What Are Gamma-Ray Bursts?

• COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; PREFACE; 1 Introduction; 2 Into the Belly of the Beast; 3 Afterglows; 4 The Events in Context; 5 The Progenitors of Gamma-Ray Bursts; 6 Gamma-Ray Bursts as Probes of the Universe; NOTES; SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING; GLOSSARY; INDEX. 

• 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 violen

Ämnesord

Gamma ray bursts. 

Stars -- Formation. 

Genre

Electronic books.  (LCSH)

Publikations- och innehållstyp

QB471.7.B85B56 2011 (LCC)

523.01/97222 (DDC)

Uai (kssb/8 (machine generated))