lFACHBEREICH NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN BERGISCHE UNIVERSITÄT WUPPERTAL Search for Poorly Localized Gamma-Ray Bursts in AMANDA-II Data
ii ii Für meinen Vater. ii The AMANDA detector was built between 1995 and 2000 at the geographic South Pole with its main purpose to detect high-energy neutrinos from astrophysical sources. The de-tection of neutrinos in temporal and directional coincidence with photons from gamma ray bursts (GRBs)...
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| Summary: | ii ii Für meinen Vater. ii The AMANDA detector was built between 1995 and 2000 at the geographic South Pole with its main purpose to detect high-energy neutrinos from astrophysical sources. The de-tection of neutrinos in temporal and directional coincidence with photons from gamma ray bursts (GRBs) is of special interest for the basic understanding of the physical processes that cause GRBs and in addition would identify GRBs as possible sources of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays. The first part of this work contains a brief summary of the current observational facts and empirical relations found for the characteristics of GRB, followed by an introduction to the widely accepted theoretical model explaining most of the observations: the relativis-tic fireball model. Design and principle of operation of gamma-ray detectors mounted |
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