Gamma-ray Bursts: Prospects for GLAST

Gamma-ray Bursts: Prospects for GLAST
Author: Magnus Axelsson
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2007-05-18
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780735404137

This volume contains the proceedings from a symposium on gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) held in Stockholm, Sweden, in September 2006. All papers have been peer reviewed. The gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) is an international mission dedicated to observations of high-energy gamma-rays and is planned to be launched by the end of 2007.

High Energy Gamma-Ray Emission from Gamma-Ray Bursts - Before GLAST.

High Energy Gamma-Ray Emission from Gamma-Ray Bursts - Before GLAST.
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Release: 2011
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Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are short and intense emission of soft [gamma]-rays, which have fascinated astronomers and astrophysicists since their unexpected discovery in 1960s. The X-ray/optical/radio afterglow observations confirm the cosmological origin of GRBs, support the fireball model, and imply a long-activity of the central engine. The high-energy [gamma]-ray emission (> 20 MeV) from GRBs is particularly important because they shed some lights on the radiation mechanisms and can help us to constrain the physical processes giving rise to the early afterglows. In this work, we review observational and theoretical studies of the high-energy emission from GRBs. Special attention is given to the expected high-energy emission signatures accompanying the canonical early-time X-ray afterglow that was observed by the Swift X-ray Telescope. We also discuss the detection prospect of the upcoming GLAST satellite and the current ground-based Cerenkov detectors.

Very High Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy

Very High Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy
Author: T.C. Weekes
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2003-04-08
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1420033190

High energy gamma-ray photons are the prime probes of the relativistic or high-energy universe, populated by black holes, neutron stars, supernovae, quasars, and matter-antimatter annihilations. Through studying the gamma-ray sky, astrophysicists are able to better understand the formation and behavior of these exotic and energetic bodies. V

Science With The New Generation Of High Energy Gamma-ray Experiments: The Variable Gamma-ray Sources: Their Identifications And Counterparts - Proceedings Of The Fourth Workshop

Science With The New Generation Of High Energy Gamma-ray Experiments: The Variable Gamma-ray Sources: Their Identifications And Counterparts - Proceedings Of The Fourth Workshop
Author: Marco Maria Massai
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2007-10-02
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9814474495

The research program in gamma-ray astronomy focuses on increasing our knowledge of the nature and origin of galactic and extragalactic gamma rays, and understanding high-energy processes in the Sun, celestial objects, interstellar medium, and extragalactic space.This book not only provides an overview of the latest research and future plans for space-borne and ground-based experiments dedicated to the observation of the gamma-ray sky, but also addresses the topic of variable gamma-ray sources from the perspective of their identification and counterparts at different wavelengths. It further gives an overview of the theory related to the most qualified emission processes that take place in these sources and of the nature of their variability.

Gamma-Ray Burst Physics with GLAST.

Gamma-Ray Burst Physics with GLAST.
Author: N. Omodei
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Total Pages: 8
Release: 2006
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The Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) is an international space mission that will study the cosmos in the energy range 10 keV-300 GeV, the upper end of which is one of the last poorly observed region of the celestial electromagnetic spectrum. The ancestor of the GLAST/LAT was the Energetic Gamma Ray Experiment Telescope (EGRET) detector, which flew onboard the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO). The amount of information and the step forward that the high energy astrophysics made thanks to its 9 years of observations are impressive. Nevertheless, EGRET uncovered the tip of the iceberg, raising many questions, and it is in the light of EGRET's results that the great potential of the next generation gamma-ray telescope can be appreciated. GLAST will have an imaging gamma-ray telescope, the Large Area Telescope (LAT) vastly more capable than instruments own previously, as well as a secondary instrument, the GLAST Bursts Monitor, or GBM, to augment the study of gamma-ray bursts. Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) science is one of the most exciting challenges for the GLAST mission, exploring the high energy emission of one of the most intense phenomena in the sky, shading light on various problems: from the acceleration of particles to the emission processes, to more exotic physics like Quantum Gravity effect. In this paper we report the work done so far in the simulation development as well as the study of the LAT sensitivity to GRB.

Multiwavelength Approach to Unidentified Gamma-Ray Sources

Multiwavelength Approach to Unidentified Gamma-Ray Sources
Author: K.S. Cheng
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 436
Release: 2005-12-05
Genre: Science
ISBN: 140203881X

Nearly one half of the point-like gamma-ray sources detected by EGRET instrument of the late Compton satellite are still defeating our attempts at identifying them. To establish the origin and nature of these enigmatic sources has become a major problem of current high-energy astrophysics. The second workshop on Multiwavelength Approach to Unidentified Gamma-ray Sources intends to shed new and fresh light on the problem of the nature of the unidentified gamma-ray sources. The proceedings contain 46 contributed papers in this subject, which cover theoretical models on gamma-ray sources as well as the best multiwavelength strategies for the identification of the promising candidates. The topics of this conference also include energetic phenomena occurring both in galactic and extragalactic scenarios, phenomena that might lead to the appearance of what we have called high-energy unidentified sources. The book will be of interest for all active researchers in the high-energy astrophysics and related research areas as well as for scientists and graduate students interested in understanding the recent progress in high-energy astrophysics.