Gamma-ray bursts 15 years of GRB afterglows : progenitors, environments and host galaxies from the nearby to the early universe

Gamma-ray bursts (GRB) are amongst the most energetic phenomena in the Universe. In 1997 (more than 15 years ago), BeppoSAX allowed the detection of the first GRB X-ray afterglow, leading to the detection of afterglows at other wavelengths (optical, radio) in the following years, probing the cosmolo...

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Otros Autores: Castro-Tirado, A. J. (Alberto J.), editor (editor), Gorosabel, J., editor, Park, I. H., editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Les Ulis : EDP SCIENCES 2012
[2021]
Colección:EAS Publication Series
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009428400006719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • List of Participants
  • Contents
  • Editorial
  • Chapter I. Historical Remarks
  • THE HISTORY OF BATSE
  • EARLY DANISH GRB EXPERIMENTS - AND SOME FOR THE FUTURE?
  • IOFFE INSTITUTE GRB EXPERIMENTS: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
  • Chapter II. Prompt Emission-I Observations
  • FERMI AND SWIFT OBSERVATIONS OF SHORT GRBS
  • TEMPORAL DECOMPOSITION STUDIES OF GRB LIGHTCURVES
  • PHOTOSPHERIC EMISSION FROM GAMMA-RAY BURSTS
  • GRBS OBSERVED BY MAXI
  • SEARCHING FOR GALACTIC SOURCES IN THE SWIFT GRB CATALOG
  • KONUS-WIND OBSERVATION OF THE ULTRA-LUMINOUS GRB 110918A
  • GAMMA-RAY BURSTS: THE DEPENDENCE OF THE SPECTRAL LAG ON THE ENERGY
  • ON THE PROPERTIES OF SPECTRAL LAGS AND PEAK-COUNT RATES OF RHESSI GAMMA-RAY BURSTS
  • FERMI/LAT OBSERVATIONS OF GRB 110625A
  • INTRINSIC PROPERTIES OF SWIFT LONG GAMMA-RAY BURSTS
  • THE MULTI-BAND EMISSION PROFILE IN GRB
  • ON THE PROMPT SIGNALS OF GAMMA RAY BURSTS
  • Chapter III. Prompt Emission-II Theory
  • RADIATIVE MECHANISMS IN GRB PROMPT EMISSION
  • WIDE-BAND SPECTRA OF PROMPT EMISSION
  • GLOBAL PROPERTIES OF HIGH-ENERGY EMISSION FROM GAMMA-RAY BURSTS
  • ON AMATI RELATION FOR GRB PROMPT EMISSION
  • RELATIVISTIC FILAMENTATION INSTABILITY IN AN ARBITRARILY ORIENTED MAGNETIC FIELD
  • Chapter IV. Jet Dynamics
  • GAMMA-RAY BURST JET DYNAMICS
  • COOLING-INDUCED STRUCTURES IN COLLAPSAR ACCRETION DISKS
  • 3D GRB JETS DRILLING THROUGH THE PROGENITOR
  • RADIO AFTERGLOW OF THE JETTED TIDAL DISRUPTION EVENT SWIFT J1644+57
  • MAGNETIC FIELD AMPLIFICATION AND SATURATION BY TURBULENCE IN A RELATIVISTIC SHOCK PR
  • RADIATION FROM ACCELERATED PARTICLES IN RELATIVISTIC JETS WITH SHOCKS, SHEAR-FLOW, AND RECONNECTION
  • ACCELERATION OF MAGNETIZED COLLAPSAR JETS AFTER BREAKOUT
  • GRB PROMPT EMISSION AND THE PHYSICS OF ULTRA-RELATIVISTIC OUTFLOWS
  • Chapter V. Afterglow Emission-I Long GRBs (Observations)
  • LINEAR AND CIRCULAR POLARIMETRY OBSERVATIONS OF GAMMA-RAY BURST AFTERGLOWS
  • IMPLICATIONS OF EARLY TIME OBSERVATIONS OF OPTICAL AFTERGLOWS OF GRBS
  • AN INTRINSIC CORRELATION BETWEEN GRB OPTICAL/UV AFTERGLOW BRIGHTNESS AND DECAY RATE
  • PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF RAPIDLY DECAYING AFTERGLOWS
  • TACKLING THE AFTERGLOW FORWARD-SHOCK MODEL WITH GROND
  • A COMPLETE SAMPLE OF LONG BRIGHT SWIFT GRBS
  • OBSERVING GRB AFTERGLOWS, SNE AND THEIR HOST GALAXIES WITH THE 10.4 M GRAN TELESCOPIO CANARIAS (GTC)
  • STATISTICAL PROPERTIES OF GRB AFTERGLOW PARAMETERS AS EVIDENCE OF COSMOLOGICAL EVOLUTION OF HOST GALAXIES
  • VLT/X-SHOOTER ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY OF THE GRB 120327A AFTERGLOW
  • GRBS FOLLOWED-UP BY THE BOOTES NETWORK
  • CATACLYSMIC VARIABLES AND GAMMA-RAY SOURCES
  • GAMMA-RAY BURST OBSERVATIONS WITH ISON NETWORK
  • MANAGING GRB AFTERGLOWS OPTICAL/IR OBSERVATIONS IN THE WEB 2.0 ERA
  • GRB 110715A: MULTIWAVELENGTH STUDY OF THE FIRST GAMMA-RAY BURST OBSERVED WITH ALMA
  • COLOR INDICES OF OPTICAL AFTERGLOWS OF LONG GRBS IN THE SWIFT ERA
  • A CASE STUDY OF DARK GRB 051008
  • MILLIMETRE OBSERVATIONS OF GAMMA-RAY BURSTS AT IRAM
  • Chapter VI. Afterglow Emission-II (Theory)
  • GRB AFTERGLOW
  • THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF THE FIREBALL SCENARIO
  • SIMILARITIES: GRB 940217, GBR 090926A AND GRB 980923
  • Chapter VII. Short GRBs
  • MULTI-WAVELENGTH OBSERVATIONS OF SHORT-DURATION GAMMA-RAY BURSTS: RECENT RESULTS
  • SHORT DURATION GAMMA-RAY BURST WITH EXTENDED EMISSION
  • SHORT GRB AFTERGLOWS OBSERVED WITH GROND
  • GRB EMISSION IN NEUTRON STAR TRANSITIONS
  • SPECTRAL EVOLUTION OF SHORT GRBS ON SUB-MILLISECOND TIME SCALE
  • NUCLEOSYNTHESIS FROM LGRB-TYPE ACCRETION DISKS
  • A GTC STUDY OF THE AFTERGLOW AND HOST GALAXY OF THE SHORT-DURATION GRB 100816A
  • HIGH-ENERGY EMISSION IN SHORT GRBS AND THE ROLE OF MAGNETAR CENTRAL ENGINES
  • Chapter VIII. Progenitors and Environments
  • DISSECTING THE GRB ENVIRONMENT WITH OPTICAL AND X-RAY OBSERVATIONS
  • EARLY UV/OPTICAL EMISSION OF THE TYPE IB SN 2008D
  • THE CIRCUMSTELLAR MEDIUM SURROUNDING ROTATING MASSIVE STARS AS GRB PRECURSORS
  • GRB AFTERGLOWS: A STORY YET TO BE WRITTEN
  • Chapter IX. Host Galaxies
  • THE COSMIC EVOLUTION OF GAMMA-RAY BURST HOST GALAXIES
  • KECK OBSERVATIONS OF 160 GAMMA-RAY BURST HOST GALAXIES
  • THE REDSHIFT DISTRIBUTION OF THE TOUGH SURVEY
  • GRB-SN CONNECTION IN SAO RAS OBSERVATIONS
  • X-SHOOTER SLIT OBSERVATIONS OF GRB HOST GALAXIES
  • ON THE METAL AVERSION OF LGRBS
  • PROBING GALAXY EVOLUTION WITH GAMMA-RAY BURSTS
  • THE MASS-SFR-METALLICITY RELATION OF STAR FORMING GALAXIES AND ITS EVOLUTION: IMPLICATIONS FOR GRB/SN HOST GALAXIES
  • A DEEP SEARCH FOR THE HOST GALAXIES OF GRBS WITH NO DETECTED OPTICAL AFTERGLOW
  • STUDY OF BTA, HUBBLE, AND SPITZER GRB 021004 DEEP FIELDS
  • THE MULTI-BAND STUDY OF THE ENVIRONMENT OF THE RC J0311+0507 RADIO GALAXY: A STEP FORWARD TO UNDERSTAND MASSIVE STELLAR SYSTEM FORMATION AT Z > 4
  • GRB HOST GALAXIES: A FASCINATING RESEARCH FIELD
  • Chapter X. Instrumentation and Techniques-I (Ongoing Projects)
  • RECENT PROGRESS ON GRBS WITH SWIFT
  • THE INTERPLANETARY NETWORK
  • STATUS AND PERSPECTIVES OF MINI-MEGATORTORA WIDE-FIELD MONITORING SYSTEM WITH HIGH TEMPORAL RESOLUTION
  • STATUS OF THE BOOTES-IR PROJECT AT OSN FOR GRB NEAR-IR FOLLOW-UP
  • PHOTOMETRIC OBSERVATIONS OF GRB080605 BY BOOTES-1B AND BOOTES-2
  • STATUS OF PI OF THE SKY TELESCOPES IN SPAIN AND CHILE
  • GLORIA - THE GLOBAL ROBOTIC TELESCOPES INTELLIGENT ARRAY FOR E-SCIENCE
  • STATUS UPDATE OF THE WA
  • SWIFT PUBLICATION STATISTICS AND THE COMPARISON WITH OTHER MAJOR OBSERVATORIES
  • ASTRONOMICAL HOSTING IN CENTRAL ASIA
  • Chapter XI. Instrumentation & Techniques-II (Lomonosov/UFFO)
  • ULTRA-FAST FLASH OBSERVATORY: FAST RESPONSE SPACE MISSIONS FOR EARLY TIME PHASE OF GAMMA RAY BURSTS
  • THE ULTRA FAST FLASH OBSERVATORY PATHFINDER - UFFO-P GRB IMAGING AND LOCATION WITH ITS CODED MASK X-RAY IMAGER UBAT V. Reglero1
  • DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION AND PERFORMANCE OF THE DETECTOR FOR UFFO BURST ALERT & TRIGGER TELESCOPE
  • THE CALIBRATION AND SIMULATION OF THE GRB TRIGGER DETECTOR OF THE ULTRA FAST FLASH OBSERVATORY
  • THE SLEWING MIRROR TELESCOPE AND THE DATA-ACQUISITION SYSTEM
  • SPACE EXPERIMENTS ON-BOARD OF LOMONOSOV MISSION TO STUDY GAMMA-RAY BURSTS AND UHECRS
  • BDRG AND SHOK INSTRUMENTS FOR STUDY OF GRB PROMPT EMISSION IN MICHAYLO LOMONOSOV SPACE MISSION
  • DEVELOPMENT OF SLEWING MIRROR TELESCOPE OPTICAL SYSTEM FOR THE UFFO-PATHFINDER
  • DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF ELECTRONICS AND DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEM FOR ULTRA-FAST FLASH OBSERVATORY
  • DEVELOPMENT OF MOTORIZED SLEWING MIRROR STAGE FOR THE UFFO PROJECT
  • IN-FLIGHT CALIBRATIONS OF UFFO-PATHFINDER
  • Chapter XII. Cosmology and Early Universe
  • GAMMA-RAY BURSTS AND THE FIRST STARS
  • A COMMON BEHAVIOR IN THE LATE X-RAY AFTERGLOW OF ENERGETIC GRB-SN SYSTEMS
  • Chapter XIII. Instrumentation & Techniques-III Future Projects x
  • X-RAY AND GAMMA-RAY POLARIMETRY OF GRBS
  • GRBS AND LOBSTER EYE X-RAY TELESCOPES
  • OBSERVING GRBS WITH THE LOFT WIDE FIELD MONITOR
  • A-STAR: THE ALL-SKY TRANSIENT ASTROPHYSICS REPORTER
  • FEASIBILITY OF A SMALL, RAPID OPTICAL/IR RESPONSE, NEXT GENERATION GAMMA-RAY BURST MISSION
  • GRB POTENTIAL OF ESA GAIA
  • Chapter XIV. Non Electromagnetics, VHE and UHE Emission
  • CONSTRAINING GRB AS SOURCE FOR UHE COSMIC RAYS THROUGH NEUTRINO OBSERVATIONS
  • FERMI GBM CAPABILITIES FOR MULTI-MESSENGER TIME-DOMAIN ASTRONOMY
  • COSMIC-RAYS AND GAMMA RAY BURSTS
  • CONCLUDING REMARKS
  • Index