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.
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- Publication Date:©2011.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Princeton University Press
- Place of Publication:Princeton, N.J
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2011.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xii, 256 pages) : : illustrations, map
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781400837007, 1400837006, 9786613001283, 6613001287, 1283001284, 9781283001281
- oclc:ocn704276320
- LC Classification:QB471.7.B85
- Dewey Decimal:523.01/97222
Table of Contents
Into the belly of the beast -- Afterglows -- The events in context -- The progenitors of gamma-ray bursts -- Gamma-ray bursts as probes of the universe.
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