ASTROPHYSICS: The First Bursts

Beams, Bursts, Bubbles, and Bullets: Relativistic Outflows in Astrophysics

Astrophysics. Robotic telescopes catch up with gamma ray bursts.

ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS Highlights of the Rome Workshop on Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Afterglow Era

I review some of the highlights of the Rome Workshop on Gamma-Ray Bursts, and discuss some of the questions these results pose about the nature and origin of gamma-ray bursts.

Astronomy and Astrophysics a Jet-disk Symbiosis Model for Gamma Ray Bursts: Ss 433 the Next?

We consider a jet-disk symbiosis model to explain Gamma Ray Bursts and their afterglows. It is proposed that GRBs are created inside a pre-existing jet from a neutron star which collapses to a black hole due to massive accretion. In our model we assume that the initial energy due to this transition is all deposited in the jet by magnetic fields, using fully well explored concepts from jets and ...

Gamma-Ray Bursts: frontier astrophysics with the most extreme cosmic explosions