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Book Gamma ray Bursts

Download or read book Gamma ray Bursts written by Gerald J. Fishman and published by American Institute of Physics. This book was released on 2000-04-14 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation Proceedings of the Second Huntsville Gamma-Ray Burst Workshop, held in Huntsville, Alabama, October 1993. Papers are grouped in thematic sections, some with subsections: general observations and global studies (general burst observations/intensity distributions and isotropy measures/studies of and searches for burst repetition and clustering); temporal studies; spectral studies; burst localizations and searches for counterparts (burst localization/counterpartsgeneral/optical counterparts/x-ray counterparts/very high energy counterpart searches/soft gamma-ray repeaters--counterparts); burst origins and emission processes--theory (cosmological models/galactic models/soft gamma-ray repeaters--theory); instrumentation and new analysis techniques; and miscellaneous. No index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Book Gamma ray Bursts

    Book Details:
  • Author : Cheng Ho
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 1992-03-12
  • ISBN : 9780521414494
  • Pages : 532 pages

Download or read book Gamma ray Bursts written by Cheng Ho and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-03-12 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summarizes the current understanding of Astronomical gamma-ray bursts, short-lived flashes of high-energy radiation, which have eluded even a basic explanation for over twenty years, and describes directions for future research.

Book Gamma ray Bursts  Their High Energy Emission as Observed by EGRET

Download or read book Gamma ray Bursts Their High Energy Emission as Observed by EGRET written by María Magdalena González Sánchez and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Characteristic Time Scales in Gamma Ray Bursts

Download or read book Characteristic Time Scales in Gamma Ray Bursts written by Valentino Esposito and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) light curve temporal analysis provides useful information about the nature of the phenomenon and the physics behind it. We investigate the presence of characteristic time scales in GRB prompt light curves using wavelets, a relatively new analysis technique with the property of decomposing the input signal on a set of localised basis functions, which are best suited than long waves to analyise transient phenomena such as GRBs. Wavelets are used to perform wavelet filtering and wavelet power spectra on the 50 brightest GRBs detected by BeppoSAX, looking for the dominant time scales in the GRB prompt emission. We found that GRBs can be classified based on their power spectra shape. We looked for correlations between the temporal power and the peak energy of the GRB energy spectrum. We tentatively found that what seems to be mostly important is the temporal power at shorter time scales: a large power at these time scales is more likely to be associated to large values of the time-averaged peak energy.

Book Gamma Ray Bursts 2007

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mark Galassi
  • Publisher : American Institute of Physics
  • Release : 2008-05-27
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 684 pages

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.

Book Gamma Ray Bursts  30 Years of Discovery

Download or read book Gamma Ray Bursts 30 Years of Discovery written by E.E. Fenimore and published by American Institute of Physics. This book was released on 2004-10-21 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last thirty years, gamma-ray bursts have grown from an oddity to a central position 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 pushed us to develop new theories of astrophysical explosions. Topics include: global properties of GRBs; X-ray flashes; ultra-high energy gamma-rays, neutrinos, gravity waves; prompt emission and early afterglows; relativistic jets and polarization; GRB030329; GRB progenitors; GRB connection to supernovae; dark versus bright GRBs; late afterglows; GRBs and cosmology; general observations; general theory; analysis and observation techniques; present satellites; Swift satellite; future satellites; and robotic observing systems.

Book Gamma ray Bursts

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  • Author : Chryssa Kouveliotou
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2012-11-22
  • ISBN : 1139576488
  • Pages : 361 pages

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.

Book Gamma ray Bursts

    Book Details:
  • Author : Juri Poutanen
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 468 pages

Download or read book Gamma ray Bursts written by Juri Poutanen and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation Papers from a February 1999 workshop discuss unresolved issues regarding prompt emission of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Themes are temporal properties, spectral properties, central engine and radiative mechanisms, spatial distribution, luminosity function, cosmological effects, and future missions. Specific topics include radiation from relativistic strongly magnetized outflows, quasi-thermal comptonization and GRBs, and cosmological signatures in temporal and spectral characteristics of GRBs. The volume lacks a subject index. The editors are affiliated with the Stockholm Observatory. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Book X ray Spectral Properties of  gamma  ray Bursts

Download or read book X ray Spectral Properties of gamma ray Bursts written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors summarize the spectral characteristics of a sample of 22 bright gamma-ray bursts detected with the gamma-ray burst sensors aboard the satellite Ginga. This instrument employed a proportional and scintillation counter to provide sensitivity to photons in the 2--400 keV range, providing a unique opportunity to characterize the largely unexplored X-ray properties of gamma-ray bursts. The photon spectra of the Ginga bursts are well described by a low energy slope, a bend energy, and a high energy slope. In the energy range where they can be compared, this result is consistent with burst spectral analyses obtained from the BATSE experiment aboard the Compton Observatory. However, below 20 keV they find evidence for a positive spectral number index in approximately 40% of their burst sample, with some evidence for a strong rolloff at lower energies in a few events. They find that the distribution of spectral bend energies extends below 10 keV. The observed ratio of energy emitted in the X-rays relative to the gamma-rays can be much larger than a few percent and, in fact, is sometimes larger than unity. The average for their sample is 24%.

Book Gamma Ray Burst

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  • Author : Charles Meegan
  • Publisher : American Institute of Physics
  • Release : 2009-06-11
  • ISBN : 9780735406704
  • Pages : 562 pages

Download or read book Gamma Ray Burst written by Charles Meegan and published by American Institute of Physics. This book was released on 2009-06-11 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This was a technical symposium for astrophysicists working on gamma-ray bursts. It included discussions on the latest theoretical and experimental research on this topic, as well as plans for the next generation of orbiting instrumentation. The proceedings will be useful for specialists in the area of gamma-ray burst astronomy.

Book The Physics of Gamma Ray Bursts

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 2018-12-13 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.