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Cosmic Gamma-Ray Bursts: The Big Picture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 September 2016

Kevin Hurley
Kevin Hurley*
Affiliation:
University of California Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720-7450, USA;[email protected]

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A “typical” GRB occurs in a star-forming region of a galaxy at a redshift z~1. In currently popular models, it is caused by the collapse of a massive star which has exhausted its nuclear fuel supply. The star collapses to a black hole threaded by a strong magnetic field, and possibly fed by an accretion torus. Through a variety of processes, electrons are accelerated and gamma-rays, X-rays, optical light, and radio emission ensue, with durations from seconds to years. In this talk, I will review the general observational properties of bursts, their afterglows and host galaxies, and some of the open questions about them.

Type
Part VII Gamma-Ray Bursters
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 192: Cosmic Explosions , 2005 , pp. 433 - 439
Copyright
Copyright © Springer-Verlag 2005

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