The biggest bangs the mystery of gamma-ray bursts, the most violent explosions in the universe /

The biggest bangs the mystery of gamma-ray bursts, the most violent explosions in the universe /

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Main Author: Katz, Jonathan I.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Subjects:
Gamma ray bursts.
Electronic books.
Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Vela 3
  • 2. Detectors 12
  • 3. Where Are They? 21
  • 4. What Are They? 29
  • 5. Compactness 40
  • 6. The Large Magellanic Cloud so
  • 7. False Lines 60
  • 8. False Light 70
  • 9. The Copernican Dilemma 82
  • 10. Soft Gamma Repeaters 94
  • 11. BATSE 106
  • 12. The Great Debate 116
  • 13. The Theorists' Turn 126
  • 14. Afterglows 139
  • 15. A Supernova Connection? 152
  • 16. The Holy Grail 162
  • 17. The End of the Beginning 178
  • Afterword 181
  • Appendix. Did a Gamma-ray Burst Kill the Dinosaurs?
  • Will a Burst Kill Us? 185
  • Glossary 189
  • Sources 197
  • Index 209.

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