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Gamma-ray Bursts
Chryssa Kouveliotou
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Description for Gamma-ray Bursts
hardcover. A comprehensive graduate-level review of GRB astrophysics and its history, featuring the latest research by an international team of experts. Editor(s): Kouveliotou, Chryssa; Wijers, Ralph A. M. J.; Woosley, Stan. Series: Cambridge Astrophysics. Num Pages: 358 pages, 113 b/w illus. 9 colour illus. 8 tables. BIC Classification: PHVB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 179 x 248 x 21. Weight in Grams: 872. Series: Cambridge Astrophysics. 358 pages, 113 b/w illus. 9 colour illus. 8 tables. Editor(s): Kouveliotou, Chryssa; Woosley, Stanford E.; Wijers, Ralph A. M. J. A comprehensive graduate-level review of GRB astrophysics and its history, featuring the latest research by an international team of experts. Cateogry: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: PHVB. Dimension: 179 x 248 x 21. Weight: 872.
Cosmic gamma ray bursts (GRBs) have fascinated scientists and the public alike since their discovery in the late 1960s. Their story is told here by some of the scientists who participated in their discovery and, after many decades of false starts, solved the problem of their origin. Fourteen chapters by active researchers in the field present a detailed history of the discovery, a comprehensive theoretical description of GRB central engine and emission models, a discussion of GRB host galaxies and a guide to how GRBs can be used as cosmological tools. Observations are grouped into three sets from the satellites ... Read more
Cosmic gamma ray bursts (GRBs) have fascinated scientists and the public alike since their discovery in the late 1960s. Their story is told here by some of the scientists who participated in their discovery and, after many decades of false starts, solved the problem of their origin. Fourteen chapters by active researchers in the field present a detailed history of the discovery, a comprehensive theoretical description of GRB central engine and emission models, a discussion of GRB host galaxies and a guide to how GRBs can be used as cosmological tools. Observations are grouped into three sets from the satellites ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
358
Condition
New
Series
Cambridge Astrophysics
Number of Pages
358
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521662093
SKU
V9780521662093
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About Chryssa Kouveliotou
Dr Chryssa Kouveliotou joined the Gamma Ray Astrophysics Team at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in 1991. She has received the Rossi Prize of the American Astronomical Society and the Descartes Prize of the European Union for her work on magnetars and gamma ray bursts. Professor Ralph Wijers is the Director of the Astronomical Institute - Anton Pannekoek, and holds ... Read more
Reviews for Gamma-ray Bursts
'… the editors and authors are to be congratulated at managing to squeeze so much into a modest-sized volume. … I strongly recommend it to anyone interested in how the most luminous objects in the Universe work.' The Observatory