What are gamma-ray bursts? / Joshua S. Bloom.

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Bloom, Joshua S, 1974-

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computer

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9781400837007
1400837006
9786613001283
6613001287
1283001284
9781283001281

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: What are gamma-ray bursts?DDC classification:

523.01/97222 22

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QB471.7.B85 B56 2011eb

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US 1670

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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.

Summary: 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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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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.