'Ray bursts' presentation slideshows

VIEWS OF OUR UNIVERSE UNIT: Electromagnetic Spectrum/Waves Notes

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High Energy Neutrino Astronomy

High Energy Neutrino Astronomy. Gisela Anton LAUNCH 09 Heidelberg, November 10 th , 2009. Content. Introduction to high energy neutrino astronomy Neutrino-Telescopes: IceCube and ANTARES Selected results Future perspectives of IceCube und KM3NeT.

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Papers to read

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Chapter 13 Black Holes

Chapter 13 Black Holes. Black Holes. The mass of a neutron star cannot exceed about 3 solar masses. If a core remnant is more massive than that, nothing will stop its collapse, and it will become smaller and smaller and denser and denser.

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Supernovae Supernova Remnants Gamma-Ray Bursts

0. Supernovae Supernova Remnants Gamma-Ray Bursts. 0. Summary of Post-Main-Sequence Evolution of Stars. Supernova. Fusion proceeds; formation of Fe core. Subsequent ignition of nuclear reactions involving heavier elements. M > 8 M sun. Fusion stops at formation of C,O core. M < 4 M sun.

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Joint BAT and XRT Data Analysis for Gamma-Ray Bursts

Joint BAT and XRT Data Analysis for Gamma-Ray Bursts. Enwei Liang Co-authors: Youdong Hu, Fangkun Peng, Bing Zhang, Xiang-Yu Wang, Xuefeng Wu GXU-NAOC Center for Astrophysics & Space Sciences IHEP, 2014- 03-22. Outlines.

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One of earliest confirmation of the GRB discovery was obtained on January 17, 1972 using the Kosmos-461 data (Mazets et

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Portable MPI and Related Parallel Development Tools

Portable MPI and Related Parallel Development Tools. Rusty Lusk Mathematics and Computer Science Division Argonne National Laboratory (The rest of our group: Bill Gropp, Rob Ross, David Ashton, Brian Toonen, Anthony Chan). Outline . MPI What is it? Where did it come from?

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Neutron Stars 2: Phenomenology

Neutron Stars 2: Phenomenology. Chandra x-ray images of the PWNs surrounding the ( A ) Crab and ( B ) Vela pulsars. [Credit: NASA/CXC/Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, NASA/Pennsylvania State University, and G. Pavlov] . Andreas Reisenegger ESO Visiting Scientist

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1. White Dwarf If initial star mass < 8 M Sun or so. (and remember: Maximum WD mass is 1.4 M Sun , radius i

Final States of a Star. 1. White Dwarf If initial star mass < 8 M Sun or so. (and remember: Maximum WD mass is 1.4 M Sun , radius is about that of the Earth) 2. Neutron Star If initial mass > 8 M Sun and < 25 M Sun . 3. Black Hole

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Neutron Stars and Black Holes

0. Neutron Stars and Black Holes. Chapter 11:. 0. Neutron Stars. A supernova explosion of an M > 8 M sun star blows away its outer layers. . P ressure becomes so high that electrons and protons combine to form stable neutrons throughout the object.

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Massive Stars as the Progenitors of (long) Gamma-Ray Bursts

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Current-Driven Kink Instability in Magnetically Dominated Rotating Relativistic Jets

Current-Driven Kink Instability in Magnetically Dominated Rotating Relativistic Jets. Yosuke Mizuno Institute of Astronomy National Tsing-Hua University Collaborators Y. Lyubarsky (Ben-Gurion Univ), P. E. Hardee (Univ. of Alabama), K.-I. Nishikawa (NSSTC/ Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville).

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Neutrino and e-/e+ pair emission from Phase-transition-induced Collapse Neutron Stars

Neutrino and e-/e+ pair emission from Phase-transition-induced Collapse Neutron Stars. K S Cheng Department of Physics University of Hong Kong. Collaborators: W.M. Suen (Wash. U) Lap-Ming Lin (CUHK) T.Harko & R. Tian (HKU). Introduction.

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GLAST Burst Monitor

GLAST Burst Monitor. Charles Meegan Principal Investigator NASA MSFC Charles.Meegan@msfc.nasa.gov Steve Elrod Project Manager NASA MSFC Steve.Elrod@msfc.nasa.gov. GBM Mission Statement.

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ASTR220 Collisions in Space

ASTR220 Collisions in Space. Prof. Derek Richardson Office: CSS1249 Phone: 301-405-8786 Email: dcr@astro.umd.edu Office hours: After class or by appointment. The Antennae (HST). The Antennae (composite). Course topics. Collisions in the Solar system Formation of the solar system

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Foiling the plum pudding model

Explained by Bart Newell, Daniel Bailey, and Lee Box. Foiling the plum pudding model. Before radiation. After radiation. The first three isolated types of radiation.

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Gamma-Ray Bursts

Gamma-Ray Bursts. Discovered by DoD satellites searching for signs of atmospheric nuclear testing irregular bursts of gamma-ray radiation lasting from milliseconds to seconds originally thought to be more energetic versions of X-ray bursts

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