Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Notation
- 1 Superluminal motion in the quasar 3C273
- 2 Curved spacetime and SgrA*
- 3 Parallel transport and isometry of tangent bundles
- 4 Maxwell's equations
- 5 Riemannian curvature
- 6 Gravitational radiation
- 7 Cosmological event rates
- 8 Compressible fluid dynamics
- 9 Waves in relativistic magnetohydrodynamics
- 10 Nonaxisymmetric waves in a torus
- 11 Phenomenology of GRB supernovae
- 12 Kerr black holes
- 13 Luminous black holes
- 14 A luminous torus in gravitational radiation
- 15 GRB supernovae from rotating black holes
- 16 Observational opportunities for LIGO and Virgo
- 17 Epilogue: GRB/XRF singlets, doublets? Triplets!
- Appendix A Landau's derivation of a maximal mass
- Appendix B Thermodynamics of luminous black holes
- Appendix C Spin–orbit coupling in the ergotube
- Appendix D Pair creation in a Wald field
- Appendix E Black hole spacetimes in the complex plan
- Appendix F Some units, constants and numbers
- References
- Index
11 - Phenomenology of GRB supernovae
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 August 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Notation
- 1 Superluminal motion in the quasar 3C273
- 2 Curved spacetime and SgrA*
- 3 Parallel transport and isometry of tangent bundles
- 4 Maxwell's equations
- 5 Riemannian curvature
- 6 Gravitational radiation
- 7 Cosmological event rates
- 8 Compressible fluid dynamics
- 9 Waves in relativistic magnetohydrodynamics
- 10 Nonaxisymmetric waves in a torus
- 11 Phenomenology of GRB supernovae
- 12 Kerr black holes
- 13 Luminous black holes
- 14 A luminous torus in gravitational radiation
- 15 GRB supernovae from rotating black holes
- 16 Observational opportunities for LIGO and Virgo
- 17 Epilogue: GRB/XRF singlets, doublets? Triplets!
- Appendix A Landau's derivation of a maximal mass
- Appendix B Thermodynamics of luminous black holes
- Appendix C Spin–orbit coupling in the ergotube
- Appendix D Pair creation in a Wald field
- Appendix E Black hole spacetimes in the complex plan
- Appendix F Some units, constants and numbers
- References
- Index
Summary
“Since you are now studying geometry and trigonometry, I will give you a problem. A ship sails the ocean. It left Boston with a cargo of wool. It grosses 200 tons. It is bound for Le Havre. The mainmast is broken, the cabin boy is on deck, there are 12 passengers aboard, the wind is blowing East-North-East, the clock points to a quarter past three in the afternoon. It is the month of May. How old is the captain?”
Gustave Flaubert (1821–80), in a letter to his sister Cavoline, 1843.Discovery of GRBs. Gamma-ray bursts were serendipitously discovered by the nuclear test-ban monitoring satellites Vela (US), (Figure 11.1) and Konus (USSR). Soon afterwards, it became clear that these events were not thermonuclear experiments of terrestrial origin, but rather a new astrophysical transient in the sky. These data were first released in 1973 by R. Klebesadel, I. Strong and R. Olson[296] and in 1974 by E. P. Mazets, S. V. Golenetskü and V. N. Ilinskii[368]. The first detection of a gamma-ray burst in the Vela archives is GRB 670702 (Figure 11.2). In the footsteps of Vela and Konus, a number of other gamma-ray burst detection experiments and missions were conducted[12]: Apollo 16, Helios 2, HEAO-1, International Sun Earth Explorer 3, Orbiting Geophysical Observatory 3 and 5, Orbiting Solar Observatory 67–8, Prognoz 6–7, Pioneer Venus Orbiter (1978–92), Konus and SIGNE on Venera 11–12 and Wind, Transient Gamma-ray Spectrometer (TGRS) on Wind, SIGNE 3, Solar Maximum Mission (1980–89), Solrad 11AB, MIR Space Station, GINGA, WATCH and SIGMA on GRANAT and EURECA, and Ulysses.
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