The biggest bangs the mystery of gamma-ray bursts, the most violent explosions in the universe /
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2002.
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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.