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Searching for the Long-Duration Gamma-Ray Burst Progenitor (Hardcover, 2014 ed.): Robert Allan Mesler III

Searching for the Long-Duration Gamma-Ray Burst Progenitor (Hardcover, 2014 ed.)

Robert Allan Mesler III

Series: Springer Theses

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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.

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Imprint: Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin: Switzerland
Series: Springer Theses
Release date: July 2014
First published: 2014
Authors: Robert Allan Mesler III
Dimensions: 235 x 155 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 111
Edition: 2014 ed.
ISBN-13: 978-3-319-06625-7
Categories: Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > General
Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Applied mathematics > General
Books > Professional & Technical > Other technologies > Space science > Astronautics
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LSN: 3-319-06625-0
Barcode: 9783319066257

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