GAMMA-RAY BURSTS: 30 YEARS OF DISCOVERY: Gamma-Ray Burst Symposium

Gamma-Ray Burst Symposium

Ed Fenimore, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA ; M. Galassi, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA

Conference Location and Date: Santa Fe, New Mexico, 8-12 September 2003

Subseries: Astronomy and Astrophysics

Published October 2004; ISBN 0-7354-0208-6, One Volume, Print; 804 pages; 6 3/8 X 9 1/4 inches; Hardcover; $215.00

Readership: Gamma-ray burst researchers; teachers, professors, and graduate students in high energy astrophysics, cosmology, the early universe, and supernova; historians of science

In the last thirty years, gamma-ray bursts have grown from an oddity to a central position in astrophysics. Not only are they the largest explosions since the big bang, capable of flooding most of the universe with gamma-rays, but their brilliance serves as a backlight that can illuminate the cosmos far deeper into the early universe than any other object. Their unpredictability has forced researchers to use extreme measures to observe them: completely autonomous satellites and robotic ground-based telescopes. Their bizarre physical properties have pushed us to develop new theories of astrophysical explosions. Topics include: global properties of GRBs; X-ray flashes; ultra-high energy gamma-rays, neutrinos, gravity waves; prompt emission and early afterglows; relativistic jets and polarization; GRB030329; GRB progenitors; GRB connection to supernovae; dark versus bright GRBs; late afterglows; GRBs and cosmology; general observations; general theory; analysis and observation techniques; present statellites; Swift satellite; future satellites; and robotic observing systems.

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