Slides from the fourth lecture
... The discovery was reported for the first time only in 1973. There was an “invite prediction”. S. Colgate was asked to predict • as a scientific excuse for GRBs the launch of the Vela Satellites ...
... The discovery was reported for the first time only in 1973. There was an “invite prediction”. S. Colgate was asked to predict • as a scientific excuse for GRBs the launch of the Vela Satellites ...
Slide 1
... position, decides whether the burst merits a spacecraft slew and, if so, sends the position to the spacecraft. In order to study bursts with a variety of intensities, durations, and temporal structures, the BAT must have a large dynamic range and trigger capabilities. The BAT uses a twodimensional c ...
... position, decides whether the burst merits a spacecraft slew and, if so, sends the position to the spacecraft. In order to study bursts with a variety of intensities, durations, and temporal structures, the BAT must have a large dynamic range and trigger capabilities. The BAT uses a twodimensional c ...
Skynet
... Bright Enough to See Without a Telescope! The Most Luminous Event Ever Observed...30,000,000,000,000,000,000 (30 Billion Billion) Times the Luminosity of the Sun, or as Bright as 100 Million Galaxies! Very Easy to Make Scientific Observations with a Small Telescope ...
... Bright Enough to See Without a Telescope! The Most Luminous Event Ever Observed...30,000,000,000,000,000,000 (30 Billion Billion) Times the Luminosity of the Sun, or as Bright as 100 Million Galaxies! Very Easy to Make Scientific Observations with a Small Telescope ...
Relativistic jets in microquasars, AGN and GRBs
... V ~ 27 km/s ~ 2 M were blown away Linear momentum = 430 M km/s, as in runaway neutron stars THE RELATIVISTIC STAR IN LSI +61 303 WAS BORN ...
... V ~ 27 km/s ~ 2 M were blown away Linear momentum = 430 M km/s, as in runaway neutron stars THE RELATIVISTIC STAR IN LSI +61 303 WAS BORN ...
Refusing to Go Quietly: GRBs and Their Progenitors
... • If they are very far, their energies may be stupendous....something like the rest mass of the sun being turned into gamma-rays! ...
... • If they are very far, their energies may be stupendous....something like the rest mass of the sun being turned into gamma-rays! ...
Word doc - UC-HiPACC - University of California, Santa Cruz
... ‘The burst of the century’ “This was the burst of the century!” exclaimed James A. Wren, an engineer at Los Alamos National Laboratory and co-author of one of the papers. Indeed, GRB 130427A (as it is now called) was the most powerful gamma-ray burst and the second-brightest optical flash measured i ...
... ‘The burst of the century’ “This was the burst of the century!” exclaimed James A. Wren, an engineer at Los Alamos National Laboratory and co-author of one of the papers. Indeed, GRB 130427A (as it is now called) was the most powerful gamma-ray burst and the second-brightest optical flash measured i ...