Gamma-ray bursts – a puzzle being resolved ☆
Tsvi Piran,Tsvi Piran +1 more
TLDR
The recent discovery of GRB afterglow has demonstrated that we are on the right track towards the resolution of this long standing puzzle as discussed by the authors, and the current understanding implies that GRBs signal the birth of stellar mass black holes.About:
This article is published in Physics Reports.The article was published on 2000-08-01 and is currently open access. It has received 207 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Gamma-ray burst & Gamma-ray burst progenitors.read more
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The physics of gamma-ray bursts
TL;DR: A review of the current theoretical understanding of the physical processes believed to take place in GRB's can be found in this article, where the authors focus on the afterglow itself, the jet break in the light curve, and the optical flash that accompanies the GRB.
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Beaming in gamma-ray bursts: evidence for a standard energy reservoir
Dale A. Frail,Shrinivas R. Kulkarni,Re'em Sari,S. G. Djorgovski,Joshua S. Bloom,Titus Galama,Daniel E. Reichart,Edo Berger,Fiona A. Harrison,P. A. Price,S. A. Yost,A. Diercks,Robert W. Goodrich,Frederic H. Chaffee +13 more
TL;DR: In this article, a comprehensive sample of all gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglows with known distances is presented, and their conical opening angles are derived based on observed broadband breaks in their light curves.
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The physics of gamma-ray bursts & relativistic jets
Pawan Kumar,Bing Zhang +1 more
TL;DR: A comprehensive review of major developments in our understanding of gamma-ray bursts, with particular focus on the discoveries made within the last fifteen years when their true nature was uncovered, can be found in this paper.
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The Physics of Gamma-Ray Bursts and Relativistic Jets
Pawan Kumar,Bing Zhang +1 more
TL;DR: A comprehensive review of major developments in the understanding of gamma-ray bursts can be found in this article, with particular focus on the discoveries made within the last fifteen years when their true nature was uncovered.
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Accretion Models of Gamma‐Ray Bursts
TL;DR: In this article, it was shown that if the viscosity parameter a in the NDAF has a standard value of D0.1, these models can explain short gamma-ray bursts with durations under a second, but they are unlikely to produce long GRBs with tens or hundred of seconds.
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Mass ejection in neutron star mergers
Stephan Rosswog,Matthias Liebendörfer,Friedrich-Karl Thielemann,Melvyn B. Davies,Willy Benz,Tsvi Piran +5 more
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Fireballs Loading and the Blast Wave Model of Gamma Ray Bursts
TL;DR: In this article, the spectral and temporal evolution of the observed nonthermal synchrotron power flux from GRBs in the blast wave model is modeled with a simple function for the spectral power, with nine parameters, and the spectra are found to be most sensitive to baryon loading, expressed in terms of the initial bulk Lorentz factor.
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Searching for the Earliest Galaxies Using the Gunn‐Peterson Trough and the Lyα Emission Line
TL;DR: In this article, it was shown that the high-redshift galaxies seen behind intervening gas that is still neutral should show the red damping wing of the Gunn-Peterson trough, with a predictable pro-le that obstructs part of the Lya emission.
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Possible evidence for relativistic shocks in gamma-ray bursts
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the spectra of 11 gamma-ray bursts obtained by the Large Area Detectors on BATSE and found that all of the observed asymptotic spectral slopes lie in the predicted range.
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The supernova-gamma-ray burst connection
Lifan Wang,J. Craig Wheeler +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that Type Ia SNe can be excluded as the source of γ-ray bursts at a high significance level (greater than 4 σ) and that the current data are consistent with Type Ib/c SNe as GRB producers.
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