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Searching For The Long-duration Gamma-ray Burst Progenitor by Robert Allan Mesler III, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

From Robert Allan Mesler III

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Searching For The Long-duration Gamma-ray Burst Progenitor by Robert Allan Mesler III, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
Searching For The Long-duration Gamma-ray Burst Progenitor by Robert Allan Mesler III, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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Searching For The Long-duration Gamma-ray Burst Progenitor by Robert Allan Mesler III, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

From Robert Allan Mesler III

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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. | Searching For The Long-duration Gamma-ray Burst Progenitor by Robert Allan Mesler III, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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