Volume: 19, Issue: 15(2004)
pp. 2385-2472 DOI: 10.1142/S0217751X0401746X
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GAMMA-RAY BURSTS: PROGRESS, PROBLEMS & PROSPECTS
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| Author(s): |
BING ZHANG
Also Canadian Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics.
Department of Astronomy &
Astrophysics, The Pennsylvania State University, 525 Davey Lab,
University Park, PA 16802, USAPETER MÉSZÁROS
Also Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University; currently on
leave at The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton NJ 08540.
Department of Astronomy &
Astrophysics, The Pennsylvania State University, 525 Davey Lab,
University Park, PA 16802, USA
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Received 16 November 2003
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| Abstract: |
The cosmological gamma-ray burst (GRB) phenomenon is reviewed. The
broad observational facts and empirical phenomenological relations of
the GRB prompt emission and afterglow are outlined. A well-tested,
successful fireball shock model is introduced in a pedagogical
manner. Several important uncertainties in the current understanding
of the phenomenon are reviewed, and prospects of how future
experiments and extensive observational and theoretical efforts may
address these problems are discussed. |
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Gamma-ray bursts; high energy astrophysics; cosmology
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