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  title info:
    title: Searching for the Long-Duration Gamma-Ray Burst Progenitor
  name:
    name part: Mesler III, Robert Allan.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIII, 111 p. 25 illus., 21 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: Nominated as an outstanding thesis by the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of New Mexico, this thesis seeks to identify the gamma-ray burst (GRB) progenitor. GRBs are extragalactic explosions that briefly outshine entire galaxies, but the mechanism that can release that much energy over a < 100 second burst is still a mystery. The leading candidate for the GRB progenitor is currently a massive star which collapses to form a black hole–accretion disk system that powers the GRB. GRB afterglows, however, do not always show the expected behavior of a relativistic blast wave interacting with the stellar wind that such a progenitor should have produced before its collapse. In this book, the author uses the Zeus-MP astrophysical hydrodynamics code to model the environment around a stellar progenitor prior to the burst. He then develops a new semi-analytic MHD and emission model to produce light curves for GRBs encountering these realistic density profiles. The work ultimately shows that the circumburst medium surrounding a GRB at the time of the explosion is much more complex than a pure wind, and that observed afterglows are entirely consistent with a large subset of proposed stellar progenitors.
  table of contents: Introduction -- Gamma-ray Bursts in Circumstellar Shells -- Population III Gamma-ray Bursts -- VLBI and Archival VLA and WSRT Observations of GRB 030329 -- Calorimetry of GRB 030329 -- Conclusions -- Appendices.
  note: by Robert Allan Mesler III.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Space sciences
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Mathematical Methods in Physics
  classification: QB495-500.269
  classification: 520
  classification: 500.5
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      title: Springer eBooks
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  identifier: 9783319066264
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06626-4
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    record creation date: 140528
    record change date: 20151030001209.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-06626-4