1996/07/08 by Tsvi Piran
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Physics and Astronomy · #Earth Systems and Cosmic Evolution #Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae #Relativity and Gravitational Theory #astro-ph #gr-qc
paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/bf02113771
7 pages, 4th prize in this years gravity essay competition to appear in General Relativity and Gravitation. Complete PS file is available at ftp://shemesh.fiz.huji.ac.il or at http://shemesh.fiz.huji.ac.il/papers/essay96.uu
arxiv created 1996/07/08 · openalex publication_date 1996/12/01 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
Gamma ray Bursts (GRBs) - short bursts of few hundred keV γ-rays - have fascinated astronomers since their accidental discovery in the sixties. GRBs were ignored by most relativists who did not expect that they are associated with any relativistic phenomenon. The recent observations of the BATSE detector on the Compton GRO satellite have revolutionized our ideas on these bursts and the picture that emerges shows that GRBs are the most relativistic objects discovered so far.