What Are Gamma-Ray Bursts? / / Joshua S. Bloom.
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 re...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Frontiers in Physics ;
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- 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