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Robert Allan Mesler III - Searching for the Long-Duration Gamma-Ray Burst Progenitor - 9783319381350 - V9783319381350
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Searching for the Long-Duration Gamma-Ray Burst Progenitor

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Description for Searching for the Long-Duration Gamma-Ray Burst Progenitor paperback. Series: Springer Theses. Num Pages: 124 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, 21 colour illustrations, 5 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: PHU; TTDS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 7. Weight in Grams: 209.

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 ... Read more

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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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
124
Condition
New
Series
Springer Theses
Number of Pages
111
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319381350
SKU
V9783319381350
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15

About Robert Allan Mesler III
Robert Mesler obtained his BS in physics, with minors in math and astronomy, from James Madison University in Virginia. While at JMU, he co-founded the JMU Astronomy Club. He also participated in a summer REU program at East Tennessee State University, where he performed differential photometry on Post-AGB stars and did a little work with the 0.9 meter SARA telescope ... Read more

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