Link to Charts |
Fortunately, the Optical Transient fades a bit more slowly. Click here for 10 minutes in the life of an optical GRB transient. |
Solved and unsolved mysteries of Gamma Ray Bursts: an overview of afterglows. |
or Visit the GRB Documents page |
Key Questions: Where do they come from? Answer: from every direction in the cosmos, and they come from very far away. How can the energy output of thousands of millions of galaxies be expended so quickly? A supernova requires weeks to fully expend it's energy! Answer: Unknown. What can power such outbursts? Answer: Unknown, although the explosions may come from death of massive stars. Another theory suggests the burst is triggered by a massive star collapse into a black hole. Please welcome the term collapsar to the expanding universe of our language. Recent evidence from Hubble suggests a link with Supernovae. Soft Bursters operating in the hard X-Ray region of the spectrum have also been detected. Current theory again has expanded the language to include the new word magnetar. For more information, please check out the following links. |
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Key Questions: Where do they come from? Answer: from every direction in the cosmos, and they come from very far away. How can the energy output of thousands of millions of galaxies be expended so quickly? A supernova requires weeks to fully expend it's energy! Answer: Unknown. What can power such outbursts? Answer: Unknown, although the explosions may come from death of massive stars. Another theory suggests the burst is triggered by a massive star collapse into a black hole. Please welcome the term collapsar to the expanding universe of our language. Recent evidence from Hubble suggests a link with Supernovae. Soft Bursters operating in the hard X-Ray region of the spectrum have also been detected. Current theory again has expanded the language to include the new word magnetar. For more information, please check out the following links. |
or Visit the GRB Documents page |
Solved and unsolved mysteries of Gamma Ray Bursts: an overview of afterglows. |
Fortunately, the Optical Transient fades a bit more slowly. Click here for 10 minutes in the life of an optical GRB transient. |
Link to Charts |