Gamma-ray Bursts
ISBN: 9780521662093 | 0521662095
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date: 1/7/2013
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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... MORE
| Prologue | |
| The discovery of the gamma-ray burst phenomenon | |
| Instrumental principles | |
| The BATSE era | |
| The cosmological era | |
| The Swift era | |
| Discoveries enabled by multi-wavelength afterglow observations of gamma-ray bursts | |
| Prompt emission from gamma-ray bursts | |
| Basic gamma-ray burst afterglows | |
| The GRB-supernova... MORE | |
| Models for gamma-ray burst progenitors and central engines | |
| Jets and gamma-ray burst unification schemes | |
| High-energy cosmic rays and neutrinos | |
| Long gamma-ray burst host galaxies and their environments | |
| Gamma-ray burst cosmology | |
| Epilogue | |
| Index | |
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