Towards Understanding Gamma-Ray Bursts
| dc.creator | Piran, Tsvi | |
| dc.date | 1995-07-30 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T02:19:57Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T02:19:57Z | |
| dc.description | $γ$-ray bursts (GRBs) have puzzled astronomers since their accidental discovery in the sixties. The BATSE detector on COMPTON-GRO satellite has been detecting GRBs for the last four years at a rate of one burst per day. Its findings has revolutionized our ideas about the nature of these objects. In this lecture I show that the simplest, most conventional and practically inevitable, interpretation of the observations is that GRBs form during the conversion of the kinetic energy of ultra-relativistic particles to radiation. The inner ``engine" that accelerates these particles is well hidden from direct observations and its origin might remain mysterious for a long time. | |
| dc.description | 34 pages, uuencoded also available at ftp://shemesh.fiz.huji.ac.il or at http://shemesh.fiz.huji.ac.il/grb_uns.ps to appear in the Proceedings of ``Some Unsoved Problems in Astrophysics", Princeton April 1995, Eds. J. Bahcall and J. Osriker | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9507114 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9507114 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/10067 | |
| dc.subject | Astrophysics | |
| dc.title | Towards Understanding Gamma-Ray Bursts | |
| dc.type | text |