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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011]
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Year of Publication:2011
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Frontiers in Physics ; 2
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.) :; 25 line illus.
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