation focuses on work I have done using data from Swift's Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) as a tool for multi-messenger astrophysics. This includes a targeted analysis using existing tools to search for counterparts to astrophysical events of interest, and a new likelihood-based method of analyzing BAT data I developed to make a more sensitive search for GRBs. This new likelihood-based search is capable of increasing the detection horizon of a GRB 170817A-like burst by [almost equal to]50% compared to the onboard analysis. I will also discuss the results of these searches, including the arcminute-scale localization of 8 GRBs that were not detected onboard BAT.
Author : Bing Zhang
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107027616
Total Pages : 617 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Physics of Gamma-Ray Bursts written by Bing Zhang and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete text on the physics of gamma-ray bursts, the most brilliant explosions since the Big Bang.
Author : Chryssa Kouveliotou
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521662095
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (216 download)
Download or read book Gamma-ray Bursts written by Chryssa Kouveliotou and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-22 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive graduate-level review of GRB astrophysics and its history, featuring the latest research by an international team of experts.
Author : Javier Gorosabel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782759810024
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Gamma-Ray Bursts: 15 Years of GRB Afterglows written by Javier Gorosabel and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gamma-ray bursts (GRB) are amongst the most energetic phenomena in the Universe. In 1997 (more than 15 years ago), BeppoSAX allowed the detection of the first GRB X-ray afterglow, leading to the detection of afterglows at other wavelengths (optical, radio) in the following years, probing the cosmological distance scale. There are still many other open issues which still need to be addressed, regarding both theoretical and observational aspects: prompt emission and afterglow physics, progenitors (including Pop III stars), host galaxies, multi-messenger information, etc.
Author : Mark Galassi
Publisher : American Institute of Physics
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 684 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Gamma-Ray Bursts 2007 written by Mark Galassi and published by American Institute of Physics. This book was released on 2008-05-27 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than three decades, gamma-ray bursts have grown from an oddity to a central topic in astrophysics. Not only are they the largest explosions since the big bang, capable of flooding most of the universe with gamma-rays, but their brilliance serves as a backlight that can illuminate the cosmos far deeper into the early universe than any other object. Their unpredictability has forced researchers to use extreme measures to observe them: completely autonomous satellites and robotic ground-based telescopes. Their bizarre physical properties have required new theories on massive explosions.
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Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Swift written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Abraham Loeb
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691144923
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book The First Galaxies in the Universe written by Abraham Loeb and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive, self-contained introduction to one of the most exciting frontiers in astrophysics today: the quest to understand how the oldest and most distant galaxies in our universe first formed. Until now, most research on this question has been theoretical, but the next few years will bring about a new generation of large telescopes that promise to supply a flood of data about the infant universe during its first billion years after the big bang. This book bridges the gap between theory and observation. It is an invaluable reference for students and researchers on early galaxies. The First Galaxies in the Universe starts from basic physical principles before moving on to more advanced material. Topics include the gravitational growth of structure, the intergalactic medium, the formation and evolution of the first stars and black holes, feedback and galaxy evolution, reionization, 21-cm cosmology, and more. Provides a comprehensive introduction to this exciting frontier in astrophysics Begins from first principles Covers advanced topics such as the first stars and 21-cm cosmology Prepares students for research using the next generation of large telescopes Discusses many open questions to be explored in the coming decade
Author : Joshua S. Bloom
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400837006
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book What Are Gamma-Ray Bursts? written by Joshua S. Bloom and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-10 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brief, cutting-edge introduction to the brightest cosmic phenomena known to science Gamma-ray bursts are the brightest—and, until recently, among the least understood—cosmic events in the universe. Discovered by chance during the cold war, these evanescent high-energy explosions confounded astronomers for decades. But a rapid series of startling breakthroughs beginning in 1997 revealed that the majority of gamma-ray bursts are caused by the explosions of young and massive stars in the vast star-forming cauldrons of distant galaxies. New findings also point to very different origins for some events, serving to complicate but enrich our understanding of the exotic and violent universe. What Are Gamma-Ray Bursts? is a succinct introduction to this fast-growing subject, written by an astrophysicist who is at the forefront of today's research into these incredible cosmic phenomena. Joshua Bloom gives readers a concise and accessible overview of gamma-ray bursts and the theoretical framework that physicists have developed to make sense of complex observations across the electromagnetic spectrum. He traces the history of remarkable discoveries that led to our current understanding of gamma-ray bursts, and reveals the decisive role these phenomena could play in the grand pursuits of twenty-first century astrophysics, from studying gravity waves and unveiling the growth of stars and galaxies after the big bang to surmising the ultimate fate of the universe itself. What Are Gamma-Ray Bursts? is an essential primer to this exciting frontier of scientific inquiry, and a must-read for anyone seeking to keep pace with cutting-edge developments in physics today.
Author : Nobuyuki Kawai
Publisher : American Institute of Physics
ISBN 13 : 9780735408296
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Deciphering the Ancient Universe with Gamma-Ray Bursts written by Nobuyuki Kawai and published by American Institute of Physics. This book was released on 2010-11-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most luminous and violent explosions detectable out to the edge of the observable Universe. As soon as their cosmological origin was established, it became apparent that GRBs can serve as powerful probes of the high-redshift Universe. The association of long GRBs with the deaths of massive stars imply that they trace the sites and history of massive star formation. Their optical and near-infrared afterglows reveal spectral imprints of their environments, including the interstellar medium of their host galaxies as well as the intergalactic medium during cosmic reionization. With the Swift Observatory in orbit, such expectations are now being materialized. With GRB 050904, we found that the Universe was already largely ionized at z=6.3. The discovery of GRB 090423 at z~8.2, the most distant astrophysical object known to date, clearly demonstrates that in the coming years, GRBs will offer us an unprecedented view into the mysterious era of cosmic reionization and the formation of the first stars and galaxies. And yet, our knowledge concerning the GRBs themselves remain appallingly meager, such as their progenitors, their true energetics, the mechanisms of jet formation, particle acceleration and prompt emission, etc. The aim of this conference is to discuss the latest observational and theoretical developments in this exciting field of GRBs, with a strong emphasis on their use as probes of the high redshift universe. Non-GRB studies of the high redshift Universe, involving e.g. supernovae, galaxies, quasars and background radiation, are also essential elements of this conference.
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Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (926 download)
Download or read book Prompt Observations of Gamma-ray Bursts with Swift written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
