GAMMA-RAY BURSTS IN THE SWIFT ERA: Sixteenth Maryland Astrophysics Conference

Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Swift Era

Stephen S. Holt, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, Needham, MA, USA ; Neil Gehrels, NASA, Goodard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA ; John A. Nousek, Pennsylvania State University, 525 Davey Lab, University Park, PA, USA

Conference Location and Date: Washington, DC, 29 November - 2 December 2005

Subseries: Astronomy and Astrophysics

Published May 2006; ISBN 0-7354-0326-0, One Volume, Print; 752 pages; 6 3/8 X 9 1/4 inches; Hardcover; $205.00

Readership: Researchers and graduate students in astronomy and astrophysics, particularly high energy astrophysics.

This is the sixteenth conference of the current series of annual October Astrophysics Conferences in Maryland. It was devoted to the discussion of gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful explosions since the Big Bang. Results from the newly launched Swift mission and other observatories are solving the mysteries of the origin of the bursts. Over 250 scientists from the international astronomical community gathered to debate the meaning of the recent discoveries.

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