Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Prologue
- 1 The discovery of the gamma-ray burst phenomenon
- 2 Instrumental principles
- 3 The BATSE era
- 4 The cosmological era
- 5 The Swift era
- 6 Discoveries enabled by multiwavelength afterglow observations of gamma-ray bursts
- 7 Prompt emission from gamma-ray bursts
- 8 Basic gamma-ray burst afterglows
- 9 The GRB–supernova connection
- 10 Models for gamma-ray burst progenitors and central engines
- 11 Jets and gamma-ray burst unification schemes
- 12 High-energy cosmic rays and neutrinos
- 13 Long gamma-ray burst host galaxies and their environments
- 14 Gamma-ray burst cosmology
- 15 Epilogue
- Indix
- Plate section
Plate section
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Prologue
- 1 The discovery of the gamma-ray burst phenomenon
- 2 Instrumental principles
- 3 The BATSE era
- 4 The cosmological era
- 5 The Swift era
- 6 Discoveries enabled by multiwavelength afterglow observations of gamma-ray bursts
- 7 Prompt emission from gamma-ray bursts
- 8 Basic gamma-ray burst afterglows
- 9 The GRB–supernova connection
- 10 Models for gamma-ray burst progenitors and central engines
- 11 Jets and gamma-ray burst unification schemes
- 12 High-energy cosmic rays and neutrinos
- 13 Long gamma-ray burst host galaxies and their environments
- 14 Gamma-ray burst cosmology
- 15 Epilogue
- Indix
- Plate section
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- Information
- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012