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

By: Bloom, Joshua S, 1974-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Princeton frontiers in physics: Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, �2011Description: 1 online resource (xii, 256 pages) : illustrations, map.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781400837007; 1400837006; 9786613001283; 6613001287; 1283001284; 9781283001281.Subject(s): Gamma ray bursts | Stars -- Formation | Sursauts gamma | �Etoiles -- Formation | SCIENCE -- Physics -- Astrophysics | Gamma ray bursts | Stars -- Formation | Sternentwicklung | Gamma-BurstGenre/Form: Electronic books. | Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: What are gamma-ray bursts?DDC classification: 523.01/97222 Other classification: US 1670 Online resources: Click here to access online
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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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.

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