Gamma-Ray Bursts

Herausgeber: Kouveliotou, Chryssa; Woosley, Stan; Wijers, Ralph A M J

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A comprehensive graduate-level review of GRB astrophysics and its history, featuring the latest research by an international team of experts.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 358
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 179mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 861g
• ISBN-13: 9780521662093
• ISBN-10: 0521662095
• Artikelnr.: 34541722

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue C. Kouveliotou, R. A . M. J. Wijers and S. E. Woosley
1. The discovery of the gamma-ray burst phenomenon R. W. Klebesadel
2. Instrumental principles E. E. Fenimore
3. The BATSE era G. J. Fishman and C. A. Meegan
4. The cosmological era L. Piro and K. Hurley
5. The Swift era N. Gehrels and D. N. Burrows
6. Discoveries enabled by multi-wavelength afterglow observations of gamma-ray bursts J. Greiner
7. Prompt emission from gamma-ray bursts T. Piran, R. Sari and R. Mochkovitch
8. Basic gamma-ray burst afterglows P. Mészáros and R. A. M. J. Wijers
9. The GRB-supernova connection J. Hjorth and J. S. Bloom
10. Models for gamma-ray burst progenitors and central engines S. E. Woosley
11. Jets and gamma-ray burst unification schemes J. Granot and E. Ramirez-Ruiz
12. High-energy cosmic rays and neutrinos E. Waxman
13. Long gamma-ray burst host galaxies and their environments J. P. U. Fynbo, D. Malesani and P. Jakobsson
14. Gamma-ray burst cosmology V. Bromm and A. Loeb
15. Epilogue R. D. Blandford
Index.