What are gamma-ray bursts?
"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…
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- Full title :What are gamma-ray bursts? / Joshua S. Bloom.
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"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."--[Source inconnue].
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- Publication Date:©2011.
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- Publisher(s):Princeton University Press
- Place of Publication:Princeton, N.J
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2011.
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Titre de l'écran-titre (visionné le 10 février 2012).
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (1 texte électronique (xii, 256 p.)) : : ill., carte, fichiers HTML et PDF.
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- ISBN:9781400837007, 1400837006
- oclc:ocn780498889
- LC Classification:QB471.7.B85
- Dewey Decimal:523.01/97222
Table of Contents
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.
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