Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-jn8rn Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-26T04:09:27.870Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Gamma-Ray Bursts: Observational Overview

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

Gerald J. Fishman
Gerald J. Fishman*
Affiliation:
Space Sciences Laboratory, NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL 35812 USA

Abstract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

Gamma-ray bursts remain one of the greatest mysteries in astrophysics in spite of new and more detailed observations made with the BATSE experiment on the Compton Observatory. The new observation with the greatest impact has been the observed isotropic distribution of bursts along with a deficiency of the weak bursts which would be expected from a homogeneous burst distribution. This is not compatible with any known Galactic population of objects. Other recent important observations include an enormous variety of burst morphologies and gamma-ray burst photons extending to GeV energies. A time dilation effect has also been reported to be observed in gamma-ray bursts.

Type
8 Gamma-ray Bursts
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 165: Compact Stars in Binaries , 1996 , pp. 467 - 476
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1996 

References

Band, D. et al. 1993, ApJ 413, 281.Google Scholar
Barthelmy, S. et al. 1994, in Proc. Gamma-Ray Burst Workshop (1993, Huntsville), Fishman, G.J., Brainerd, J.J. & Hurley, K. (Eds.), AIP Conf Proc. Vol. 307, p. 643.Google Scholar
Brainerd, J.J. et al. 1995, ApJ (in press).Google Scholar
Bhat, N. et al. 1992, Nat 359, 217.Google Scholar
Briggs, M. et al. 1995, ApJ (in press).Google Scholar
Fenimore, E. et al. 1993, Nat 366, 40.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Fishman, G. et al. 1994, ApJS 92, 229.Google Scholar
Fishman, G.J., Brainerd, J.J. & Hurley, K. (Eds.) 1994, Proceedings Gamma-Ray Burst Workshop (1993, Huntsville), AIP Conf. Proc. Vol. 307.Google Scholar
Ford, L. et al. 1995, ApJ 439, 307.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Friedlander, M., Gehrels, N. & Macomb, D. (Eds.) 1993, Proceedings Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory Symposium (1992, St. Louis), AIP Conf. Proc. Vol. 280.Google Scholar
Hartmann, D. et al. 1995, ApJ (in press).Google Scholar
Hurley, K. 1992, in Gamma-ray Bursts , Ho, C., Epstein, R. & Fenimore, E. (Eds.), Proc. Los Alamos Workshop (1990, Taos NM), Cambridge University Press, p. 183.Google Scholar
Hurley, K. et al. 1994, Nat 372, 652.Google Scholar
Kouveliotou, C. et al. 1994a, ApJ 422, L59.Google Scholar
Kouveliotou, C. et al. 1994b, Nat 368, 125.Google Scholar
Kulkarni, S. et al. 1994, Nat 368, 129.Google Scholar
Lestrade, J.P. 1994, ApJ 429, L5.Google Scholar
Link, B., Epstein, R. & Priedhorsky, W. 1993, ApJ 408, L81.Google Scholar
Meegan, C. et al. 1992, Nat 355, 143.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Meegan, C. et al. 1995, ApJ (submitted).Google Scholar
Murakami, T. et al. 1994, Nat 368, 127.Google Scholar
Nemiroff, R.J. 1994, Comm. in Astrophys. 17, 189.Google Scholar
Nemiroff, R. et al. 1994, ApJ 423, 432.Google Scholar
Norris, J.P. et al. 1994, ApJ 424, 540.Google Scholar
Owens, A. et al. 1991, IEEE Trans. Nuc. Sci. 38(2), 559.Google Scholar
Paciesas, W.S. & Fishman, G.J. (Eds.) 1992, Proceedings Gamma-Ray Burst Workshop (1991, Huntsville), AIP Conf. Proc. Vol. 265.Google Scholar
Palmer, D.M. et al. 1994, ApJ 433, L77.Google Scholar
Pendleton, G. et al. 1994, ApJ 431, 416.Google Scholar
Piran, T. 1995, these Proceedings.Google Scholar
Ricker, G. et al. 1992, in Gamma-ray Bursts , Ho, C., Epstein, R. & Fenimore, E. (Eds.), Proc. Los Alamos Workshop (1990, Taos NM), Cambridge University Press, p. 288.Google Scholar
Ruderman, M. 1975, Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 262, 164.Google Scholar
Schaefer, B. 1994, in Proc. Gamma-Ray Burst Workshop 1993 , Fishman, G.J., Brainerd, J.J. & Hurley, K. (Eds.), AIP Conf. Proc. Vol. 307, p. 382.Google Scholar
Schaefer, B. et al. 1992, ApJ 393, L51.Google Scholar
Schaefer, B. et al. 1994, ApJ 422, L71.Google Scholar
Schmidt, M. 1968, ApJ 151, 393.Google Scholar
Share, G. et al. 1992, in Gamma-ray Bursts , Ho, C., Epstein, R. & Fenimore, E. (Eds.), Proc. Los Alamos Workshop (1990, Taos NM), Cambridge University Press, p. 249.Google Scholar
Share, G. et al. 1994, in Proc. Gamma-Ray Burst Workshop (1993, Huntsville), Fishman, G.J., Brainerd, J.J. & Hurley, K. (Eds.), AIP Conf. Proc. Vol. 307, p. 283.Google Scholar
Vanderspek, R., Krimm, H. & Ricker, G. 1994, in Proc. Gamma-Ray Burst Workshop (1993, Huntsville), Fishman, G.J., Brainerd, J.J. & Hurley, K. (Eds.), AIP Conf. Proc. Vol. 307, p. 438.Google Scholar