Gamma-ray bursts as a probe of cosmology
Abstract
We show that, if the long GRBs are produced by the collapse of massive stars, GRBs and their afterglows may provide a powerful probe of cosmology and the early universe. .
- Publication:
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20th Texas Symposium on relativistic astrophysics
- Pub Date:
- October 2001
- DOI:
- 10.1063/1.1419621
- arXiv:
- arXiv:astro-ph/0109037
- Bibcode:
- 2001AIPC..586..605L
- Keywords:
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- 98.70.Rz;
- 98.80.Es;
- 97.10.Bt;
- 97.60.Bw;
- 97.60.Lf;
- 98.62.Py;
- gamma-ray sources;
- gamma-ray bursts;
- Observational cosmology;
- Star formation;
- Supernovae;
- Black holes;
- Distances redshifts radial velocities;
- spatial distribution of galaxies;
- Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- To appear in Procs. of the 20th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics, 6 pages, 5 figures, LaTeX