Gamma-Ray Bursts 2007: Proceedings of the Santa Fe ConferenceMark Galassi, David Palmer, Edward Fenimore 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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Status of Swift GRB Observations | 3 |
GammaRay Bursts Classified Physically | 11 |
On the Selection Effects of the pek10Correlation | 20 |
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| Title | Gamma-Ray Bursts 2007: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Conference Volume 1000 of AIP Conference Proceedings |
| Editors | Mark Galassi, David Palmer, Edward Fenimore |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | American Inst. of Physics, 2008 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | Jan 15, 2011 |
| ISBN | 0735405336, 9780735405332 |
| Length | 657 pages |
| Subjects | › Science / Astronomy |
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